A team of NOAA ocean scientists and partners exploring the uncharted depths of an underwater canyon off Oregon has discovered new species of invertebrates and taken images of never-before-seen geological features of Astoria Canyon, found off the mouth of the Columbia River.
Scientists used sidescan and multibeam sonars in an earlier cruise in June and on the NOAA research vessel, Ronald H. Brown, to create new 3-dimensional, high-resolution images of Astoria Canyon that clearly depict never before seen features of walls, outcrops, rocks, faults, and slides. The team also conducted biological, chemical, physical and geological surveys of the canyon using a variety of remote sensing and sampling devices and a sophisticated remotely operated vehicle from Canada, capable of diving to 5,000 meters for more than 24 hours at a time.
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http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/
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Amelia Earhart Plane Possibly Spotted By Satellite
The wreckage of Amelia Earhart's ditched-at-sea aircraft may have been found. High-resolution satellite imagery of Nikumaroro Island in the southwest Pacific has detected what may be remains of the plane resting in water within a coral atoll. Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Frederick Noonan, disappeared in 1937 during an attempt to fly around the world. The disappearance of the flyers set off a massive sea and air search, personally ordered by then U.S. President Roosevelt. Despite a tremendous search effort, no physical evidence of the aviators nor their plane was ever found. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) in Wilmington, Delaware, is mounting an expedition next month to help solve the 64-year old mystery and find Earhart's plane. This time, the team is armed with imagery taken by Space Imaging's Ikonos 2 satellite. Five earlier expeditions to the remote island have recovered artifacts, suspected of being from the lost flight.
Trimble's GPS Pathfinder Pocket Receiver Now Available Online
Trimble has announced that its GPS Pathfinder(R) Pocket receiver for mapping and Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) can now be purchased online at trimblestore.com/mapping. The GPS Pathfinder Pocket is an innovative receiver that packs advanced GPS power for sophisticated results required by GIS professionals. The 5 oz. receiver is rugged and literally fits into your pocket. It's a great plug-and-play solution for virtually all mobile mapping software, and it has the flexibility to operate with a number of popular handheld devices, including pen-based or laptop computers, Pocket PCs, and Palm devices.
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www.trimble.com
TerraSim Links Urban Visualization With GIS Query at ESRI User Conference
TerraSim, Inc., BAE SYSTEMS, and ITspatial LLC, have demonstrated the capability for end-to-end geospatial data capture, automated 3D visual database construction, and real-time interaction between the visual database and a fully correlated GIS database at Booth 115, BAE SYSTEMS, at the 21st Annual ESRI International User Conference. BAE SYSTEMS' SOCET SET® photogrammetric workstation was used to capture key downtown 3D building models with photo-realistic textures and 2D building footprints, as well as accurate locations for important urban features such as street signs, fire hydrants, and trees. TerraSim's 3D urban visualization product, TerraTools®, was then employed to compose a variety of cartographic source data formats into a high-fidelity visual database, including the SOCET SET data ingested as models, San Diego GIS (SanGIS) vector parcel and landuse GIS data as ESRI Shapefiles, and Bentley MicroStation levels for utility placement.
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www.terrasim.com
Highways Maintenance Software contract bagged by Exor Corporation
Exor Corporation, suppliers of the world's leading integrated highways management system, announced today that Egnatia Odos in Greece has selected highways management software from Exor Corporation for use within its maintenance operations department. Essential Egnatia requirements included Locational Referencing System (LRS), Data Acquisition Module, which will support the collection of data in the field via map based software (optionally GPS enabled) and providing quality assurance of data before uploading into the Highways database, and Map Interface Ability to query and edit location referencing and feature data, stored with a base map, through an integrated spatial interface as well as providing information to the corporate GIS (GeoMedia).
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http://www.egnatia.gr/ &
http://www.exorcorp.com/
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The two men in Agra who will guard the Guest
HE is not your conventional cop. At 29, Navneet Sekera, who is SP (Technical) in Lucknow, is an engineer who learnt his skills at Roorkee and IIT. He then went on to work on the Global Positioning System (GPS) Navigation to track vehicles on a digital map anywhere in the world.
Now he has been entrusted with the equally exciting job of ensuring General Pervez Musharraf’s safety at Amar Vilas Hotel, along with older colleague Anand Swaroop.
He and Swaroop are busy checking out the hotel officials and instructing a dozen-odd intelligence officials. With a slight tinge of regret, Sekera says the GPS ‘‘could have been used for the security arrangements in Agra’’. He explains that it’s sometimes difficult to control a long fleet of cars, a task that GPS makes quite easy.
The system is being used for a pilot project in Noida, Seva 100, for the past three months. It increases the efficiency in answering calls at the police control room since it gives the exact location of the caller and the patrol van on digital maps.
Source : Indian Express
Pakistani minister calls for earlier establishment of IT accreditation council
The mushrooming of low-quality information technology educational institutions is creating immense problems for general public, and steps needed to expedite the procedure for establishing the National Accreditation Council, Minister for Science and Technology Prof Atta-ur-Rehman said here on Thursday.
The minister for science and technology was addressing a meeting of the information technology accreditation task force, headed by Afaq Haider.
Some very important discussions were made by the meeting including approval of guidelines, approval of accreditation process and approval of self-study questionnaire, etc.
Source :
www.PakistanLink.com
Korean Government to provide trade financing to IT companies
In a bid to bolster falling information technology exports, the Korean government has decided to provide IT venture firms with trade financing covering approximately 80-90 percent of their export value.
The government also decided to establish export promotion centers in Tokyo, Shanghai, London and a city in the United States by the end of the year to help the country's information technology venture startups make inroads into foreign markets.
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www.KoreanHerald.com
