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India signs up for Galileo project
Satellite positioning system Galileo has extended its arms outside of Europe, with India signing up as a partner in the project. India joins China, Israel and Ukraine, who are already members of the program. Galileo, the first global positioning system to be controlled by civilian rather then military authorities, is due to go operational in 2008.
Illinois Department of Agriculture develops an enterprise GIS strategy
The Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) in U.S. is developing an enterprise GIS strategy to better use state agricultural data to coordinate a response to an agroterrorism attack. State agriculture departments bear much of the responsibility for safeguarding agricultural resources against acts of agroterrorism.
Irish mapping project reaches milestone
The first phase of Ordnance Survey Ireland’s (OSI) project to develop a digital image archive containing historical maps dating back to 1837 has been completed. The archive will ultimately hold a complete record of the Irish landscape from the earliest hand-drawn maps.
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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Web 3DS Business Models
Sudhagar Nagarajan
Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
Germany
The recent advancements in Web technologies have shown great development in bringing the 3D object to the web. Here with this paper we restrict only to the web 3D city models. There is an increasing need for 3D-descriptions of urban areas for various applications such as town planning, microclimate investigation or transmitter placement in telecommunication. But this information is not available 2D city models. This is the basic requirement for 3D city models. Also when we talk about the Technology, it is essential to discuss the cost to reach that. In this paper, the basic application areas of 3D city models and how Web 3D city models are beneficial to them are discussed along with some business models.
Co-author : Karuppasamy Sudalaimuthu
Creation of a 3D Urban GIS Database: Data Fusion Approach Technical Session on "Photogrammetry and 3D Visualization"
Don Wicks
Abdul Rauf Campos-Marquetti
Spectrum Mapping, LLC
Denver
This project was centered on the development of a 3D Urban GIS Database for the U.S. Army Research Development Engineering Command that would be used for the purposes of mapping and simulation-visualization. Spectrum's role was to physically collect (using its in-house LIDAR, Digital Camera and hyperspectral sensors), and develop the necessary source data required to construct a 3D urban database using real-time urban data.
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FEATURE OF THE WEEK
Monitoring crime with GIS
 Geospatial technologies have become an important and useful tool in the implementation of crime control and monitoring activities. Several instances around the world reveal how helpful the geospatial technologies have been in this sphere. Crime mapping using GIS in West Midlands Waterways has benefited the area around Wolverhampton Top Lock in U.K, by reducing crime in the area by half. West Midlands Waterways had been recording all reported incidents of crime and anti-social behavior since 2002, when British Waterways began investigating new ways of tackling the problem. As a result of the geospatial data and maps gathered by West Midlands, hotspot areas were clearly identified across the waterway unit. This enabled British Waterways to use the information in partnership with other organisations to target resources and reduce the level of crime in the areas worst affected.
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