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Red Cross utilizes GIS for Hurricane relief efforts
The Red Cross is using GIS for relief efforts following hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Computer mapping, spatial analysis, and GIS Web services have assisted the agency in providing communities and displaced people with food, clothing, shelter, and other essential services.
Google ready to discuss imaging concerns
Internet search engine Google has said it takes India’s concerns about satellite imaging of the country seriously and has expressed its willingness to have a dialogue on the issue. Over the past few months alone, Google’s freely available technology has been used for vital purposes ranging from fighting forest fires to emergency response, rescue, and relief in natural disasters, such as tsunamis and hurricanes.
Aerial photography sheds light on Kublai Khan's capital
Aerial photography has helped shed new light on the capital of Kublai Khan's empire, also known as Xuanadu in Marco Polo's Travel Notes. The description of the metropolis Shangdu (Xuanadu) by Marco Polo some 700 years ago has somewhat been confirmed by aerial photography.
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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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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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Protecting coastal communities through civil maritime surveillance
Mark Womersley
Manager Environmental Systems,
BMT Asia Pacific
Singapore
It is argued that the environment can now be considered a security issue because of the increasingly unsustainable features of modern development.
Earthquake Disaster Management in China
Tang Aiping
Associate Professor
School of Civil Engineering
Harbin Institute of Technology
P. R. CHINA
Co-Author : Wen Aihua, Tao Xiaxin
China is one of the countries suffering from the most severe natural hazards all over the world. Although some great progress have been gained in natural hazard mitigation, the natural disasters bring on big economic loss.
GIS in Flood Hazard Mapping
 G.Venkata Bapalu
ESRI India,
India
Co-Author : Rajiv Sinha
Flood Hazard Mapping is a vital component for appropriate land use planning in flood-prone areas. It creates easily-read, rapidly-accessible charts and maps.
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INTERVIEW
"GPS applications fields have touched so many unexpected areas"
Glen Gibbons is the managing director of Gibbons Media & Research LLC, a Eugene, Oregon-based business providing news and analysis in the field of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). He is a former group editorial director & associate publisher, geospatial business, for Questex Media (previously Advanstar Communications). In this capacity, he led the editorial and product development activities of several business-to-business publications, both print and on-line versions from 1989 to 2005. He discusses his thoughts and vision with GIS Development in an exclusive interview.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
GIS Institute, a division of GIS Development Pvt Ltd has launched 2 months full-time training programme " Diploma in Geo-informatics"(GIS, GPS and Remote Sensing). Fresh batch will start from 7th November 2005.To register logon: http://www.gisinstitute.net
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Company Directory
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