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STORIES
Mapping of air pollution
To use the air ambient data meaningfully, the Central Pollution Control Board
(CPCB), India has initiated a 10-year programme in collaboration with Nagpur-based
National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI). The project will
be funded by the CPCB and leading oil companies. Besides locating high pollution
areas, the project will undertake mapping technology, which will focus on health
benefits in cleaner areas. The findings, after mapping the city, would be converted
into an action plan to reduce pollution in each area..
Japan donates P4-M worth of geo-hazard mapping equipment
Japan has turned over P4-million worth of equipment for geo-hazard mapping on April 4 to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). The equipment is expected to boost the department's six-year geo-hazard assessment program that will create a map identifying the disaster-prone areas in the country, particularly those places where flood and landslides would most likely occur..
ESRI and Planning 2.0 introduce Business Analyst Online for health
ESRI and the health care software company Planning 2.0 announced on April 6, the release of Business Analyst Online for Health, a one-stop shop for health care providers and hospitals in the United States seeking strategic planning and marketing information applications. This combines GIS technology with extensive demographic, consumer expenditure, and hospital discharge information as well as DRG (Diagnostic Related Groups) and ICD-9 (International Classification of Disease) codes from Planning 2.0..
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CONFERENCE REPORT
Map Middle East 2006
The Second Annual Middle East Conference on Geospatial Information, Technologies and Applications was held at the Dubai World Trade Centre from March 26 to 29. Organized by GIS Development and Dubai Municipality the event witnessed participation from more than 1,000 delegates from around 41 countries, strengthening its position as the regional forum for the Middle East geospatial community.
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INTERVIEW
 Prof. David Rhind
Vice Chancellor
City University, London
Prof. David Rhind is Vice-Chancellor of the City University, London. He has been involved in GIS since 1969. His background is a varied one, ranging through earth and social sciences and computing. His previous role was as Director General of Ordnance Survey, the national mapping organization of UK. In this interview, taken on the occasion of Map Middle East 2006 conference in Dubai (March 26-29, Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai, UAE), Prof. Rhind shares his experiences of the conference with GIS Development.
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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Updating geo-information in a heterogeneous networked environment – Experiences and evaluation of OpenGIS Web Feature Services
T.J. Brentjens
GIS Technology, OTB/TBM, TU Delft, The Netherlands
M.E. de Vries, C.W. Quak, C. Vijlbrief
GIS Technology, OTB/TBM, TU Delft, The Netherlands
P.J.M. van Oosterom
Kadaster, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
With the availability of the standard OpenGIS Web Feature Server (WFS) protocol, it is now possible, for the first time ever, to realize Internet based geo-information processing environments, which include multiple servers offering data layers and different client types specifying the updates.
Open
Source and free GIS: A way out?
Paolo Cavallini
Faunalia, Italy
This study is a multi-spectral and multi-sensor evaluation of thermal infra-red imagery for micro-climate monitoring in two densely built high rise towns in the new territories of Hong Kong. Satellite-based studies provide recommendations for building design and landscaping of urban developments, to minimise heat accumulation and retention by urban surfaces, and thus the accumulation of warm, polluted and stale air in the city.
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 CORPORATE
Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging announces partnership with GeoCue Corporation
Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging announced a strategic development agreement with GeoCue Corporation (NIIRS10) of Huntsville, Alabama on April 3. The product of this relationship, called Leica Ortho Accelerator, is an enterprise-enabled geospatial process management system for digital orthophoto production.
AppFusion, Farallon Geographics announce partnership for geospatial analysis
Acquis Inc., dealing in Enterprise Location software, and Farallon GeograAppFusion, a services provider and integrator in GIS, have announced a strategic partnership that will deliver a new level of integration between Business Intelligence and GIS in the form of spatially enabled Management Dashboards.
NEW PRODUCTS
Trimble introduces new smart GPS timing antenna for network synchronization
Trimble introduced on April 3, the GPS timing receivers-the Acutime Gold GPS smart antenna that provides a pulse-per-second output synchronized to UTC within 15 nanoseconds (one sigma). It is a solution for adding GPS timing and synchronization into any application where ease of installation and long-term reliability is critical.
PCI Geomatics develops SAR Polarimetry Workstation
PCI Geomatics announced on March 31, the development and release of the SAR Polarimetry Workstation (SPW) as part of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Earth Observation Application Development Program (EOADP). The SPW is available as an add-on module to Geomatica 10, an image-centric geospatial software.
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