ASM Newsletter - December 2

ASM Newsletter - December 2 - 2011

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Clearing Landmines Using Aerial Photographs

Landmines can be spread at rates of more than 1,000 per minute like the butterfly and dragontooth mines dropped from helicopters but it may take an entire day to clear a mere 20 square metres of mine-contaminated land.
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Geospatial Inputs to Variable Rate Agriculture

Agricultural food production is linked closely to geospatial technologies. From an agronomic perspective, variable rate (VR) approaches are about much more than nitrogen fertilizer applications alone. The management of crop production is a multi-discplinary effort that is advanced through geospatial applications.
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Graphisoft Signs MOU with N. China Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute

Graphisoft VP of Business Development Miklos Szovenyi-Lux and Vice President of NCME Li Yanqiang signed the Memorandum setting out the terms of their strategic partnership. NCME and GS agree to establish a NCME-GRAPHISOFT Strategic Partnership Program with the objective to promote and implement Building Information Modeling (BIM) to strengthen the design capabilities of NCME,
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Autodesk Takes BIM to the Cloud at Autodesk University

Autodesk, Inc. today brought the power of the cloud, mobile computing and its industry-defining Building Information Modeling (BIM) portfolio together at Autodesk University. The design, engineering and entertainment software leader showcased a BIM solution to dramatically improve how AEC project team members connect, collaborate and communicate on building projects.
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Australia's Defence Force Moves to Single Point of Truth

A New Geospatial Domain, released earlier this year, the Australian Department of Defence committed to a list of priorities that would deliver “geospatial information superiority and knowledge dominance for Defence, Government and our international partners.”
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AceCad Software Expands its Operations in South East Asia

The partnership agreement signed between the two companies entitles IOCS to promote and distribute AceCad Software’s leading StruCad platform products and services to engineering companies in Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei.
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Kiwi Expedition Captures N. Korean Mountains

An author-mountaineer from New Zealand has successfully completed a 2,300-kilometer journey along North Korea’s portion of the Baekdu-Daegan mountain range, documenting the trip for an upcoming book that will offer a rare glimpse of stunning scenery.
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Pasco Plans Overseas Acquisitions on Yen, Digital-Map Demand

Pasco Corp., Japan’s largest provider of digital maps, plans to buy companies overseas because of the near-record high yen and surging demand in emerging markets caused by construction booms.
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Map Maker To Acquire Majority Stake In China Trans Geomatics

Electronic map maker Navinfo plans to acquire a 51.98 percent stake in China Trans Geomatics using 138 million yuan of the excess funds raised from its initial public offering,reports yicai.com, citing a company filing.
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President Aquino: Geo-hazard Maps to Help Identify Disaster-prone Areas

The President, who was in this southern Luzon city to inaugurate the first Climate Change Academy at the Bicol University campus, announced that 65,000 geo-hazard maps identifying disaster-prone areas were being distributed to local governments.
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New Products & Services
December 2, 2011

SuperWebGIS Application: The Integrated Public Health Education Information

To provide with a map service web for citizens to query public health information, the Public Health Bureau of Miaoli County Government adopts SuperWebGIS to establish the “Miaoli Health Resource Web.”

Spirent Extends Capability of GNSS Simulation Systems

TestDrive-GNSS automates the testing process to significantly reduce overhead costs and testing times associated with characterization of GNSS devices.

Higher-resolution India Maps by 2014

This will benefit India’s nascent geospatial industry as well as the states that are trying to use three-dimensional (3D) maps to dispense public services.
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Trans Tasman Reciprocal Agreement for Cadastral Surveyors

There is world-wide interest in the mutual recognition of surveying qualifications. Australia and New Zealand have had an effective system of mutual recognition for cadastral surveyors in place for almost 120 years. The Trans Tasman Reciprocal Agreement was established in 1892 by the Melbourne Accord.

Glonass Navigation System Beefed Up with Soyuz Launch

The 3,119-pound Glonass M satellite launched at 0826 GMT (3:26 a.m. EST) on a Soyuz 2-1b rocket. It was 12:26 p.m. Moscow time. The three-stage booster finished its job in less than 10 minutes,

China Successfully Launches Remote-sensing Satellite

Called Yaogan XIII, the spacecraft was carried into orbit aboard a Long March 2C rocket at 02:50 Beijing time, according to a press release from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in the northern province of Shanxi.

GeoNetwork Workshop Presentations Now Available

The GeoNetwork User Group held a workshop on 14-15 November at Geoscience Australia. The agenda, presentations and notes from this workshop are now available on the GovDex wiki and the OSDM website.

3D Laser Mapping Expands to Australia

3D Laser Mapping is an international developer of laser scanning solutions including the world’s most accurate mobile mapping system StreetMapper and laser monitoring technology for the mining industry.

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