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February 2008 VOL 4 Issue 5 |
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India is today a force to reckon with among the comity of space faring nations, with 11 communications satellites in orbit, the largest domestic constellation in all of Asia Pacific and with seven remote sensing satellites in space India today can map at resolution less then a meter. This has propelled the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) into the big league and its now well poised to enter the US$ 15 billion a year global launch market, Indian satellite images are already popular. The commercial arm of ISRO the Antrix Corporation has been doing brisk business with its total turnover for the last fiscal rising to Rupees 664 crores, 50% more than the previous year. The Indian space agency gets 75 per cent of its business from foreign clients and has contracts for launching four small satellites for Singapore, Netherlands, Canada and Germany. The agency has also won a contract for making two large communications satellites for European customers.ISRO is all set to rake in the money while travelling to Moon, Mars and Beyond.
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The O&M standard defines an abstract model and an XML schema encoding for observations and measurements. This framework is required for use by other OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards as well as for general support for OGC compliant systems dealing in technical measurements in science and engineering. As a new international consensus standard in an era of increasing scientific cooperation, O&M promises to play an important role in Web-based publishing of real-time and archived scientific data across research disciplines and application domains.The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. have approved version 1.0 of the OpenGIS® Observations & Measurements (O&M) Encoding Standard.
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Sign of the ancient Juggernaut?
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| Editorial |
...yes, we do.
Last week I had rhetorically posed the question about the need of a 'Geospatial Nanny' and now a report on the web makes me think otherwise. Please do check the sordid story and if you want to make a difference do write to me.
Organising 'Cleanup weekends' was a fad on Google Earth a couple of months ago. We now need a 'cleanup' of a different kind...pickup your brooms and...
I look forward to meeting and interacting with you during MAP INDIA 2008 this week. Do be there.
 Dr.
Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net
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PIT STOP
1. Frank George needs a global public transport database for the location of railway, tube, subway, tram, metro and coach
station and databases that include bus stops which can be used to predict arrival times. All he has presently is the NAPTAN database for UK. Any pointers...
2. Matthias Brik needs digital boundaries (GIS layer) and statistical data for Qatar. You can reach him at Email: matthias.birk@mb-research.de or visit http://www.mb-research.de
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Blog Buster
Mappers are terrorists?
I would like to know what efforts you are making to ensure that the police, and the public alike, are not being thrown into a frenzied state of paranoia? To ensure that people like myself, my colleagues, and other projects of a similar ilk are not unjustly victimized due to your over-generalization. I would also like to know what we should do in order to avoid being incorrectly labeled as terrorists by the police and the public? ...Blog by Kyle Gordon
The Bible according to Google Earth
Sydney, Australia-based art collective called The Glue Society has re-created scenes from the Bible as if captured by Google Earth’s ubiquitous satellites.
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EVENTS
Map India 2008
6 February - 8 February 2008
India Expo Center, Expo XXI, Greater Noida, India
INTERGEO EAST
18 February - 20 February 2008, Belgrade Fair, Belgrade, Serbia
International LIDAR Mapping Forum
21 February - 22 February 2008
Adam's Mark Hotel
GSDI 10
25 February - 29 February 2008, University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
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