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India and EU fail to ink Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System agreement
The details of the Indian participation were to be completed during the just-concluded summit...
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Do-it-yourself mapping project empowering people to come up with data in their own local region
The two-year-old project is an extension of the open-source software movement, a community of enthusiasts who believe...
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South Korea to introduce new geodetic system
“In the previous system, the farther the measured object was located from the starting point of Tokyo, the bigger errors we had...
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Mountain GeoPortal launched by ICIMOD
Realizing the potential of geographic information (GI) for sustainable mountain development, ICIMOD through its Mountain...
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US State seeking bids for updating digital base map
In one part of the project, bids are requested for aerial photography of the state that provides an orthorectified view or a perspective that is...
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WORLD THIS WEEK
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ScanEx’s UniScan ground station successfully captures data from ImageSat International EROS-B commercial satellite
Starting from 2005 about 800 scenes have been acquired in Russia from EROS-A satellite...
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Provisional Certification programme announced by ASPRS
As the first university to offer ASPRS Provisional Certification, North Carolina Central University (NCCU) is in...
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Trimble VRS Now service to be launched in Germany
The commercial subscription service will provide surveyors, civil engineers and geospatial professionals...
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US agency says China used laser to jam US satellite
The Pentagon's National Reconnaissance Office Director Donald Kerr has acknowledged the incident...
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Google Earth, MSN Virtual Earth make aerial imaging companies fly high
As a result, scores of decades-old mom-and-pop aerial-mapping firms are suddenly thriving, along with the nation’s...
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EDITORIAL
To ask for ‘all info about the Himalayas’ is a tall claim – but the MountainGeo Portal gives just that. This Mountain Knowledge Hub Initiative from ICIMOD should be the base camp for any serious seeker of information about the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. The casual collector of goodies can also have his fill at http://menris.icimod.net/gallery/picgallery.php. Talking about initiatives - here’s one for all us troubled souls who find government restrictions on spatial data or in plain simple terms maps, a pain... The OpenStreet Map project is a Do-it-yourself effort now almost two years old. This Web-based project aggregates hundreds of users' personally collected GPS data into master files that trace out thousands of streets and byways, primarily around the United Kingdom says Steve Coast, the founder of the project. Lets hope others around the world pull up their socks and DO IT, though the Indian effort of ‘Mapping the Neighbourhood’ by school kids, started in 2003 is in hibernation.
After signing up for the Galileo programme, India has stalled signing the final agreement raising concerns related to the access that the satellite system would have to all geographical and tactical locations in the country. Other apprehension raised is the uncertainty over uses of the data. In a cooperative effort such as the Galileo project, ‘trust’ will be a major factor along with the pressing needs to have an alternative to the US GPS facility. The question raised here couple of weeks ago about the right of a country to allow or disallow imaging over its ‘sovereign space’ can also extended to over flights of any satellite. This debate has again reared its head as the US claimed that China used a laser to jam one of its satellites. I invite your opinion with regards to the concept of ‘sovereign space and national privacy in context with high resolution imaging’.
Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net
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INTERVIEW
Geo-Web,GML Present and Future
Ron Lake
Chairman & CEO,
Galdos Systems Inc.
There were a number of attempts at making things like Google Earth before (e.g. TerraServer) and none really caught the public imagination. What Keyhole did was realize a few key points that the others missed, namely: 1)You need global coverage 2)You need some way to add your own information locally... 
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CORPORATE
Intergraph shareholders to vote on sale
Stockholders of record as of October 11 will be able to vote at the special meeting...
Hirayama appointed President, CEO of Topcon Positioning Systems-Australia
The announcement was made by Ray O'Connor, TPS President and CEO, who will be Chairman of the TPSA board...
BAE Systems closes acquisition of National Sensor Systems
The aerospace and defense giant will integrate the company into its advanced technologies segment...
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NEW PRODUCTS
NetVIEW for Google Earth launched by MWH Soft
The application enables better decisions by overlaying GIS and network modeling results on top of precision satellite imagery. This information can be shared across departments for a complete...
Visual Learning Systems launches LIDAR Analyst 4.1 for ArcGIS
New capabilities include direct processing of point clouds in .LAS format, extraction of realistic...
Motion Compensation and Enhanced Range option for Optech’s ILRIS-3D announced
Optech Incorporated has announced the release of two additional features for its ILRIS-3D laser scanner...
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