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First Galileo satellite launched from Kazakhstan
The EU’s first satellite of the Galileo navigation program has been launched from Kazakhstan. The 600 kg British built spacecraft, named "Giove A," took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a Soyuz rocket early Wednesday morning (28 December 2005). The satellite is part of Galileo, the €3.4 billion system from which the EU is aiming to deploy a total of 30 satellites by 2010.
GIS assists monitoring of heavy metals along Indian coast
WHO has begun a project to monitor the level of heavy metals in 400 coastal water bodies in Tamil Nadu in India fearing the tsunami last year may have deposited these substances along the coast. The monitoring is taking place in the coastal water bodies such as wells and deep and shallow tube wells, which have been identified using GIS.
Orthorectified Landsat digital data now available from USGS
The USGS now offers, at no cost, selected Landsat 4, 5 and 7 satellite data. Orthorectified Landsat data are available for free download from the Global Visualization Viewer. The Landsat Orthorectified data collection is a global set of high-quality, relatively cloud-free orthorectified Landsat 4-5 Thematic Mapper (TM) and Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) imagery.
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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Location in Insurance Risk Management
Nigel Lester
Sales Director
South East Asia
MapInfo Corporation
Location has long been a critical element to the insurance industry. Insurers depend on geographic and demographic information to assess underwriting risk, handle claims, match coverage, expand markets, serve existing customers and develop new business. Complicating matters is the sheer volume of data— claims histories, natural and man-made hazards, risk factors, locations, competitive intelligence and much more. Storing, retrieving, interpreting, and applying all of this data in a meaningful way can be a staggering and expensive proposition. Spatial technology has become an invaluable strategic tool to many leading insurers.
GIS in Business - Routing analysis of Plaza Shoppers
Lilian, S.C. Pun-Cheng
Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong
Fashion retailing represents a large business in Hong Kong. Retailers are often concerned with a truly profitable location for their stores. With the construction of many large shopping plazas in recent years, many retailers receive long lists of vacant stores from the land developer everyday. This study therefore aims at modeling the routing pattern of a particular group of multi-storey plaza shoppers by identifying a set of environmental or spatial variables, correlating them with non-spatial ones like frequency of passing-by, degree of familiarity.
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FEATURE OF THE WEEK
Glimpses 2005
Dhawal Kumar
GIS Development
Co-Author
Rituparna Sengupta
Today the geospatial community is making its presence felt in a very big way. The year 2005 has witnessed a variety of applications of geospatial tools. We take a glimpse at some interesting events, which took place in the year 2005.
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CONFERENCE REPORT
SEASC 2005
21 – 25 November 2005
Brunei
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EVENT
First Asia-Pacific Conference for ESRI Users ESRI China
12-13 January 2006
Hong Kong
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Company Directory
View numerous companies across the world with details of their competences enlisted and updated in the directory of
companies at GISdevelopment.net every month in 11 different categories.
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