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Japan's Growth Strategy Aims to Triple Infrastructure Exports

17 May 2013

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The latest tranche of Japan’s growth strategy will aim to triple infrastructure exports and double f...

Nepal Forest Fire Alert System Launched

17 May 2013

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An operational remote sensing forest fire detection and monitoring system for Nepal was officially l...

Vietnam Will Have Second Remote Sensing Satellite

17 May 2013

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Belgium and Vietnam have decided that Belgian firms, under the guidance of Spacebel will manufacture...

Fourth Satellite Conference Opens in Wuhan

15 May 2013

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The fourth China Satellite Navigation Conference opened today in Wuhan, Hubei province, and will run...

Surveys and Measurements that 'Shaped' India

14 May 2013

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It was in our backyard in Bangalore and Mysore that the greatest surveys were undertaken. Vijay Thir...

Logging Looms in Australia's National Parks

14 May 2013

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Logging would be allowed in NSW national parks and a freeze imposed on the declaration of new conser...

Pune Conducts Door-to-Door Transportation Survey

12 May 2013

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A door-to-door survey for Pune's first transportation status report started on Thursday. The survey,...

Underground Infrastructure to be Mapped in Chandigarh

12 May 2013

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In the coming days, locations of all underground water supply, sewerage and telephone lines will be ...

Tropical Cyclone Could Threaten Refugees in Myanmar

12 May 2013

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A tropical cyclone in the Andaman Sea is headed close to an area in Myanmar where tens of thousands ...

Alibaba to Invest $294 Million in Mapping Firm AutoNavi

11 May 2013

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Alibaba Group, China's largest e-commerce firm, will take a 28 percent stake in digital mapping comp...

Yangon Set to Double to 10 Million in 25 Years

10 May 2013

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Government officials, planners and construction companies at the 2013 Urban Development Conference s...

GNSS Receiver Frequency Reference for Successful Satellite Navigation

10 May 2013

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Many ready-to-run GNSS modules are built with an on-board TCXO encapsulated under a metal lid. For r...

Uruguay, South Korea Agreed on Spatial Data Infrastructure

8 May 2013

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Experts from Uruguay and South Korea will boost the development of the Uruguayan spatial data infras...

Drawing the Line on Google

8 May 2013

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Google’s power and usefulness are well-recognised. An entire generation reveres Google as the god of...

Sri Lanka Readies for Aerial Geophysical Survey to Assess Mineral Wealth

8 May 2013

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In a significant boost to proposed foreign investment in exploiting Sri Lanka’s sub-surface minera...

Singapore's Community Policing System Adds Eyes in the Sky

7 May 2013

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The police showcased a number of new surveillance technologies, such as a pole-camera for surveying ...

ikeGPS Turns to Software Development to Stay Ahead of the Pack

7 May 2013

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Hardware-based tech startups can find themselves turning to software development to stay ahead of th...

India Launched 35 Foreign Satellites, Earned $17.17 Million

6 May 2013

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India started putting into space third-party satellites for a fee in 1999 on its PSLV-C2 rocket. Sin...

New 'Infrastructure Bank' for Asia in the Cards

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A new infrastructure bank for Asia could be set up as a result of an in-depth study into funding by ...

The Launch of Vietnam Satellite Delayed by Weather

5 May 2013

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The launch of the Vietnam’s satellite for earth observation on Vega lightweight rocket was put off u...

Pune Maps Lakaki Lake After Public Outcry

5 May 2013

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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will undertake mapping of the Lakaki lake in Model Colony to fi...

A Satellite to Save Australia? We Should Have One of Those

3 May 2013

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The distribution of water in Australia is changing: rains come more in summer, less in winter. As cl...

Australia Calls for a New Deal for Urban Australia

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A new plan to improve infrastructure funding and strategic planning in Australian cities has been re...

India Pushes to Conserve Urban Ecosystems for Sustainable Development

1 May 2013

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While Gangtok, a picturesque town in Sikkim, is fighting with urbanization to conserve fragile Himal...

Philippines Infrastructure Surge to Create 400,000 Jobs

1 May 2013

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Government spending for roads, bridges and other public works in 2013 is seen to result in more than...

Features

Put Green Cover Under Digital Scanner

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Today, India is in transition; there are numerous independent agents with differing aims and objectives attempting to access the nation's natural resources. The increased workload on environmental regulatory agencies has led to a profusion of procedures that curtail economic growth and governmental transparency. In particular, the protection of India's environment and forests requires the processing of large amounts of geographic information as well as numerous levels of bureaucratic approval. Integrating a decision support system with a Geographic Information System (GIS) — which integrates different datasets and provides users with the ability to compare features across spatial datasets with different origins — could improve environmental regulation in India. Read More

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- Leica GR25 WLAN-enabled GNSS Reference Server Provides Unique Internet Sharing
  8 May 2013 | 87
  The 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…
  
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- Advanced Navigation Releases Spatial Dual GNSS/INS Antenna
  7 May 2013 | 92
  Advanced 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…
  
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- LP960 Mapping Drone Comes with Touchscreen Tablet and Processing Software
  23 Apr 2013 | 162
  LP960, a professional micro civil drone (or UAV, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) from Lehmann Aviation, now comes with a touchscreen tablet running under Windows8 Operating System. The new innovative softwar…
  
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Software

- 1Spatial Launches 1Edit, Powerful Spatial Data Editing Solution
  15 May 2013 | 66
  1Spatial, global specialists in spatial big data management, is today launching 1Edit. A revolutionary, touch-screen-compatible solution, 1Edit offers fast and intuitive data-editing in the field or o…
  
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- SPECIM Announces the Release of SpecSensor SDK, a Software Development Kit for Rapid Hyperspectral Sensor Software Integration
  13 May 2013 | 69
  SPECIM, Spectral Imaging, Ltd., announces the release of SpecSensor SDK, a software development kit for rapid development of data acquisition and camera control application using SPECIM's hyperspectra…
  
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Event Coverage

- Takeaways from 3D Malaysia 2013
  25 Jan 2013 | 1122
  The 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…
  
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- 35th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE) in Beijing
  2 Oct 2012 | 1459
  The 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…
  
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Corporate News

- Spain to Host New Galileo Satellite Service Center
  17 May 2013 | 44
  Europe has inaugurated its newest Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) service center. Located in Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain, the Loyola de Palacio GNSS Service Center will be dedicated to…
- FARO’s Inaugural Asia Pacific 3D Documentation Conference Exceeds Expectations on Content and Delivery
  17 May 2013 | 45
  FARO Technologies, Inc., the world’s most trusted source for 3D measurement technology, hosted its first ever 3D Documentation Conference in Asia Pacific. The flagship regional event saw more than 180…
- Atmospheric Pollution Sensor First Ball Contract with South Korea
  17 May 2013 | 48
  Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a contract from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to build the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) for the Nationa…
- Geospatial World Awards Confered on Leading Organisations
  17 May 2013 | 46
  Geospatial Media and Communications, the leading media agency in Geospatial sector, today conferred its annual Geospatial World Awards to 19 organisations from the domain and it’s end-user agencies fo…
- RIEGL Topo-Hydrographic Airborne Laser Scanner  Awarded as Exemplary Innovation 2013
  17 May 2013 | 67
  On May 15th, RIEGL won the Geospatial World Award in the category Geospatial Technology Innovation Surveying at the Geospatial World Forum Conference in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, for the RIEGL VQ-82…

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surveyor 04.11.2011 19:37

There are steps that are being taken by many surveyors as a community which stand ...
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Jake 30.08.2011 07:47

Maybe they should ask Western Australia GIS users what they think of SLIP before ...
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