19th June 2006 VOL.2 ISSUE 25     



  Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net

WORLD THIS WEEK

World Cup location data available
CALIPSO starts collecting atmospheric data
Autodesk announces Civil 3D 2007 Extension for Google Earth—Technology Preview
Malaysia to work with India in space technology
Intermap Technologies wins $2.5M mapping contract in Southeast Asia
Intergraph releases Z/I Mission
Bentley ships V8 XM edition of ProjectWise
Skyline Software Systems announces SkylineGlobe.com

TOP STORIES

Google announces major updates for Google Earth

Google Inc. announced on June 12, at Google's first Geo Developer Day, a series of updates to the company's mapping product suite…



Indian Government approves creation of NSDI

The creation of NSDI will lead to leveraging the existing data assets of various organizations to add value and create massive entrepreneurial opportunities in the growing knowledge industry…



Satellite imagery used to plan agriculture and disaster relief efforts

Healing Hands International (HHI), a non-profit humanitarian organization, is working with the Native Communities Development Corporation (NCDC)...



EVENTS

Geographical Information System
20-22 June 2006
The Castle, Kyalami, Midrand
South Africa

AGIT SPECIAL 2006 - Geoinformation for Development
5-7 July 2006
Salzburg University

Coast GIS 2006
12 - 16 July
University of Wollongong,
Australia


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INTERVIEW
"We are the first right now and we are the best, but the future is Unknown"

Michael Jones
CTO, Google Earth


ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
Sensor Orientation and Ortho-Rectification of High Resolution Satellite Images: Review and Application with FORMOSAT-2

Thierry Toutin
Natural Resources Canada,
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
Ontario, Canada
thierry.toutin@ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca

Why ortho-rectify remote sensing images? Raw images usually contain such significant geometric distortions that they cannot be used directly with map base products in a geographic information system (GIS)...

Computerised Cadastral Mapping: A Modern Technological Improvisation

R. M. Singh
National Centre for Human Settlements and Environment, Bhopal
rrmsingh@rediffmail.com


Based on the requirement of different departments and NGOs and approval of authorities extensibility of digital cadastral mapping can be provided to make the Land Records easy to use.

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


CORPORATE

Bentley acquires GEF-RIS AG

In addition to offering products that help manage power utility networks, GEF-RIS also provides advanced analysis tools for engineers…


Telcontar announces name change to deCarta

In connection with the name change, the company also unveiled a new corporate logo and began doing business under the new name and identity…



NEW PRODUCTS

BAE Systems releases SOCET GXP v2.2

Highlights of this release include a new 3D flythrough capability with waypoint editing, AutoSOCET capabilities available via the Workspace Manager…


Intergraph introduces OneMobile enterprise information application

Until now, field personnel have had to rely on several applications to manage routine tasks such as outages, inspections, repairs and connect and disconnects…




MapInfo Professional version 8.5 launched

MapInfo Corporation has introduced MapInfo Professional version 8.5, the first version of the company’s location intelligence application with Web services connectivity…


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