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India’s PSLV to blast off with CARTOSAT-2, SRE, Lapan-Tubsat, Pehuensat on January 10
"This will make it the world's second best alongside Ikonos of the US that also gives 1-m imageries; and a close rival to Quickbird that offers...
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DigitalGlobe announces Ball Aerospace is building WorldView 2 satellite
"WorldView 2 will enable DigitalGlobe to collect almost five times the imagery of any current commercial system, and is a significant step in...
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India to launch comprehensive drive to make all land records online
"To strengthen the revenue administration, the final records will have legal validity for all property transactions in future. These computerised...
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Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India: Major achievements, policies and schemes during 2006
"The Government of India approved the reorganization of the Ministry of Ocean Development as Ministry of Earth Sciences and formation of Earth...
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South Korea to develop its own space-launch vehicle by 2008
"Between now and 2010, South Korea plans to build or launch a total of nine satellites. Its space centre, Naro Space Center, on the country's...
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WORLD THIS WEEK
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University researchers prepare 150-km panoramic image of New Mexico using digital camera and stratospheric balloon
Igor predicts that "traditional GIS will be replaced by user fed data and applications" and that his project is just the beginning of "remote sensing for....
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First satellite of SAR-Lupe system placed safely in orbit
This mission is based on the most sophisticated technologies in SAR radar field, able to get images under any weather or light conditions (day or night)...
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Mauritian lands to go cyber
Once the system is in place, the click of a mouse on a virtual map of Mauritius will visually show one the area under investigation. Click further and one...
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Indian space programme - major events during 2006
Space applications continued to expand reaching the benefits of space technology to a wider cross section of the society. The EDUSAT network...
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Australian Tsunami Warning Centre unveiled at GeoScience Australia
Senior Seismologist at Geoscience Australia Dr Phil Cummins said the old system did not have the capabilities of detecting the 2004 Boxing...
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EDITORIAL
The first satellite imagery of our planet was obtained by Explorer – 6 in August 1959 and after that began a race to convert the envelope around our ‘home’ into a veritable ‘imaging devices minefield’. The first real time imagery was obtained by USA’s KH – 11 satellite in 1977 (wikipedia), and though not documented, it is certain that the erstwhile USSR was also very active in sending up imaging devices probably more so than the USA. Today these ancient devices may be space dust or may have been vaporized as they plummeted towards the Earth after the end of their life. They are being quickly replaced by others and now it is not just the USA, Russia, France, UK and China but countries like India (7 active remote sensing satellites), Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and a host of other nations have a strong presence in the remote sensing satellites arena.
As the resolution of satellite imagery data improves (less than 0.65m), these products will and already are infringing on the aerial imagery business. The only niche for the aerial data being in the ‘hyper spectral’ imaging sector. A raging thought in the minds of many – Are we heading for data surplus ? How much is the redundancy in satellite imagery data ? How many commercial satellite remote sensing products can the market support ? To hear the views of stalwarts and to have your say in this matter, and many others, join us in Hyderabad for Map World Forum from the 22nd to the 25th January.
Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net
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CORPORATE
Lockheed wins contract for system design review of NAVSTAR
The Air Force’s Global Positioning Systems Wing, Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California...
Nelson Chan named CEO of Magellan
"Chan was most recently executive vice president and head of the consumer products business at...
ScanEx announces 20 per cent discount on software for Map World Forum participants
All that the exhibition visitors need to do is to come up to the ScanEx exhibition place number 54, fill in the purchase request for any software product...
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NEW PRODUCTS
Leica Cyclone 5.6 adds orthophoto and stakeout capabilities to laser scanning
Leica Cyclone, the industry’s popular laser scanning software, is Leica Geosystems’ suite of software modules that enables users to...
Autodesk joins with Oracle to provide integrated geospatial solutions to US government organizations
With the combined power of these two specialized bundles, organizations will be able to implement Oracle Database's spatial capabilities more easily...
GeoTools 2.3.0 release available for download
The following organizations, have contributed to this stable release: GeoSolutions for their RnD contributions appearing in this release...
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