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Features
Trimble Focuses on the Convergence of Geospatial Information
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- Published on Thursday, 23 May 2013 23:46
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Peter Large, vice president of Channel Development at Trimble, spoke at last week’s Geospatial World Forum in Rotterdam. He wove in the history of mapmaking, including the fact that Mercator was born less than 100 miles from the conference site, and remarked that when we look back at today, we may compare the explosion of technology and mapmaking spurred by the Internet in the same light as the Mercator’s time of the renaissance.
Indonesia and Korea Establish Cooperative Mapping Effort for the North Coast of Java
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- Published on Wednesday, 22 May 2013 03:36
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The northern coast of Java is important for the Indonesian people, with the north coast road forming the lifeblood of transportation on the island. Improved road infrastructure and growing manufacturing centers along the coast, are making the region the region an important driver for the national economy. Manufacturing industries from small scale to large scale can be found along the coast. For this reason, the region needs to be mapped in detail to determine the assets that exist in the region.
Surveying Companies Discuss Rapidly Changing Infrastructure Workflows
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- Published on Friday, 17 May 2013 00:19
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The plenary day of the Geospatial World Forum took place this morning in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, with presentations from infrastructure information leaders. Present on the stage were leaders from Topcon, Bentley Systems, Autodesk, and HP, with each presenting their vision for where the infrastructure workflow is heading. In addition to new technologies, the presenters also addressed some of the challenges they face. Following are summarized comments from each of the presenters.
Connecting Geomatics Advancement to the China Dream
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- Published on Friday, 17 May 2013 00:11
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Dr. Li Pengde, deputy director general, National Administration of Surveying and Mapping (NASG) of China, addressed the Geospatial World Forum in Rotterdam this week. The vision of the country is for dynamic mapping and open geoinformation services, with ongoing investments in their positioning and remote sensing satellites, and increasing economic benefits from Chinese geomatics companies doing business abroad.
China’s national goal for geomatics advancement ties into the emerging China Dream that has the country working together for advanced development. Ecology has become an important driver, with directives to better monitor changes on the land through dynamic surveying, with change monitoring and analysis, providing data, information and knowledge to decision makers.
Google Adds a Time-Lapse Viewer to Explore Our Changing Planet
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- Published on Friday, 10 May 2013 00:39
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Together with the U.S Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and TIME magazine, Google released an interactive time-lapse viewer of a full 25 years of images of Earth. The viewer provides insight into our changin planet with millions of Landsat satellite images. The Timelapse project, viewable on the TIME magazine site, provides a number of interactive snapshots of areas that have seen dramatic change.
Hardware
ITT Exelis Completes Successful Signal Sentry 1000 Product Integration
22 May 2013 | 50An ITT Exelis (NYSE: XLS) product that detects and locates GPS interference sources in 3-D by using longitude, latitude and altitude has successfully completed a significant integration milestone.…
Leica GR25 WLAN-enabled GNSS Reference Server Provides Unique Internet Sharing
8 May 2013 | 98The Leica GR25 GNSS Reference Server has now been enhanced with a standard on-board WLAN module to extend its Ethernet and mobile wireless internet connectivity options. This is accompanied by the ne…
Advanced Navigation Releases Spatial Dual GNSS/INS Antenna
7 May 2013 | 104Advanced Navigation announced today the release of Spatial Dual, their new dual antenna GNSS/INS. Spatial Dual is a ruggedized miniature GPS aided inertial navigation system and AHRS that provides acc…
Software
Blue Marble Releases Global Mapper 14.2 with Many New Scripting Tools
22 May 2013 | 68Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of Global Mapper version 14.2. This update to the company's popular desktop GIS software offers many new and improved features and functions.…
Avenza Releases Geographic Imager 4.2 for Adobe Photoshop
21 May 2013 | 56Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and the popular PDF Maps mobile app, is pleased to announce the release of Geographic Imager 4.2 for Adobe Pho…
Event Coverage
Takeaways from 3D Malaysia 2013
25 Jan 2013 | 1139The First 3D Malaysia 2013 conference with the theme “3D Data for Sustainable Development” was jointly organized by DES Mapping and Intermap, USA. in Parkroyal Kuala Lumpur on January 22nd. Over 120 p…
35th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE) in Beijing
2 Oct 2012 | 1483The 35th International Symposium for Remote Sensing of the Environment (ISRSE35) is to be held in Beijing from 22-26 April, 2013. This is the first symposium in the series to be held in China. The fir…
Corporate News
SimActive Software Used for Forestry in Southeast Asia
23 May 2013 | 36SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce that Correlator3D™ is being used for forestry projects in Southeast Asia by PT Credent Teknologi. SimActive…
Airborne? Spaceborne? It's Melbourne!
22 May 2013 | 47With the 2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium less than two months away (July 21-26), now is the time to register. This year’s global summit will showcase world leading rese…
Global award for Groundwater Atlas
22 May 2013 | 57Australia’s National Atlas of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDEs) has won the 2013 Geospatial World Application Excellence Award for Environment Protection and Monitoring. The coveted prize was pr…
Location Forum Releases Groundbreaking Data Privacy Guidelines
21 May 2013 | 272The Location Forum’s Privacy Council released the public version of their Location Data Privacy: Guidelines, Assessment &a&ecommendations today.&n hese groundbreaking Guidelines represent the first in…
Mobile GIS, SuperSurv 3.1 Helps Improve Drinking Water and Sanitation Services in France
21 May 2013 | 64Supergeo Technologies announced that SuperSurv 3.1, the mobile GIS software for Android devices, has chosen by Regie Dignoise des Eaux to carry out efficient field data collection and surveying for lo…
Coming Events
| Mon Jun 03 USA - HxGN Live 2013 |
| Sat Jul 06 USA - Esri Survey Summit |
| Mon Jul 08 USA - Esri International User Conference |
| Tue Jul 16 Australia - IGNSS 2013 |
| Sun Jul 21 Australia - IGARSS 2013 |
| Mon Aug 05 Australia - 18th Annual Geospatial Solutions Conference |
| Sat Aug 17 New Zealand - Maori GIS Association National Conference |
| Mon Aug 19 Japan - Summer Seminar on GNSS |
| Wed Aug 21 Thailand - 5th International Conference on HealthGIS 2013 |
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