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STORIES
Indian Space Research Organisation opens up space to private industry
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is preparing to throw open its once closely guarded rocket programme to the private industry…
Large blanks fleck the landscape of France on Geoportail
Millions of French Internet users are zooming in on aerial views of their holiday houses with a new state web service, but not Jacques Chirac. The Château de Bity, a country home in the Corrèze that the President rarely visits, is blanked out, along with the surrounding village...
Researchers show how changes in land use, land cover affect human health
Goodin and other scientists recently discussed this subject at the workshop, "Contributions of Remote Sensing for Decisions about Human Welfare," sponsored by the National Academies of Science in Washington, D.C....
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EVENTS
IGNSS2006
17 - 21 July 2006
Holiday Inn Surfers Paradise
Gold Coast, Australia
Coast GIS 2006
12 - 16 July
University of Wollongong,
Australia
GeoWeb 2006
24-28 July 2006
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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CORPORATE
MapInfo appoints Jonathan Wright as Managing Director for Asia Pacific
MapInfo Corporation announced the appointment of Jonathan Wright as Managing Director, MapInfo Asia Pacific…
CyberCity offers 3D city model of Hamburg commercially
A collaborative agreement has been signed between the State Office for Geo-Information and Survey (LGV) of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and CyberCity, Zurich to market and improve the massive 3D city model of Hamburg, Germany...
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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Review of Digital Image Orthorectification Techniques
Dr. F. I. Okeke
Department of Geoinformatics and Surveying,
University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Nigeria
The product of orthorectification process is orthoimage or orthophotos. Without orthorectification, scale is not constant in the image and accurate measurements of distance and direction cannot be made...
Geometric Potential of IKONOS Images
Wieslaw Wolnieiwcz
Warsaw University of Technology
w.wolniewicz@gik.pw.edu.pl
We tend to transfer the very well known geometry of aerial photogrammetric cameras to geometry of satellite camera. However, we should be aware of the fact that there are substantial differences between them...
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NEW PRODUCTS
Geomagic launches Geomagic Studio 9
As a software tool, Geomagic Studio can effectively and automatically process 3D scan data for applications ranging from reverse engineering to design and analysis. The software automatically creates accurate...
MWH Soft releases InfoSewer Version 4.0
In response to customer feedback, this latest version introduces user-driven enhancements and functionalities, along with architectural and database improvements that make sophisticated sewer systems analysis and design applications fast and easy to use...
Safe Software announces availability of FME 2006 GB
Among the hundreds of user-requested enhancements included in this release, FME 2006 GB offers important customization options to enhance security, increase work efficiency, and assist with processing ever-increasing data volumes...
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Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
