• Editorial
  
  

DEPARTMENTS

• Disaster Forecasts: A Relook
  Saurabh Mishra
  The recently released Global Survey of Early Warning Systems (EWS) takes stock of the prevalent EWSs and enthuse the global community to come together in evolving a joint system..
  
  
• Geoinformatics for Disaster Risk Management
  Prof. N.V.C. Menon, Rani Sahay
  


• 3D !!! - HOW?
  Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
  The evolution and survival of a large number of species on earth has been dependent on their evolved sense of ‘3D vision’. In today’s world, we two eyed humans take the third dimension for granted...
  
  
• 3D Model of Zurich International Airport for GIS Applications
  Kilian Ulm
  The 3D model was designed for use in GIS applications, CAD environments and visualization. A combination of 3D data with 2D informative attribute data was accounted for in developing the model to allow for queries...
  


• Accuracy Assessment of Freely Available Global DEMs in Indian Context
  Amitabh, B. Gopala Krishna, P. K. Srivastava
  This paper presents an assessment, from a user point of view, of the characteristics of the freely available Global DEMs in Indian context. The available global DEMs are SRTM and GTOPO...
  
  

INTERVIEWS

• We want Web based applications to get best representation of the real world
  Johannes Kebeck
  Microsoft Virtual Earth Technology Specialist, UK
  
  
• Right now we have a clear focus on TerraSAR-X
  Nikolaus Faller
  Chief Operating Officer, Infoterra GmbH
  
  

CONFERENCE REPORT

• Map Asia 2006