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"Africa's Lakes: Atlas of our Changing Environment" released by UNEP, satellite images starkly reflect environmental degradation of Africa
The Nairobi-based U.N. agency introduced a new atlas at an international water conference here which shows "the dramatic and damaging" environmental changes sweeping across the African continent…
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Prototype development of world’s smallest SAR completed
In the past, the ability to carry Synthetic Aperture Radar that could perform effectively in the worst weather was limited to only the largest and most costly UAS platforms...
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China to tighten control over foreign surveying, mapping
China will step up supervision of foreigners who conduct surveys and map areas of the country. Foreign organizations and individuals, who engage in surveying and mapping in scientific research and teaching programs...
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NASA and US Forest Service test wildfire imaging technology
NASA and the U.S. Forest Service are testing space agency-developed technologies to improve wildfire imaging and mapping capabilities...
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Russian Defence Ministry announces Glonass full deployment by 2010
Russia's 24-satellite navigational and GPS, Glonass, will be fully deployed by 2010 as per Russia’s Defense Ministry…
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UK to invest another £21m in Galileo
The UK government will invest another £21 million in Galileo GNSS. Firms in the UK are already at the forefront of the £2.4 billion scheme to provide Europe with its own independent system by 2010...
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NASA probes birth of hurricanes
The objective is to understand how hurricanes that slam into the southeastern United States and the Caribbean are formed in West Africa before they go bowling across the Atlantic…
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New station for SPOT 2/4 data reception put into operation in Magadan, Russia
In July the ScanEx Center experts put a new UniScan station into operation in Magadan. This small-size station with a 2.4 meter dish receives data from the TERRA, AQUA (USA) and SPOT 2/4 (France) satellites…
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Bentley ships WaterGEMS V8 XM Edition
Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced on August 30 the commercial release of WaterGEMS V8 XM Edition, a water distribution modeling solution to unify modeling across MicroStation, ArcGIS, AutoCAD, and stand-alone platforms...
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Intergraph to be acquired by investor group
Intergraph's Board of Directors has approved the merger agreement and has resolved to recommend that Intergraph's stockholders adopt the agreement...
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EDITORIAL
The convergence of geospatial technologies with the main stream is an old topic. But, one is still amazed at the novel applications the R&D divisions come up with – the automated agricultural spraying combined with GPS guidance is just another rabbit out of the Trimble hat.
In sync with this news, is the announcement from the government of UK regarding it’s intention to invest another £ 21 million in the GALILEO programme. The announcement from Russia’s defence ministry assuring the complete deployment of the GLONASS constellation by 2010 adds to the world of ‘positional’ happenings this week. Hardware manufacturers of receiver sets for these upcoming offerings are sure to be working overtime. The hope is – we end users better not be forced to believe that we are in three locations at the same instant in time.
About being in multiple places at the same instant – well, the two Japanese scholars who were fined 80,000 yuan and deported by China for recording coordinates of an airport and water facilities in one of it’s provinces, sure must have dearly wished they were some where else when lightning struck. One wonders why anyone would take such a risk when the coordinates could be (within certain accuracy limits) read of from Google Earth… try – 37002’15.84” N , 79051’56.23” E.
Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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Going Open in WebGIS
Jason Lee, Dr. Woon Wei Lee
Malaysia University of Science and Technology
Adopting an open standard is one of the solutions but are the current open source libraries and software sufficiently mature to be used for web mapping applications?
Airborne Lidar Surveys for Large-Scale Mapping
Dr. Réjean Simard
Lasermap Asia, Cyberjaya, Malaysia
rejean@lasermap.com
Pierre Bélanger
GPR Consultants/Lasermap, Boisbriand, Canada
pierreb@lasermap.com
The fact that laser intensity maps can be produced simultaneously with a 3-D terrain layer holds considerable promise
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CORPORATE
CyberCity 3D participates in Strong ANGEL III demonstration
The core site for Strong Angel III will be the operations center at the San Diego Fire Department Fire Rescue Training Facility site, located at...
Intergraph appoints new Managing Director-SGI for Australia
Intergraph has appointed Peter Russell-Smith as Managing Director, Security, Government and Infrastructure, for the Australian business...
NASA awards $101.7 M dollar contract to Assurance Technology Corporation
NASA, in coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES-R) Program, has selected Assurance Technology Corporation...
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NEW PRODUCTS
MapInfo releases MapMarker Plus v12.0
MapInfo Corporation introduced on August 24 MapMarker Plus v12.0, a geocoding tool. MapMarker Plus v12.0 outperforms current geocoding technology...
Trimble combines GPS guidance and rate control to automate agricultural spraying operations
Trimble has introduced its AgGPS EZ-Boom 2010 automated application control system. The system is designed to help farmers cut input costs and reduce operator fatigue by providing...
PC*MILER|Rail 13 for rail industry launched
ALK was the first and remains the only provider of rail routing and mileage software, for rate determination and negotiation, equipment management, rail car mileage auditing and carrier selection, and more...
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