TOP STORIES
Right to Information Act comes into force in India
 The path-breaking Right to Information Act, giving legal rights to people to seek information from the government, came into force in India this week, placing India among the 55 countries to have such legislation. Interestingly the Act is not clearly vocal about geographic information.
New mapping project to help better administer Tsunami aid delivery
 Aid agencies involved with tsunami-recovery in Sri Lanka will soon be better able to target and administer their resources for post disaster rehabilitation, because of a new mapping project to start from the UN’s Humanitarian Information Centre (HIC) supported by aid agency World Vision.
Kenya turns to digital mapping to fight crime
The Kenya government has embarked on a multi-million shilling project to create detailed digital maps of all the major urban centres in the country, showing street locations and landmarks. The project, to be completed in the next three years, is expected to boost the government's efforts in improving security.
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CONFERENCE REPORT
Intergeo 2005
INTERGEO 2005, the 11th instalment of the world’s largest congress and trade fair for geodesics, geographical information and land management, was organised from 4th till 6th October 2005, at Dusseldorf, Germany. At this year’s 11th anniversary congress, more than 500 exhibitors met with around 20,000 visitors, discussing innovations and key issues
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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Micro level utility mapping for health and social infrastructure by GPS
Tapas Kumar Ghatak
Sr.Gephysicist and Sr.Consultant
UNICEF, Government of West Bengal
India
Mapping of the health infrastructure to the micro level is the ultimate requirement for successful monitoring of the health referral system and distribution of amenities. The GIS/GPS technology though so far being promoted as a tool for planning but never been taken in such a ground level real level application, both in social and physical infrastructure mapping. This paper discusses the role and utility of GPS in undertaking such surveys.
Principle of High-resolution Airborne SAR Aerial triangulation supported by sparse GCPs
Lei Pang
Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping
Jixian Zhang, Mingbo Zhang
Presently, the Western Areas Mapping Mission (WAMM) of China is executing to map the relief in mountainous of western area, where the high-resolution airborne SAR imagery has often been chosen as the irreplaceable remote sensing data resource. At the same time, the mission that how to acquire enough accuracy and quantity of ground control points (GCPs), which are difficult to be measured practically, has become an urgent demand for mapping tasks. This paper analyses the airborne SAR triangulation conditions, puts forward the corresponding mathematic models and introduces the high-resolution airborne SAR triangulation test in China.
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INTERVIEW
"Today there is an immense need for bringing in
innovations"
 Mohan Reddy
With over 3200 employees, Infotech Enterprises Ltd has its areas of core competence spread over GeoSpatial Information Systems and Engineering Design. B V R Mohan Reddy, the Founder, Chairman and CEO of this empire, discusses candidly with GIS Development in an exclusive interview about his thoughts and vision.
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EVENTS
MS Gulf Coast Geospatial Conference 2005
Palace Casino
19 - 21 October 2005
Ocean Springs, MS 39566
U.S.A.
William T. Pecora 16th Memorial Symposium
South Dakota
23 – 27 October 2005
American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
U.S.A
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BOOKS
Have an insight of books from different disciplines of geospatial sciences and its applications and get an idea of leading authors and publishers around the world.
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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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