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Damocles sword of SA no
moreThe US Department of Defense has
announced that it intends to stop procuring Global
Positioning System (GPS) satellites with the capability
to intentionally degrade the accuracy of civil signals.
This capability, known as Selective Availability (SA), will no
longer be present in the next generation of GPS
satellites.These winds of change are market driven as
GLONASS and Galileo are comming up as competitors to the
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Wiki City creates real-time
mapsIn the 'Wiki City Rome' project, an MIT team
obtained data anonymously from cell phones and other
devices to map Rome in real time. The Wiki City project,
run by MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory, aims to apply
wiki technology to the map-making process. The project's
ultimate product will permit anyone to upload content to
a map and utilize Semantic Web principles to cross
search multiple layers of information.
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Stringent Environment
monitoring in 'God's Own Country'To
protect the environment in this globally popular tourist
destination in the tropics, The Kerala State Council for
Science, Technology and Environment, India has taken up
a State-wide environment monitoring programme to keep a strict
tab on pollution of air, soil and water sources.
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Product news
review
Now along with exploring the
digital globes like Google Earth, the GIS professionals
can use the latest 3Dconnexion Space Naviagator 3D mouse, for their
daily spatial analysis routines, as it has been upgraded
to be compatible with the ESRI ArcGIS Desktop products.
In line with last two weeks, this week also saw
developments in the LIDAR market. VLS announced the new
release of LIDAR
Analyst 4.2 for ArcGIS. On the similar lines another
company, Minecode Corporation, announced the release of
LiDAR-M version 3.2, stand-alone LiDAR data processing
software which has been developed on Microsoft .NET
technology.
At INTERGEO 2007 show, Orbit GIS
further introduces two of their new product lines, the
first being Microdrone UAV, a small autonomous,
ultra light and very stable aerial vehicle that can be
GPS controlled to take vertical pictures along a GPS
track. These images can then be processed to a
photogrammetric project for stereo captation and
orthoimage production. And the second, was the Strabox 3D viewing system, designed to
have optimal 3D view, brilliant and flicker-free
viewing. Strabox is developed as viewing system to Orbit
GT’s photogrammetric suite STRABO and is available in
19” and 20” screens.
Other Product
news
GE Smallworld Global Transmission
Office 4.1 released
LeadDog releases North Korea
map
Tele Atlas and MAD MAPS launches Tele
Atlas Touring Series
Aerials Express releases new Aerial
Mapping Software
HoudahGeo Photo Geocoding for the
Mac
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News Cast
By Hrishikesh
Samant
This News Cast is 11.43
minutes long and contains news and discussions on the
happenings in the geospatial domain.
Podcast
“Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA): An Interoperable Web
Services Architecture for a better Access &
Diffusion of Geospatial Information”
Vincent
Dessard
IONIC
Keynote address on the
occassion of Map Asia 2007, Kuala Lumpur.
To
view the power point prestentation click here...
The
Podcast is 29.35 minutes long.
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Interview |
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“Recognizing
changing market trends combined with our technology
leadership has made it possible to continuously provide
our customers with enhanced productivity
solutions.”
Jurgen
Kliem
General Manager, Trimble Survey
Division
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Benefits of Global
Warming...
Dr. Hrishikesh Samant