17th July 2006 VOL.2 ISSUE 29     

Rains lash Mumbai… Serial bombings in Mumbai …last week the disasters piled sky-high. It is more than the citizens of any metropolitan city can take. The aftermath of all this will be the usual frantic formation of high-level committees by the government. The outcome as in the past will be far from the desired. The disaster management cell in this metro is ill equipped to tackle such events. The resistance to building a GIS for Mumbai city by the powers that be is phenomenal. The excuses offered are ‘…no map is presently available at a level of detail required by the GIS… so we will have to first map the city’… but one needs to start somewhere or have we forgotten that Rome wasn’t build in a day’. The city of London had its own share of terror last year. A few argued about the efficacy of the half-a-million surveillance cameras and a GIS that is in place. Need one point out what would be the incentive to even a potato gun terrorist if this system was ‘not in place’. I’ve said this earlier and I say it again… ‘It’s not the cost of having a GIS – it’s the cost of not having one’.

  Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net

WORLD THIS WEEK

South Korea to launch Arirang 2 on July 28
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CityGML 3D data over Web demonstrated successfully
SAIC acquires GeoViz.com Inc.
Geokosmos, IGN France, Geomod win bid to build gas pipeline information system
Avon and Somerset police to get high-quality digital aerial photographs from Ordnance Survey
Alteryx 2.0 extends reach of business intelligence

TOP STORIES

India’s defence experts seek appropriate laws to refrain Google from hosting images

Their grouse: the search engine has yet again uploaded satellite imagery of Indian military bases and other sensitive installations, allowing users to view them in graphic detail without any restriction...



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Vice Admiral Robert B. Murrett appointed National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director

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EVENTS

IGNSS2006
17 - 21 July 2006
Holiday Inn Surfers Paradise
Gold Coast, Australia

GeoWeb 2006
24-28 July 2006
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

2006 ESRI International User Conference
7–11 August 2006 San Diego Convention Center
San Diego, California, USA

Map Asia 2006
August 29 - September 1, 2006,
Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre
Bangkok, Thailand


ANNOUNCEMENT
Map World Forum
22-25 January 2007
Hyderabad, India



ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
GPS Application in the Geological Mapping of Pasupugallu Gabbro Pluton, Eastern Ghats Belt, Andhra Pradesh, India

T.R.K. Chetty
National Geophysical Research Institute,
Hyderabad, India
chettytrk@yahoo.co.in

J. Nagaraju
National Geophysical Research Institute,
Hyderabad, India

The real-time preliminary geological map, prepared from the GPS software, has been conveniently used for plotting the voluminous structural data and reduced a large amount of time and work…

Can MODIS derived NDVI provide biophysical status of Tea bush?

Rishiraj Dutta, Dr. N.R. Patel
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun


Prof. Dr. Ir. Alfred Stein
International Institute for Geoinformation Science & Earth Observation
The Netherlands


Tea is one of the most important beverage in India. It is the number one foreign exchange earner. India is the largest producer of tea in the world. The Indian states of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, North Bengal (Darjeeling) and Sikkim contribute significantly to the overall tea production in the country…


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