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India successfully launches CARTOSAT-2, SRE-1, LAPAN-TUBSAT, PEHUENSAT-1
"CARTOSAT-2 carries a Panchromatic camera (PAN) to provide imageries with a spatial resolution of better than one metre and a swath of 9.6 km. The satellite can be...
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Project for a transparent Earth
"People would like to know `what's under my garden, or my city? Is it a safe place to build my house?'" said Prof. de Mulder, explaining the attraction...
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All restrictions on GLONASS use lifted by Russia
"It should be accessible to citizens, and not only to major entities of the economic activity, then the system will be economically profitable...
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Infrastructure spending boosts geospatial market in India
"There is an increasing demand for well integrated design tools such as CAD and GIS software in the Indian infrastructure space. Integration...
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WORLD THIS WEEK
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 CyberCity extends European database with Paris 3D and Florence 3D
CyberCity distributes the 3D city model, the detailed digital terrain model and the orthophoto (AeroGRID France, 12.5cm and 25cm resolution)...
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Virtual London to engage Londoners in the future of their city
What Londoners cannot do, however, is experience Virtual London on the web. Virtual London is based partly on a database created by...
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DigitalGlobe acquires GlobeXplorer
GlobeXplorer provides online access to the world’s largest commercial library of aerial photos, satellite imagery, geographic maps, and real...
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USGS to release TerraLook in cooperation with NASA
The TerraLook images are user-selected, geo-registered, simulated natural color bundled with footprints of the images and standards-compliant...
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EDITORIAL
The calculation of conditional probability of the occurrence of an event considering multiple variables has been extensively used for potential zonation of events which are also easy to depict in the form of raster images. Weights of evidence modeling has also been used for similar purposes, more so in mineral exploration. The utilization of such statistical modeling techniques for generating ‘traffic jam possibility’ maps is innovative. NAVTEQ has used something similar to provide digital maps for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions. They have used the analysis of traffic patterns to offer enhanced road navigability maps to end users – so now you know how quickly you can reach a place, at what speed using which route with a far greater reliability.
From virtual globes which are windows to our earth we are moving to windows ‘into the earth’. The ‘one geology’ or ‘transparent earth’ project spearheaded by the British geological survey promises just that. We will soon be able to find out ‘what lies beneath’. Geological maps of the whole planet will be stitched and draped on a virtual globe – so what’s new? Well it is not just the surface geology but also what lies at various depths below. But Prof. De Mulder, who described this project said – it can’t show you the buried treasure. For now, we will have to be satisfied by draping surface geology maps on the likes of Google earth as shown here…
To hear about the latest offerings from virtual globes and all matters geospatial, join us at Map World Forum next week.
Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net
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CORPORATE
MapInfo appoints Ben Rippingale as Sales Director for South East Asia
MapInfo has also announced that it has upgraded its Singapore Representative Office to a Branch office..
NGA awards Applied Geographics contract for HSIP Schema development
"The project will also result in collateral support materials and tools for HSIP schema navigation and viewing...
Bentley named company of the year
In accepting the award for Bentley, Neville Glanville, Building Industry Sales Director for Bentley, said, “I am pleased and honored to accept this...
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NEW PRODUCTS
Edgetech introduces MapSpeller for ArcGIS
The MapSpeller for ArcGIS extension is for all ArcGIS Desktop users who want to avoid the...
nüvi with preloaded North American and European maps and nüvi Asian Americas version navigators announced
Customers choosing the U.S. Topo cartography will have access to basic information such as terrain...
Traffic Patterns Database launched by NAVTEQ
The ability to see patterns in traffic creates opportunities for application developers...
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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Structural Analysis of Environmental, Socio-Demographic Determinants of Malnutrition
Cheah WL, Wang YC
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
wlcheah@fmhs.unimas.my
Zabidi-Hussin ZAMH, Manan WMW
Universiti Sains Malaysia
There are various studies on causes of malnutrition. Many studies have proven that child health outcomes are affected by factors operating both at the individual level and within the compositional and contextual situation...
Commercial Vehicle Monitoring Services
Business Development Department
HC Tracking Service Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
CVMS service is a digital communication and tracking service for vehicles which utilize the combination of Global Positioning Satellite (GPS), telecommunication and geo- spatial system technologies for highly accurate location information in near real-time...
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