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India's Department of Science & Technology, Survey of India and Ministry of Urban Development join hands for comprehensive data infrastructure for Delhi
Mr. Sibal also announced that the Survey of India (SoI) would prepare such maps for 400 cities in five years. The data generated by the maps would be...
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Photogrammetry company INPHO GmbH acquired by Trimble
The acquisition of INPHOs photogrammetry and LIDAR software processing technologies augment Trimble's existing ground-based positioning solutions...
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NGA releases new document: “Geospatial Intelligence Standards: Enabling a Common Vision"
“Having GEOINT standards that are universally adopted and implemented across the defence and intelligence communities, as well the entire U.S...
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Autodesk introduces AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD LT 2008, Autodesk Design Review 2008, Autodesk Impression 2008, AutoCAD Map 3D 2008 and AutoCAD Raster Design 2008
Built on the AutoCAD platform and easily added to AutoCAD-based products, Raster Design 2008 helps improve the overall productivity of...
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WORLD THIS WEEK
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Network of mapping and data centres launched by Ordnance Survey
Together with the current internal business use one-year licence, a new multi-year Plan, Design and Build licence that permits data...
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Mumbai Police implements Intergraph's Incident Command and Control System with the aim to improve emergency response
The Command and Control System, as implemented by Intergraph's Indian distributor, Rolta India Limited, provides Mumbai Police force with the ability...
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Trimble introduces GNSS receiver for agriculture applications
The Trimble AgGPS 442 is an integrated GNSS receiver and radio that support GLONASS, GPS L1/L2, RTK GPS and next-generation GPS L2C...
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GMES project for humanitarian relief services receives further funding from ESA
Infoterra Ltd will continue as the prime contractor for Respond, providing project management for a range of tasks including data acquisition...
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ISRO to launch OCEANSAT-2 in 2008
Apart from the Oceansat-2 ISRO will be launching INSAT-3D. "The INSAT-3D satellite will be one of the three weather satellites that ISRO will launch...
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INTERVIEW
Rear Admiral B R Rao NM, VSM
Chief Hydrographer
Government of India
National Hydrographic Office has a fleet of eight modern oceangoing survey ships fully equipped with latest hydrographic, oceanographic, geomagnetic and sea gravity sensors capable of undertaking surveys from the coastal waters to the deep oceans...
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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Pathways for Growth
Prof. Josef Strobl
Centre for Geoinformatics,
Salzburg University, Austria
At the same time, developers are facing the effects of the law of diminishing returns regarding their efforts: increasingly higher levels of complexity, interfacing tasks and reliance on generic components (the downside of what was pointed...
Perspective on GIS and its Increasing Relevance
Geoff Zeiss
Director of Technology, Autodesk
Another dimension of this remarkable period in the history of geospatial is the maturing of the open source geospatial community. There is a parallel between what happened in the emerging internet phenomenon in the...
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CORPORATE
NAVTEQ reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2006 operating results
NAVTEQ revenue from the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region totaled $113.6 million in the quarter, up 34% from the fourth quarter of 2005...
TopoSys North America Inc. established
Building on the long-standing know-how in the development and production of fiber-optic scanners for in-house use TopoSys decided to embark on...
ScottishPower makes major investment in ESRI-based mobile GIS system
“Investment in the latest GIS tools furthers ScottishPower’s business goals of continuous improvement and operational excellence and also supports its...
2007 ASPRS Fellow Award winner announced
The nominees must have made outstanding contributions in a recognized Society specialization whether in practice, research, development,...
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NEW PRODUCTS
GfK GeoMarketing releases RegioGraph 10 and DISTRICT 10
These improvements ”under the engine hood“ of the programme are matched by highly intuitive and flexible desktop functions of RegioGraph and...
BrightEarth-Global natural colour mosaic released by ComputaMaps
BrightEarth is available in UTM or Geographic projection, WGS84 datum, by individual country or continent, or as a single global coverage in a variety of...
QUALCOMM introduces gpsOneXTRA Assistance to expand capabilities of standalone GPS
The company's new gpsOneXTRA Assistance technology provides enhanced operation for Standalone-GPS by enabling a user to download a...
NemeriX launches NeX Extended Ephemeris solution
The compacted firmware enables quicker transmissions and uses less bandwidth than competing methods. With a time-to-first-fix (TTFF) of less...
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Dr. Hrishikesh Samant