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Thailand's first Earth observation satellite to be launched in October
"The minister said the satellite will provide the kingdom with worldwide geo-referenced image products and image-processing capabilities for...
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High-tech satellite mapping initiative launched by US and Canada
"Gary Lunn, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources said, “This agreement reflects a lengthy history of joint research and mutual collaboration between...
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Galileo contracts worth over €40 million awarded to GMV
"GMV is also developing the SPF, which facilitates the exchange of information between Galileo, the users, the service providers and other...
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India to set up aerospace command to control space-based assets
"he IAF needs to transform itself to adapt to new requirements. Its basic role to protect airspace and borders of the country is still there, but we have...
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WORLD THIS WEEK
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Bechtel utilising Bentley's ProjectWise for oil refinery megaproject in India
JERP is an expansion of the refinery that Bechtel built some 10 years ago for Reliance Industries. Once completed, this new project will roughly double...
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Autodesk enters plant design market, introduces AutoCAD P&ID 2007
AutoCAD P&ID 2007 is built on the CAD software platform, to help plant owner/operators and EPC firms make the most of their investments in..
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Trimble introduces Trimble VX Spatial Station
The new Trimble VX Spatial Station revolutionizes the scope of services that surveyors, engineers, mapping and geospatial professionals can offer as...
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SmartPlant 3D 2007 released by Intergraph
With this key component of SmartPlant Enterprise, Intergraph is offering even greater levels of data integrity and application integration across the...
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EDITORIAL
US agency says China used laser to jam US satellite (October 2006)
US adopts new Space Policy (Washington, USA, 25 October 2006)
New elements of the policy include using space support for homeland security, emphasizing and strengthening interagency partnerships
U.S. official: Chinese test missile obliterates satellite
China’s anti-satellite missile test points to developing space weapons race
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jan2007/chin-j29.shtml
India to set up aerospace command to control space-based assets
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070129/main4.htm
China's anti-satellite test worries India (5 Feb, 2007; 0024 hrs IST, TIMES NEWS NETWORK )
These screaming headlines in the last couple of months should wakeup the dead. The generations who saw the nuclear arms race, the cold war, the USSR-USA confrontations and the ‘terror within’ are now being served the next course - Welcome to STAR WARS – the 2nd helping. All that we lesser mortals can think of and dare say is “Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."---George Santayana
Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net
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 ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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Evaluation of the Land Cover Features from Landsat TM over Saudi Arabia
H. S. Lim, M. Z. MatJafri, K. Abdullah, N. M. Saleh, C. J. Wong
School of Physics, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Sultan AlSultan
ISPRS, Commission 7 WG VII/7, Middle East Coordinator
Riaydh City, Saudi Arabia
Coastal Spatial Data Infrasturcture (CSDI): African requirements and Responses
L. Celliers
Oceanographic Research Institute, Durban, South Africa
louis@ori.org.za
R. A. Longhorn
Info-Dynamics Research Associates Ltd, Belgium
ral@alum.mit.edu
K. Lance
ITC, Enschede, The Netherlands
lance@itc.nl
M. Odido
OdinAfrica, Nairobi, Kenya
m.odido@unesco.org
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CORPORATE
Lingtu-CyberCity established in Beijing
"Furthermore the Joint-Venture will consolidate the technical possibilities and know-how of Lingtu and CyberCity AG and extent the market for both...
OGC issues call for sponsors for OGC Web Services, Phase 5 Interoperability Initiative
These requirements will be expressed and tested in the context of two "super-themes." One will focus on workflows across enterprises where...
Amreesh Modi appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of NAVTEQ
Bringing more than two decades of experience in delivery technologies in the telecommunications and internet arena, Modi is a dynamic leader with...
New EnterpriseElite programme announced by Leica Geosystems
IT organizations will enjoy the ability to easily support local, wide area or globally distributed license servers in any configuration they may require...
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NEW PRODUCTS
ProjectWise Navigator unveiled by Bentley
ProjectWise Navigator can also operate in a managed environment in conjunction with ProjectWise collaboration servers. The result is an...
Digital maps for Saudi Arabia and Egypt now available from Tele Atlas
..and is in response to increased demand from global customers for highly detailed and accurate maps of all major countries around the world.
SiRFstarIII to drive industry’s first ultra-mobile PC with integrated GPS
The ASUS R2H sets an important precedent, establishing GPS as a core functional component for UMPCs, and bringing the benefit of location...
NAVTEQ releases Entry Map, first release available in Eastern Europe
“Entry Map will enable NAVTEQ to address a large number of geographic areas previously under served by the digital map industry,” stated Mary...
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