Japan Explores the Use of Google Modeling Tools for Redevelopment

As Japan works to rebound from the devastating earthquake and tsunami, leaders, planners and academics are working to put back the pieces and lay the groundwork for new development. Leaders are conscious of the world's attention, and the opportunity to engage citizens in the planning process while building in an environmentally-friendly and sustainable way that also reduces risks from future disasters.
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GeoMobile Map Hong Kong Launches

The Lands Department of Hong Kong launched a new mobile mapping application called "GeoMobile Map Hong Kong" this week, allowing users to view detailed government maps and to search for community facilities while on the move. This latest offering follows the launch of the popular online web map portal GeoInfo Map that was launched by the Lands Department in May of last year.
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Cartography: Changing Perspectives on Mapping

Cartography is more prominent today than it has ever been. Changing technology is allowing more people to create and use maps and they are designing and editing them with tools that are easier to use, and which provide improved capabilities. How we map the world around us is a strong indication of the type of society we live in, and how it impacts each of us.
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Event: 2nd International GIS for Rail Summit

The 2nd International GIS for Rail Summit was recently held in Paris, France. This Esri organised event was sponsored by the International Union of Railways (UIC), a confederation of 197 worldwide members from 5 different continents. The event provided an opportunity for the participants to share interests, discuss issues and to learn about member initiatives involving geographic information system (GIS) use for rail.
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Birla Institute of Technology Adds Centers of Excellence on Remote Sensing

The Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, will add centres of excellence for climatology, remote sensing and disaster management. BIT vice-chancellor Ajay Chakravorty, a professor in electronics and communication engineering, said the departments of remote sensing and disaster management that were already functional in BIT were being upgraded as centres of excellence.
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High-Speed Rail Poised to Alter China

Even as China prepares to open bullet train service from Beijing to Shanghai by July 1, this nation’s steadily expanding high-speed rail network is being pilloried on a scale rare among Chinese citizens and news media. Complaints include the system’s high costs and pricey fares, the quality of construction and the allegation of self-dealing by a rail minister who was fired earlier this year on corruption grounds.
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Surveyors Urged To Leverage On Innovation

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Datuk Seri Douglas Uggah Embas, said the involvement of the surveyors, whose professional practices spanned across various disciplines, would constitute a significant contribution to a sustainable construction.
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Online Mapping Services Mark Revolutionary Bases

China launched a series of "red" mapping services online on Wednesday to mark the revolutionary bases and historic sites across the country. The country's surveying and mapping institutions have launched 10 national and local systems of online mapping services marking the "red" historic sites.
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Google Suspends Street View Mapping in India After Police Raise Concerns

Police in southern India have halted Google from taking pictures of streets for its popular Street View services until it gets approval from the federal government.
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City of Melbourne Improves Community Services with ERDAS APOLLO

Using ERDAS APOLLO Essentials - Image Web Server, CoMPASS unites disparate geospatial datasets and rapidly serves them to city employees and contractors within a comprehensive, easy-to-use interface that enables them to improve community services while minimizing labor, time and costs for the City.

Bruker - Infrared RS with Hyperspectral Imaging System HI 90

Following Bruker's acquisition of Sigma ElectroOptics GmbH in December 2010, Bruker is now launching its expanded product line for the remote infrared detection of gases in industrial, environmental and homeland security applications.

TABI-1800 Wildfire Airborne Strategic Mapping Operations Underway

This new imager recently underwent field trials over SRD’s Cache Percotte Grid operational test site to prove its capabilities in detecting fire hotspots and in rapid data turnaround to field-ready fire mapping products.

3D Machine Control Trade In Program: Topcon

That’s right, this program applies to not only that competitive junk but to the older systems from TPS as well! Contractors make more money when investing in the latest technology such as 3D-MC2. The productivity gains, material control and engineering savings you get from our latest machine control systems goes directly to the bottom line. 

Esri Creates Ocean Basemap

The Ocean Basemap is now available as a cached map service in ArcGIS Online. The first basemap of its kind, the Ocean Basemap is designed to support a variety of maritime GIS applications.

OpenTopography v 3.2 Adds TIN-Based Gridding

A TIN model represents the landscape as a surface composed of contiguous and non-overlapping triangles constructed between the cloud of lidar returns. Within each triangle the surface is represented by a plane. A raster DEM is then constructed by sampling the triangulated surface elevation at the DEM nodes.