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EU launches consultations on use of Galileo satellite system
"Galileo ... presents a unique opportunity for new applications, economic growth and job creation in the European Union," said EU Transport...
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GIS mapping of 50,000-km of Indian national highway to be completed by 2009
Being used in countries like China, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Portugal, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia…
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Scientists build new earthquake-forecasting model
As part of their study, Prof. Kaj Johnson, Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences and Professor Paul Segall at Indiana University have created...
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India's forest cover growth shows upward trend
In 2003 the last assessment was made on the basis of remote sensing satellite data, Environment and Forests Minister A Raja informed...
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Satellite data shows recent changes in Earth's freshwater distribution
Such information is vital for managing water resources in vulnerable parts of Africa and Southeast Asia, since increasing...
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WORLD THIS WEEK
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ISRO expert appointed new Director of CSSTEAP
The Centre is hosted by The Government of India, Department of Space. Government of India has made available appropriate facility and expertise...
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GSDI announces call for proposals for Small Grants Program
The Small Grants Program is intended as a benefit of “full membership” in the GSDI Association. Because the GSDI Association is...
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EU, Morocco sign deal for cooperation on Galileo
“The country has the potential to exploit Galileo's technology, and we plan to jointly develop activities for applications which will not only...
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Ordnance Survey boosts service behind Britain's spatial address infrastructure
Ordnance Survey is also offering enhanced specification options regarding the use of unique property identifiers such as the address TOID...
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GRASS GIS version 6.2.1 released
The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) is a GIS used for spatial modeling, visualization of both raster and vector data...
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EDITORIAL
The GRACE mission was launched in early 2002 for measuring gravity variations around the globe. The analysis of data collected by the twin satellites indicates the depletion of fresh water reserves in some of the large watersheds of the world. This is a cause for concern. The naturally inequitable distribution of fresh water along with increasing population and unsustainable consumption habits is the reason. I often feel the burden of such information and wonder how best to disseminate it. It is a situation, all involved in observing, studying and understanding Gaia have faced. All is not bad on the green front – Indian forests have increased by about 6% over a four year period and the upward trend continues as has been calculated from satellite pictures.
We owe all that we are to some ‘teacher’. The books written by teachers become an integral part of our work and thought. Most of us would have referred to the texts on digital image processing and remote sensing by Professor John R. Jensen. He was declared the recipient of this year’s William T. Pecora award in recognition of his outstanding and sustained international leadership in advancing geographical remote sensing and remote sensing education. This award is sponsored jointly by the US Dept. of Interior and NASA. We at GIS Development extend our heartfelt congratulations to Professor Jensen.
Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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A Common and modern African Geodetic Reference System
H. O. Farah, C. M. Kamamia, W. K. Ottichillo
Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development Ruaraka, Nairobi
farah@rcmrd.org
The African Geodetic Reference Frame (AFREF) was conceived as a unified geodetic reference frame for Africa to be the fundamental basis for the national and regional 3D reference networks...
Overlay Analysis of GIS Layers to Evaluate Changes on AL Sammalyah Island
Salem Essa
Geology Department, U.A.E. University, Al-Ain, U.A.E.
salem.essa@uaeu.ac.ae
Ronald Loughland, Mohamed E. Khogali, Abdulmunem Darwish
Environmental Research Department,
Emirates Heritage Club,
Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
The creation of a spatial GIS database is a major objective of the actual study. To emphasize the issues related to the management of the island resources, multi date large scale aerial photographs were scanned, georectified and integrated into the spatial database...
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CORPORATE
ESA unveils website for SMEs
Europe possesses many world-class SMEs in niche areas which have contributed to Europe’s space programmes. In addition to...
High-resolution satellite images now available to universities via new public-private partnership
"The investment that's been required to catalogue and digitize the imagery has been significant, but well worth it. We're gratified...
BAE Systems teams with SAIC to improve geospatial intelligence
BAE Systems has been named principal teammate to Science Applications International Corp. on a contract to develop...
Trimble to acquire @Road
In addition to its industry-leading technology, @Road has developed deep domain expertise and a strong field service management capability within...
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NEW PRODUCTS
Stereo Analyst for ArcGIS 9.2 and Image Analysis for ArcGIS 9.2 released
Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging has announced the launch of Leica ArcGIS Extensions, Stereo Analyst for ArcGIS 9.2 and Image Analysis for ArcGIS 9.2...
Sanborn unveils Geobook Author
Sanborn has announced a new solution to simplify access to and distribution of geographic data with the Sanborn GEOBOOK Author...
New version of Bathymetric Data Management software released by CARIS
With ever expanding volumes of raw multibeam survey data and large numbers of archived historical data sources, a data management...
GeoLocator version 1.0 launched by Digital Reasoning Systems
Certain analysts estimate that on average only 5% of unstructured data in the IC has geospatial coordinates embedded in documents…
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