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Way cleared for faster implementation of India's NSDI; 4,800 Survey of India maps to be released into public domain
"We are now in business," added Dr R Siva Kumar, Head of NSDI. First, 40 major cities will be mapped on a scale of 1:1000 and in later phases the...
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Brazil-Ukraine joint venture space company eyes global satellite launch market; to start operations this year
Carvalho also said that another goal of AEB is to launch the third satellite, built in partnership with China, which will provide images of the national...
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NATMO to launch Golden Map Service
After the advancements in remote-sensing, GIS and GPS, now is the era of Web cartography in mobile communication. NATMO will take a leading role...
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OGC specifications figure prominently in NGA's NSG standards baseline
Shortly after September 11, 2001, the National Center for Geospatial Intelligence Standards (NCGIS) was formed by the NGA to develop and...
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WORLD THIS WEEK
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Bentley joins FIG as Platinum Corporate Member
Professor Stig Enemark, President of FIG, said, “We are extremely gratified to welcome Bentley as a Platinum corporate member of FIG. It is important...
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Anti-satellite test not directed at any country, says China's Foreign Minister
India's Ambassador to China Nirupama Rao told presspersons that in a "suo motu briefing" Mr. Li informed Mr. Mukherjee at Hyderabad House here that...
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Geoeye and DigitalGlobe: Eye on growth
GeoEye kept about 85 percent of Space Imaging employees, he said. It now has about 120 employees in Thornton and about 300 company-wide...
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Vietnam to launch its own remote sensing satellite by 2010
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has recently approved a programme for space technology research and applications that will last until 2020...
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EDITORIAL
Reducing the babel... that's what OGC is doing, and their 'following' has a new entrant – The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) of the USA. Adoption of the common suite of geospatial standards as those adopted by the domestic civil and international community is a rather bold step by the NGA. It is a reflection of the trends seen in global defence and intelligence communities towards open standards based interoperable technology solutions.
On home turf, the announcement by the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) of India, releasing forty eight hundred available, topographic maps out of approximately fifty one hundred which cover the entire country, at a scale of 1:50,000 into the public domain has been welcomed by the geospatial community. The statement by Dr. R. Sivakumar, Head NSDI ...'We are now in business...' hints at a paradigm shift. A large eager user/consumer base that was deprived of this data is looking forward to the opening of the flood gates... Looks like the 'Geospatial Tower of Babel' will actually stand tall.
Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net
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CORPORATE
ArcGIS Server Code Challenge announced by ESRI
The developer community will vote for first-, second-, and third-place winners based on the creativity, applicability, and relevance of the code sample. The...
Intermap to provide 3D data for Microsoft's Virtual Earth
The agreement also sets the stage for the future development of applications and solutions that rely on accurate digital elevation models that can serve a...
MapInfo acquires Graphical Data Capture
The GDC senior management team has over three decades of experience in the UK Public Sector. Approximately 80 percent of GDC’s revenues come...
ESRI Canada and Tele Atlas North America announce data distribution agreement
"Tele Atlas is very pleased to strengthen our relationship with ESRI Canada," said John Cassidy, GIS Market Director, Tele Atlas. "Users...
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NEW PRODUCTS
DSS RapidOrtho System for airborne rapid response geospatial imaging introduced by Applanix
This results in an improved accuracy typically to better than 2 times the Ground Sample Distance (GSD) of the ortho product. The High Precision...
ArcReader 9.2 now available
ArcReader is a free desktop mapping application that allows users to view, navigate, and print maps and globes created with the ArcGIS Publisher extension...
Applanix introduces POSPac AIR v4.4
For airborne surveying, this can provide an advantage by reducing periods of poor dilution of precision (DOP), particularly at high latitudes, thereby...
Carbon Project announces full release of CarbonTools PRO
CarbonTools PRO is a unique platform providing .NET programmers with the software tools they need to easily incorporate location content in their...
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