TOP STORIES
China to measure Great Wall's length
 China would measure the length of the over 7,000-km-long Great Wall once again with the help of the latest remote sensing technology. The current measure of the Great Wall, which is 7,300 kilometres, is likely not very accurate due to the relatively backward measuring equipment and methods in the past.
University Network for Disaster Risk Reduction in Africa
University Network for Disaster Risk Reduction in Africa (UNEDRA) was recently created aiming at strengthening amongst universities in Africa with interest in teaching on disaster risk reduction, through information sharing, capacity building and collaborative research. Some of the main objectives are to share experiences on course activities that have already been initiated.
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
The European Commission has chosen emergency management, land monitoring, and marine services as the first services to be developed for Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES). The Commission will shortly set up a GMES organisational structure to strengthen the management of GMES.
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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Characteristics of New Generation of Digital Aerial Cameras
John Trinder
School of Surveying and SIS
AUSTRALIA
There has been considerable debate recently on the future of film and digital images in photogrammetry. While film images will still be acquired by some organization in the near future, the issue is more likely when, rather than if will the digital technology lead to the demise of the small but currently essential aerial film industry.
ALS applications in transmission industry
David Jonas
AAMHatch Pty Limited
Australia
This article discusses Airborne Laser Scanning technology in context of its application in electricity transmission line survey. The results of such a survey helps to determine the maximum safe loading for each line, allowing each line to run at capacity without endangering the integrity of a network.
Read More Articles on PHOTOGRAMMETRY
Precise Lidar Data And True-Ortho Images
Development of a simulator for airborne altimetric LiDAR
Evaluation of conventional digital camera scenes for Thematic Information Extraction
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INTERVIEW
‘Customer’s satisfaction guides our vision statement’
K K Singh
The man who realized the importance of modern technological tools, sensed the advent of knowledge economy and felt the need of a ‘white collar industry’ in late 70s now heads Rolta – one of the leading five companies in the geospatial industry around the world. K K Singh shares his views and visions with GIS Development.
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BOOK
CURRENT TRENDS IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
A. L. Bhatia
The present book "Current Trends in Global Environment" deals with each and every important and recent issue of environment. It has chapters on present day burning topics like , The Greenhouse Effect, Natural Disasters i.e. Tsunami, Earthquake, Continental Drift, Sustainable Environment, Space Ecology.
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EVENT
First National GIS Symposium in Saudi Arabia
21-23 November, 2005
Le meridian Hotel, Eastern Provice
Saudi Arabia
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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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