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Bentley announces winners of 2007 BE Awards of Excellence
Bentley Systems announced the winners of the 2007 BE Awards of Excellence honoring the work of Bentley users ...
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Yahoo! India launches City Maps for Indian market
Yahoo! India has launched two new products for the Indian market, Yahoo! India Our City and Yahoo! India Maps. Both products have been designed & developed locally...
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Cutbacks and reallocations within NASA and NOAA to harm US Earth Observation Satellites, AAAS cautioned
The US general science society has warned that budget cuts are threatening U.S. satellites essential for weather forecasting, hurricane warning, studies of global climate change and more...
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GIS Development felicitates Ordnance Survey
 "GIS Development Award has been presented to Ordnance Survey, UK's national mapping agency for being a Role Model ...
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WORLD THIS WEEK
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Indonesian Government partners with DigitalGlobe to identify Taxable Property
DigitalGlobe's QuickBird satellite imagery will facilitate visual identification of taxable land, to help the Indonesian government ...
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STL releases 20m resolution DEM and Clutter for 35 Nigerian cities for the Wireless and Telecomunication Industry
STL announced the release of 20m resolution clutter and DEM mapping data for over 35 cities across Nigeria...
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GeoEye and East-Dawn of China partner to provide Geospatial Services
"New Entity Beijing Earth Observation (BEO) to be an exclusive master reseller in China for GeoEye. BEO will focus on the resale of satellite imagery...
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DMTI Spatial launches National Data Sharing Program in Canada
DMTI Spatial launched the National Data Sharing Program focused primarily to serve Canadian Municipalities...
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GeoMarketing software DISTRICT 10 wins innovation award
DISTRICT 10 software of GeoMarketing has been awarded a prize for innovation in the category business intelligence at this year´s CeBIT...
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EDITORIAL
A couple of months ago North Ireland Tax Department declared its
intentions of monitoring personal assets of its citizens using high
resolution oblique aerial photographs. Last week Indonesia has announced
that it will use high resolution imagery from Digital Globe to 'visually
identify taxable land'. With an overall boom in world economy, the tax
sharks have tasted blood. Satellite Imagery – once an exclusive research
tool in the hands of earth scientists is being exhaustively used by the
official spooks to nail tax evaders. The data used for such activities
is almost totally acquired, processed and sold by private data providers
who have their own satellites.
The cutbacks in funds allocated for the US earth observation satellites
has been criticised by the US's general science society. Since the early
70's, it has been the US who took the initiative of funding, launching,
maintaining earth imaging satellites, and then graciously disseminating
global datasets on various themes for the world's researchers. The
returns from this gesture have benefited the planet. Till about a decade
ago, the global remote sensing data users community would be offered
data for monitoring diverse global surface and atmospheric parameters
from the state-of the-art (or should I call it 'designer') sensors,
mostly from satellites launched by the US. This activity is slowly but
surely decreasing. Today, the emphasis is on designing sensors with the
highest resolution – and that too in the RGB range. The government
controlled remote sensing programmes of almost all developed and
unfortunately, also the developing nations, seem to be content with
allowing private organisations take over their job and then go a step
further by possibly being the largest buyers of the acquired data and
use it for monitoring its citizenry.
A deep web search on 'highest resolution google data' resulted in this Link ... go ahead , try it out.
It is now more than ever necessary to discuss and formulate a 'privacy
policy' for high resolution data. I look forward to hearing your views
on this.
 Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net
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ARTICLES
Smallest GPS Network for Tallest Building...
Joel van Cranenbroeck, Douglas Hayes,Ian Sparks
This article describes a procedure using GPS observations combined with a precision inclination sensor to provide reliable coordinated point's at the top of world's tallest building under construction in Dubai...
Surveying and Mapping in Vietnam
Saurabh Mishra
This paper talks about the history and current status of the cartographic mapping technology in Vietnam...
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NEW PRODUCTS
Trimble introduces lightweight, powerful solution for Mapping and GIS applications
Trimble introduced the latest addition to its Mapping and GIS product line, the Juno ST handheld... 
CARIS releases Core Production Database Version 2.5
Using Oracle data processing, CPD will provide a geospatial database that enables stakeholders to consolidate their data into a single source...
SANZ unveils EarthWhere 4.2 for Windows
SANZ has announced the release of EarthWhere 4.2 for Windows, a major upgrade to the company's geospatial data provisioning software...
IDEAL launches My3Dservices.com
Offers 2D to 3D CAD/BIM file conversion, file healing & preparation for 3D printing and 3D model library creation...
GeoSage releases Spectral Transformer B742B321
GeoSage announced the release Spectral Transformer B742B321, a tool for producing good quality, natural color imagery...
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Obituary
Prof. M.N. Kulkarni passed away last Saturday[5th May 2007], while he was on field work in Koyna area, Maharashtra. Prof Kulkarni, was in the Geodesy and Remote Sensing Division in the Dept of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. He was also the adjunct professor at Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Mumbai.
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INTERVIEW
James Scott and Manish Choudhary on their new development center in India, and MapInfo's acquisition by Pitney Bowes...
James Scott
Vice President (Engineering)
MapInfo, USA
james.scott@mapinfo.com
Manish Choudhary
Managing Director
MapInfo India
manish.choudhary@mapinfo.com
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CORPORATE
ESRI Canada and International Systemap Corporation announce distribution agreement for PurVIEW
"ESRI Canada announced a distribution agreement with I.S.M. to resell PurVIEW, a 3D Geodatabase Mapping Extension for ArcGIS 9.x...
Sewall partners with Terrapoint to provide LiDAR services
James W. Sewall Company announced partnership with Terrapoint to provide LiDAR acquisition, aerial imaging, photogrammetric mapping, and digital orthophotography services...
Pulse announces Terrapoint LiDAR subsidiary signs USD 988,750 contract
Pulse Data announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Terrapoint has signed a USD 988,750 contract to provide surveying in New York State...
1Spatial joins OSNI Partner Programme
1Spatial has become the second member of the new Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) Partner Programme...
GeoDecisions and SANZ unveil Partnership Agreement to provide on demand Imagery via Common Operating Picture
SANZ and GeoDecisions announced a partnership agreement to integrate EarthWhere, SANZ' software, with IRRIS, GeoDecisions' geospatial Web portal for transportation security and logistics...
GCS research and Valtus announce strategic partnership
GCS Research and Valtus Imagery Services announced a strategic partnership involving a custom integration of GeoMarc for Valtus' expanding imagery storage...
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