Time Line
1996
ESRI India is formed.
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Japan’s ‘Advanced Earth Observation Satellite’ is launched.
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IRS-P3 is launched by India.
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NASA and JPL begin America’s study of Mars by launching ‘Mars Global Surveyor’ (MGS) spacecraft.
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Tej Technologies, authorised dealer for Ashtech Precision Products is established.
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Riding Consulting Engineers India Pvt. Ltd. (RCE) is formed.
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The Prime Minister of India, Mr. P.V. Narsimha Rao starts the process of economic reforms.
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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India established in 1968, starts with the TCS GIS group to provide services in the areas of GIS, Digital Image Processing, Automated Mapping and Facility Management.
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‘The Mountain Natural Resource Information Systems (MENRIS) division by ICIMOD, Nepal is established to facilitate the application of GIS and remote sensing.
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The visionary Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, N. Chandrababu Naidu, leads the state as the most happening place in IT of India.
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Leica India Geo systems Ltd. is established
1998
Tata Infotech is appointed as exclusive distributor of MapInfo products in SAARC region.
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Bentley India is established.
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Kampsax India Ltd. a photogrammetry is formed.
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Tele Atlas starts its operation in India.
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CSDMS organises India’s first and largest conference and exhibition on GIS/GPS/Remote Sensing - "Map India’ 98".
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Eicher releases user-friendly 21" X 35": zonal maps of Delhi.
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The National Task Force on Information Technology and Software Development is constituted. The Government of India accepts all its recommendations.
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For sustainable industrial development of the State, the Government of Uttar Pradesh through the state Industries Policy 1998, proposes a zoning atlas for the entire state so that industry can easily take the decision on the location of a unit.
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India hosts the 12th Plenary meeting of the International Committee on Earth Observation Satellites.
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ISPRS Commission IV hold its first symposium in Stuttgart (Germany) since it became a commission on GIS and mapping in 1996.
1999
The first "GIS Forum South Asia’99" is organised jointly by CSDMS and ICIMOD at Nepal.
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Autodesk India Ltd. is formed.
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Sokkia India is incorporated which is a subsidary office of Sokkia Singapore that markets GPS electronic total station, and optical theodolites, levels and laser products.
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Landsat 7 carrying Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) is launched.
IKONOS is launched
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The second Ministerial Conference on Space Applications for sustainable development is organised by UN ESCAP in New Delhi.
2000
GIS@development becomes monthly.
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IKONOS
IKONOS, the first commercial 720 kilogram high resolution imaging satellite, was launched into a sun-synchronous, near-polar, circular, low earth orbit on September 24, 1999 from the Vadenberg Air Force base. It simultaneously collects one-metre resolution panchromatic and multispectral images and is designed to take digital images of the earth from 680 km. up. Moving at a speed of about seven kilometres per second, the satellite can distinguish objects on the earth’s surface as small as one square metre. The satellite circles the globe 14 times per day, or once in every 98 minutes.
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