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EU unveils first Galileo satellite
The first of some 30 satellites of the European Union's Galileo satellite navigation program was unveiled this week one month before it will be launched into space. The "Giove A" satellite will be launched in the second half of December by a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
EADS Fleximage study on Google Earth
EADS Fleximage is issuing a study covering the changes, the outlets or threats Google Earth product generates in the geographical information and Defence & Security world. Fleximage, founded in 1989, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EADS, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company.
Satellite shows Greenland's ice sheets getting thicker
While the edges of the glaciers are melting, the ice sheets in Greenland's interior are getting thicker, according to satellite data collected over the last 11 years. On average the ice sheets have got thicker by about six centimetres each year, the researchers say.
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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Seismic loss estimation for Lalitpur
Cees J. van Westen
ITC
The Netherlands
The main objective of the research project, entitled “Strengthening local authorities in risk management” is to develop spatial information systems for municipalities, which will allow local authorities to evaluate the risk of natural disasters in their municipality, in order to implement strategies for vulnerability reduction.
Municipal GIS: The Abu Dhabi experience
Marcin Kunka
Head of GIS Section
Abu Dhabi town planning department
UAE
Co-Authors
Marek Polak
Balaji Krishnamurthy
Ali M Abou-Seif
GIS is a very essential part of day-to-day operations in a municipality. This paper showcases the ways in which GIS is being utilised by the Abu Dhabi Municipality in UAE to re-engineer and support all major business processes across the local government in order to increase and provide a greater return on the investment of public money
Read More Articles on MUNICIPAL GIS
Municipal GIS: The Gorakhpur experience
A GIS based Water Demand Analysis for Municipal Application
Logistics Management and Spatial Planning for Solid Waste Management System
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INTERVIEW
“There are plans to expand the use of GIS in the future”
Uri Lupolianski
The municipality of one of the oldest cities in the world has been applying GIS to serve its citizens better. In an exclusive interview with GIS Development Mayor of Jerusalem - Uri Lupolianski shares Jerusalem Municipality’s experience of using GIS.
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BOOK
Remote Sensing in Geomorphology
SM. Ramasamy
With remote sensing deepening its roots in all fields, the scope of geomorphology too has phenomenally widened as fabrications and animation of modern geologic/geomorphic processes are being easily done by remote sensing.
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EVENTS
8th SOUTH EAST ASIA SURVEY CONGRESS
21 - 25 November 2005
Brunei
BIG and Survey Department, supported by FIG
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Company Directory
View numerous companies across the world with details of their competences enlisted and updated in the directory of
companies at GISdevelopment.net every month in 11 different categories.
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