29th May 2006 VOL.2 ISSUE 22     
The Libraries of Nalanda in India and Alexandria in Egypt were destroyed with a single-minded intention of bringing down civilisations. What is left for the present and hopefully the future, are vestiges and records in obscure writings by scholars from the past. Destroying Libraries, Museums, Centres of Knowledge or any archives has always been the target of invading armies. Today the world has continuous visual records of the status of our planets surface for the last 35 years from the LandSat and for selective places, since the earliest attempts at aerial photography. Fortunately most of these records have multiple copies in multiple locations. So destroying these digital archives will not be as easy as setting the libraries on fire.

The World Fire Atlas now online from ESA has an archive beginning from the late 1995. It unfortunately does not have a record of the 90’oil well fires in Kuwait... but we now have in place a library that will faithfully tell the world of a fire - natural or manmade. The red spots on the WFA if manmade are to serve as reminders to the future generations of the follies of man, to learn from them and prevent them.

  Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net

WORLD THIS WEEK

NASA launches GOES-N weather satellite
Trimble opens India office
NAVTEQ releases complete detailed coverage map for Italy
OSI awarded C$1.9 million mapping business
Blue Marble releases GeoObjects 4.1
AND releases new maps for Slovenia
MapInfo introduces new location intelligence application for IBM
 

TOP STORIES

Historic air photos aid environmental risk reporting

CR Historic imagery coverage is available for the United Kingdom at 50cm resolution with additional urban centres at 10cm resolution or better.



Indian Air Force says Google satellite images not a threat

"Google is not a threat to the IAF. Showing defence establishments is not a big deal."



Canadian province secures 120,000 Sq. Km. of QuickBird imagery

The imagery will be used to support the Land Information Ontario project, which assists government agencies and the public to easily locate, access and use geographic information about the province of Ontario…



EVENTS

BE Conference Europe
11-15 June 2006
Prague, Czech Republic

Intergraph 2006
12-15 June
Disney's Coronado Springs Resort
Orlando, Florida, USA

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


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

ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
Geo-Information based on Very High Resolution Optical Satellites

Prof. Karsten Jacobsen
University of Hannover
jacobsen@ipi.uni-hannover.de


The data acquisition for GIS using very high-resolution space images is becoming more and more popular. With the increased number of satellites and good archives today it is quite easier to get optimal images than before…

Mobile map - Technology for Application

Aymen A. Solyman
Deutsche Gesellschaft Fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Germany
admin@cairolocator.com


This paper presents the process to build a mobile map application running on 2.5G and 3G mobile devices by integrating XML and J2ME...

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CORPORATE

Autodesk reports record revenues for first fiscal quarter

For the first quarter, Autodesk reported record net revenues of $436 million, a 23 percent increase over $355 million reported in the first quarter of the prior year…


European Commission awards contract to EUSI for supply of VHR satellite imagery

The imagery will be collected by the IKONOS, OrbView and future GeoEye-1 satellites. With this contract, European Space Imaging will remain the European Commission’s largest provider of VHR satellite imagery…


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...

NEW PRODUCTS

Leica Geosystems launches Leica ALS50-II LIDAR System

Leica ALS50-II is the second generation of the Leica ALS50 and features notable improvements…


World fire maps now available online in near real time

For a decade now, ESA (European Space Agency) satellites have been continuously surveying fires burning across the Earth’s surface. Worldwide fire maps based on this data are now available to users online in near-real time…

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