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India to launch military satellite CARTOSAT 2A

India will launch its first dedicated military reconnaissance satellite CARTOSAT-2A in the first week of August . This launch to be followed by two more launches by next year will improve India's capability in monitoring its borders effectively...

Edgetech releases MapSpeller for ArcGIS

Edgetech America, Inc. has released MapSpeller, a spell checker for ArcGIS Desktop users that can quickly checks for spelling errors in a maps. The MapSpeller toolbar is delivered as an ArcGIS extension and is available for purchase in the USA...

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USGS to celebrate 25 years of Landsat5 mission

USGS is planning a celebration to mark Landsat-5, which is entering 25th year of its operation next year. And USGS is optimistic that the satellite will continue to provide high-quality data past its 25th anniversary...

BISAG to set up Geoinformatics academy

The Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics (BISAG) will set up an Academy of Geoinformatics in its premises. The academy will be affiliated to Gujarat University and will be funded by the State Science and Technology Department...

County asks appeals court to overturn ruling on mapping data

The Santa Clara County appealed against the court order to open digital map data to public. The county fears that releasing the maps will have a threat from terrorists...

Trimble Dimensions 2007 to be held in November

Trimble announced that it will hold its International User Conference in November 5-7, 2007 in Las Vegas. The conference will host more than 200 tracks that will discuss technology and market trends in the field of GIS, GPS and Surveying...

Conventionally a passive microwave radiometer has been effectively used for sea surface – temperature, salinity, wind, ozone, aerosol and other atmospheric component detection and quantification. The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission of the ESA has after more than a decade's work devised the Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) which will measure microwave radiation emitted from the Earth's surface at L-band (1.4GHz). This is the standard frequency for monitoring soil moisture content and salinity, the unique feature of MIRAS being that it is a passive sensor and will use the phase difference between the microwave signals received at two or more sensors – the MIRAS has 69 of them, arranged in a 'Y' configuration. The SMOS mission is scheduled for launch this year.

The other announcements of technological significance this week are - Launch of Ofek7- the Israeli spy satellite, the scheduled launch of Cartosat 2A – the first dedicated military satellite for India, as expected, no details are available about both the satellites and TerraSAR-X has been successfully launched from Baikonur on the 15th of June ...cheers. For land-Surveyors, Laser Technology Inc. has released the TruPulse 360, a laser range finder with their TruVector compass technology allowing the user to “ shoot from any angle”... '...urged to blur...' has probably been the context of quite a number of messages that the CTO of Google Earth has received and the sensible reply from Google to all such 'urged' requests has been '...Anyone who flies above or drives by a piece of property can obtain similar information...'. I would rather say that the information obtained so would be almost real time and hence more detrimental, so why not declare no-fly zones all around such so-called sensitive areas, all that Google Earth gives is almost an year old high resolution data. If you do feel the urge to see 'blur', search out 'Camp David' and let me know.

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