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SPOT Satellite Images of World Trade Center Fires
SPOT satellite image of Manhattan, acquired on September 11 at 11:55 AM EST, 3 hours after two planes crashed into the World Trade Center. The colors result from the use of infrared bands to identify the actual fire hot spots (see red spots near the base of the smoke plume). The .tif and .jpg files were created with SPOT 20 meter resolution imagery. The SPOT satellites orbit at an altitude of 822 km.
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http://www.spot.com/home/news/NYC-091101.jpg &
http://www.spot.com/home/news/NYC-091101.tif
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NASA releases aerial images of attack site
NASA released aerial images from a satellite and the international space station Alpha Wednesday that show the area affected by the attack on the World Trade Center. Details in the NASA images are sketchy, but each one clearly shows a huge plume of smoke drifting away from the site. The first image is from NASA's Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), aboard the Terra satellite. NASA said the white streak stretching due south from lower Manhattan is the smoke plume from the explosion and collapse of the buildings. The photo is from 11:16 a.m. EDT Tuesday. NASA said that the winds were almost due north at the time, while the smoke plume drifted south over New Jersey. The other image taken from the space station shows a better picture of the area where the airliners crashed into the buildings in New York. It was taken Tuesday afternoon at an altitude of 250 miles.
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http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/09/12/satellite.image/index.html
Rich rutile area covered in new maps for August
Amongst the 24 new maps issued in August is the Arrowsmith 1:100 000 scale NATMAP which covers one of the world's major rutile producing areas. Sand mining has been a major industry in the small town of Eneabba in Western Australia for more than 25 years. This area is about 260 kilometres north of Perth and is also popular with for its national heritage areas and wild flowers.
A number of 1:100 000 NATMAPS have now been released which adjoin Arrowsmith. They are Dongara (1839), Mingenew (1939) Geraldton (1840), Indarra (1940) and Beagle Islands (1838), providing up-to-date topographic coverage for the Dongara/Geraldton region. There were four other 1:100 000 scale NATMAPS issued in August and 19 1:250 000 scale NATMAPS covering areas in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia.
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http://www.auslig.gov.au/new.htm#arrowsmith
New Director to put Britain on the map
Ordnance Survey has a new Director to head-up its extensive Data Collection and Management team. Neil Ackroyd will lead the agency's 740 survey, management and support staff in their task of gathering information from all over Britain to keep the country's mapping up-to-date. Mr. Ackroyd, 40, moves from the European Management Team where for most of his career he was European Technical Manager for location-based services company, Trimble. He had a primary role in the adoption of GPS technology across both the public and private sectors, as well as setting-up and developing Trimble's support organisation. Throughout his career, Mr Ackroyd has been closely involved in defining new surveying standards in geodesy and the adoption of GPS. As well as writing many technical papers, he is the author of the book 'Global Navigation - A GPS Users Guide'.
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www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
3D Nature Introduces Visual Nature Studio
3D Nature LLC, makers of the award winning World Construction Set, proudly announces Visual Nature Studio, the newest technology in Photorealistic Landscape Visualization software. VNS extends the stunning realism features of WCS with new capabilities and workflow improvements for GIS Professionals. Visual Nature Studio can import, grid and render terrain in a wide variety of formats, projections and datums. VNS can drape georeferenced remote sensed imagery in various projections to color landscape or control landcover. The new terrain data gridder can process massive data sets in a matter of seconds instead of hours or even days! Task automation features such as Templates, Thematic Maps, Search Queries, Dynamic Linking and automatic Shapefile Reimport ease workflow by effortlessly linking with shapes and attributes to control visualization, speeding project setup, data re-use and adaptation to externally changing data. Render improvements include bump mapping, automatic 3D object alignment and randomization, stereo camera options and simple extruded walls for depicting fences, buildings, regions and more. Interaction improvements include the ability to see Terraffectors™ in all realtime views while working, plus many OpenGL speed and precision enhancements. VNS supports data in a wider variety of image formats now including JPEG, GeoTIFF, ECW, PNG, AVI and Quicktime.
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www.3DNature.com
Webraska launches its Telematics product range
Webraska, the worldwide provider of wireless navigation services and technologies, today announces the commercial launch of its product range dedicated to Telematics at the IAA Show in Frankfurt, Germany (13 to 23 September 2001). This Telematics offer is built around Webraska's Wireless Navigation Platform™, an innovative, proven and competitive server-based platform using a patented technology, IbDN® (Internet-based Distributed Navigation). This allows to prepare information, proximity, itinerary and navigation services in real-time, then highly compress and deliver them in IP-formatted data, at low cost, to mobile and fixed terminals. The platform technology is already being used by leading telecommunication operators to deliver proximity, itinerary and wireless navigation services to their end-users (Orange, Pacific Access, TIM, VoiceStream, M1, KPN, SFR, etc.). The Webraska's Wireless Navigation Platform™ for Telematics can be rapidly deployed on behalf of its customers and can support a range of telematic and telecommunication services.
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http://www.webraska.com/news/popup/20010911_iaa.htm
Asia News
Shangdong Builds China's Largest Software Park
INAN, September 13 (Xinhuanet)-- Qilu Software Park one of China's top ten software bases in east China's Shandong Province, will develop into China's largest software park.
An official from the park said that the park will cover 6.5 square kilometers, and is projected to reach 10 billion yuan ( about 1.2 billion U.S. dollars) in sales revenue within the coming five years.
In addition to software development, production and exports, the park will also focus on training software professionals.
Set up in 1995, the Qilu Software Park realized a total of over 2 billion yuan (about 233 million U.S. dollars) in technology, industry and trade revenue last year. Over 2,600 software products have been developed in the park during the past six years.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
Nasscom summit to push outsourcing
NEW DELHI, Sept. 12 - NASSCOM is organising a one-day India-Europe IT Summit in London on October 23 in association with Financial Times.
The summit, whose theme is `Outsourcing to India: Setting a course for value', will focus on identifying new business opportunities in Europe and also highlight India's IT potential, the Nasscom Chairman, Mr Phiroz Vandrevala, said on Wednesday.
To be inaugurated by Mr Douglas Alexander, Minister for E-commerce, Department of Trade and Industry, UK, the summit is being held as part of Nasscom's initiatives to help the Indian IT companies expand to new markets, Mr Vandrevala said.
A delegation of more than 50 small, medium and large Indian software and service companies is expected to participate in the summit.
"Europe is the second largest ICT market after the US, with a 29-per cent share, and is growing at a pace above the world average,'' Mr Vandrevala added.
"There is huge untapped potential in the areas of IT and e-business that can be outsourced to India, as Europe is also facing a shortage of skills in these areas.''
The summit is expected to present an opportunity for Indian companies to network with over 200 delegates, including key decision makers, bureaucrats, academicians and business leaders.
Financial Times will publish a survey on outsourcing from India in its October 7 issue as part of the summit.
In 2000-01, Indian software exports to Europe fetched revenues of $1.5 billion, posting an increase of 68 per cent over the 1999-00 revenues. There are about 131 Indian firms with a presence in Europe.
Source: Business Line
