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Coral reef atlas of French Polynesia to be available on Internet
Internet users will soon be able to access a French research institute's Coral Reef Atlas for French Polynesia. The atlas is produced using Landsat images. The atlas provides between one and three cartographic plates per island and a synthesis of the surfaces of each of coral reef category. There are more than 64 categories of different reef formations.
Jinshan acquires huge gold exploration permits in China
Jinshan Gold Mines Inc. announced recently that it has acquired four exploration
permits totaling 153.34 square kilometres in the Eastern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous
Region (Xinjiang) of Northwest China. The permits were granted by the State Ministry
of Lands and Resources in Beijing. Jinshan has developed a nation wide GIS database
for exploration targeting and property evaluation in the numerous gold belts
throughout China. The GIS Database has been instrumental behind
this
development.
Canadian Government reports forests disappearing
Using satellite imagery extensively, Global Forest Watch Canada has released the first complete survey on the impact "human disturbances" have on Quebec's boreal forests and the results are not good. The study, based on Remote Sensing, shows massive devastation of boreal forests in central and northern Quebec.
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ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
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Intelligent services in mobile GIS applications
Evangelos Kotsakis
Institute for the Protection and the Security of the Citizen (IPSC), Joint Research Center, European Commission, Italy
Co-author: Michalis Ketselidis
Mobile Systems operating outdoors are useful for many activities. However, the
bulk of information available is dynamic and incomplete and one’s preferences
about certain actions are vague, ambiguous and otherwise fuzzy. A solution is
proposed in this paper that helps the user to optimize data management by matching
his preferences to location-based information. The purpose is to provide a tool
that can facilitate decision-making in a context aware environment.
Embedded GIS in Environmental Management
Kurt Fedra
Environmental Software & Services, Gumpoldskirchen, Austria
The support of Environmental Planning and Management processes requires not only advanced scientifically based analytical tools such as dynamic simulation and optimization models, or expert systems, but also interfaces that facilitate participatory planning and decision making processes. Web based solutions can provide easy access to complex information resources and tools, including thematic maps as a familiar display format.
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 CONTRACT
MetaCarta signs contract with Defense Intelligence Agency
MetaCarta, US, a provider of geographic intelligence solutions, announced recently that its technology has been chosen for inclusion in Raytheon's Direct-access User Knowledge Environment (DUKE) Information Management System, a messaging system used by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). The integration of MetaCarta's GeoTagger technology by Raytheon allows the DUKE system to exploit unstructured text messages, producing geospatial content that is incorporated together with other data for display and interpretation by intelligence analysts.
NOAA and Department of Defense awarded contracts to C&C Technologies
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Department of Defense announced recently that it has awarded several contracts to C&C Technologies, Inc. for hydrographic mapping of US waters and research and development of new survey technologies. One contract awarded to C&C is a portion of a five year, 50 million dollar contract with NOAA's Office of Coast Survey.
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