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STORIES
Commercial Remote Sensing satellite market in US stabilizing
In a new study, "The Market for Civil & Commercial Remote Sensing Satellites," Forecast International is projecting deliveries of approximately 139 imaging satellites worth $16.3 billion over the next 10 years...
Satellite images provide evidence of the obliteration of a community
Amnesty International on May 31 released the first-ever satellite images of the wholesale destruction of a large community in Zimbabwe…
Geospatial technology market in India expected to touch USD 613 million mark by 2010
Growth in the use of spatial technologies based on maps and satellite imageries has secured acceptance for geospatial technology in India as an effective decision-making tool...
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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Socio-economic impacts and natural resources management conflicts in the urban fringe areas
Pravakar Pradhan
Research Associate,
Asian Institute of Technology,
Bangkok, Thailand
pravakar@ait.ac.th
Ranjith Perera
Assistant Professor and Coordinator,
Urban Environmental Management,
Asian Institute of Technology,
Bangkok, Thailand
This paper probes into the conflict between development and the environment in an extended metropolitan area. It studies the relationship between urbanization, industrialization and the continuous exploitation of natural resources such as land and water resources, for non-agricultural use...
Importance of Exact Geo-referencing of Airborne LIDAR Data
 H. Kager
Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,
Vienna University of Technology,
hk@ipf.tuwien.ac.at
Geo-referencing can be greatly improved doing sophisticated adjustment of parameters based on a manifold of hybrid observations (GPS, IMU, laser-scanner, tying planes, and ground-control)...
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CORPORATE
RSI announces corporate name change to ITT Visual Information Solutions
The name change is part of an ITT initiative to create a singular brand identity for all its global operations…
Lockheed Martin and EADS Astrium to team on future satellite navigation systems
The companies intend to perform systems engineering and technical assistance tasks for each other in the areas of interoperability, integrity and optimisation of joint constellation performance...
EarthData wins $16 M contract to map Papua New Guinea
EarthData International (EarthData) announced on May 31, the award of a $16 million contract by the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia to produce the first-ever high-resolution image and terrain maps of Papua New Guinea…
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NEW PRODUCTS
Leica Geosystems launches Leica IPAS10
Leica IPAS10 eliminates the need for aerial triangulation on a wide range of mapping projects, reduces the need for ground control and facilitates quality control of acquired sensor data...
Microsoft launches UK version of Virtual Earth
Along with the maps, the British Local Live service offers navigation instructions for drivers to destinations around the UK…
South African Track & Trace service launched
With ‘Locate’, the web based solution, users are able to track their objects and generate extensive reports containing addresses (via reversed geocoding), speeds, timestamps, heights etc…
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Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
