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Daratech study points to public sector surpassing regulated sector on geospatial software spending
Daratech has provided estimates which indicates that public sector spending on GIS/Geospatial software will surpass the regulated sector for the first time in 2006...
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East View Cartographic acquires unique geological map collection from Telberg
This collection, purchased from the Telberg Geological Map Service, contains thousands of unique items from regions such as China, Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America...
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GRACE data shows Greenland’s ice sheet melting at faster rate
The Greenland Ice Sheet the second largest ice cap on Earth is now melting twice as fast than in the preceding five years...
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Map shows how people feel as they navigate city streets
A research project using GPS and lie detection technology is helping build maps that show how people feel as they navigate city streets…
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WORLD THIS
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Synthetic aperture laser radar for tactical imagery demonstrated successfully by Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully designed, built and flight demonstrated one of the world's first synthetic aperture laser radar systems...
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I/Records Explorer from Intergraph now available
Intergraph Corporation announced the availability of I/Records Explorer, a new technology to assist law enforcement personnel…
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GRASS version 6.1.0 released
A new technology preview version of GRASS GIS has been released in preparation for the next benchmark release...
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US Census Bureau ready to release data on income, poverty and health insurance
The U.S. Census Bureau will release the consolidated report on money income, poverty and health insurance coverage for the nation…
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EDITORIAL
The future is bright and future is here – ‘…public sector spending on GIS/Geospatial software will surpass the regulated sector for the first time in 2006’ says a market research and assessment report from Daratech. Read in isolation, news tit-bits such as - ‘ street level maps available for 150 Indian cities’, - ‘High-resolution 3D map of Europe to be ready by 2007’, - ‘..comprehensive AVL and MDRV solution to be made available..’, do not offer a realistic picture of the extent of business being generated almost daily in the geospatial domain, but on a global scale it directly lends credence to forecasts that ‘the public sector will grow 11% in 2006 as compared to a 4% growth in the regulated sector’.
On the technology front, the Synthetic Aperture Laser Radar, baptised ‘Synthetic Aperture Ladar for Tactical Imaging’ (SALTI) by the DARPA and built by Northrop Grumman has been field tested and certified. This SAR offers the long-range, day/night operational ability afforded by conventional SAR with the ease-of-interpretability of high-resolution optical imaging. The cherry is, the exploitability of three-dimensional imagery. Primarily developed for the killing fields, the SALTI will, like most earlier defence technologies, be applied for civilian applications very soon – market forces will demand it.
Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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A Cost Effective GPS Leveling Method Versus Conventional Leveling Methods For Typical Surveying Applications
Assistant Prof. Dr. Metin Soycan
Yildiz Technical University,
Istanbul, Turkey
metinsoycan@yahoo.com
The method has been probed into consideration of accuracy, practicability, measurement and computation criteria, and has been compared with other conventional leveling methods in a test area…
Vectorization of Contours From Scanned Topographical Map
Dr.K.Ananthanarayanan
Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering,
IIT Madras, Chennai, India
Dr. Koshy Varghese
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering,
IIT Madras, Chennai, India
It is proposed to develop an automated scheme for the extraction and vectorization of contour lines from a scanned topographic map. A methodology for the development and implementation of the proposed scheme...
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CORPORATE
Rolta announces joint venture with Thales
Rolta has announced on August 17 its joint venture (JV) with Land & Joint Systems division of Thales, to be headquartered in Mumbai in India...
Autodesk reports second quarter revenues of $450 million
Autodesk's performance was driven by strong increases in revenue from new seats, subscriptions and emerging economies...
Rif Jiwani succeeds Zul Jiwani as CEO of Orion Technology Inc.
Orion Technology Inc. has announced that Rif Jiwani has been appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer effective October 16, 2006. He will succeed his elder brother, Zul Jiwani, who has decided to...
CompassCom Software and ISEE Universal form alliance, to cooperatively build integrated product this year
To provide customers with a comprehensive Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) and Mobile Digital Video Recorder (MDRV) solution...
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NEW PRODUCTS
GeoEye selects BAE Systems' software for 3D mapping of airports
GeoEye has selected BAE Systems software for a project that will create 3-D maps for hundreds of airports worldwide...
MapInfo adds new features to StreetPro Hong Kong with version 2
StreetPro Hong Kong is a comprehensive and up-to-date digital street database providing users with a...
Intermap to create high resolution 3D map of Western Europe by 2007
Intermap Technologies Corp. announced on August 10 that it has accelerated its plan for creating a high-resolution, three-dimensional map of Western Europe...
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