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First ever digital map dataset showing weight, width and height restriction applying to road bridges in Great Britain to be launched by Ordnance Survey
The new data will be available to ITN Layer RRI theme customers from the end of...
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GIS-ready land cover maps covering Germany and U.K. to be jointly build by Intermap Technologies and Definiens AG
Available beginning January 2007, EARThemes will consist of a...
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New GPS survey system, office software and Total Station update launched by Trimble
The Trimble R6 GPS System, Trimble Business Center Software and Trimble CU Controller for the Trimble 5600 Total Station are expected to be available in...
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Canada shreds plan to scrap paper maps
"The minister wanted to find out more about it and once he did, he quickly realized that this is not something he wanted to see happen...
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WORLD THIS WEEK
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China focuses on development of applied satellites
Introducing the major tasks of China's space industry in the coming five years, the white paper says...
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GfK Geomarketing releases ‘Purchasing Power Germany’ dataset
Purchasing power varies from region to region. Different purchasing power indices provide information about the disposable income…
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Satellite pictures help farmers back their claims for higher compensation
Roughly 140 kilometre from Mumbai, the capital city of Indian state of Maharashtra, farmers are turning to technology...
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Cartosat-2 launch gets new date
...This will make it the world's second best alongside Ikonos of the US that also gives 1-m imageries; and a close rival to Quickbird that offers an incredibly close 60-cm resolution; all of them from a distance of 800-900 km in space...
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EDITORIAL
The Asia-Pacific countries with their burgeoning population are today being positively looked upon as a world resource for manpower. These very same countries are also some of the world’s largest consumer-product manufacturing hubs. With the improving economies in these regions, the perception of these countries as markets for consumer goods is changing. Many Asia-Pacific countries are also working towards establishing a SDI. It would be worthwhile for the architects of the SDI’s to also consider non-spatial parameters integrated into the NSDI especially the kind of data used by ‘GfK Geomarketing’ to generate the ‘Purchasing Power’ dataset for Germany. In countries with internal monitoring mechanisms, generating such datasets can be and has been quickly achieved. Calculating and declaring the ‘purchasing power’ of a country and hence the consumption potential and directly the available market, with irrefutable statistical backing is a more potent weapon for self preservation than any ‘underground nuclear test’ which the world witnessed last week with such trepidation.
Talking about ‘a level playing field’ is fashionable but who could have thought of ‘Google Earth’ becoming the ‘heavy roller’ for troubled Indian farmers. An association of farmers, protesting against the highhanded government machinery involved in land acquisition, used the high resolution satellite imageries to win a much larger and rightly deserved monetary compensation for their farmlands from the government by proving that their lands were fertile.
Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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OSS and High Speed Satellite Image Registration
Asheer Kasar Bachoo, Frederic Claudel
ICT4E0, Meraka Institute
CSIR, South Africa
abachoo@csir.co.za
There are a number of people that are not willing to embrace OSS - they rely on proven systems for their productivity and development...
A GIS Approach to Disaster Management
E. E. Duncan
Department of Geomatic Engineering
University of Mines and Technology, Ghana
edwduncan@yahoo.com
Accra, capital and largest city of Ghana is situated in the south-east of the Gulf of Guinea, in West Africa. It has been the capital since 1887 and is today one of the most populated fast growing...
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CORPORATE
GfK MACON, GfK PRISMA and GfK Regionalforschung join forces to form GfK GeoMarketing
The three GfK subsidiaries’ joining forces follows many years of successful cooperation...
Intermap Technologies GmbH wins $3.7 million contract
Intermap has already announced $9.6 million in contract services work and $3.2 million in NEXTMap multi-client data licensing...
OGC appoints European Business Development Director
From CCGIS' founding in 1998 she served in various business development roles working with European clients to promote...
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NEW PRODUCTS
ArcPad 7.0.1 launched
At 7.0.1, ArcPad products address issues raised from previous releases. Highlights of ArcPad at this release include…
Leica Geosystems launches Leica HDS6000 scanner
The new Leica HDS6000 will be a key part of the Leica Geosystems’ family of laser scanners that includes the Leica ScanStation and the...
ALTM Gemini launched by Optech
The Gemini is the most recent member of the ever growing ALTM family, complimenting the ALTM 3100EA. While maintaining the full performance...
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