ASM Newsletter - December 9

ASM Newsletter - December 9 - 2011

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Interoperability and Data Exchange for the World's Oceans

Interoperability and data format exchange capabilities are important to further the sharing of scientific results and improving collaboration about the world's oceans. The World Ocean Council has embarked on the challenge of bringing together the many diverse businesses involved in sea stewardship.
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Marine Surveying and Environmental Planning

Marine surveys are conducted to acquire underwater geophysical information. In most cases, marine surveyors will acquire 3D data using sounding equipment.
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Large-Format Scanning Improves Workflows

Large-format scanners have been a part of mapping workflows since the early days of paper to digital conversions. While the basic technology that these scanners employ hasn't changed dramatically, these tools continue to be fine-tuned for speed and accuracy, as well as for improved workflows and greater efficiency.
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Radar Imaging Provides Advantages in Cloudy Asia

Radar imaging, which bounces electromagnetic imagery from a target and measures the returning energy, has key advantages for data collection because of its ability to identify activity and produce imagery that would not be visible otherwise.
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RapidEye:Third Coverage of China Contracted by the MLR

RapidEye announced today that it has signed a contract with China’s Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) to cover almost five million square kilometers of China over the next few months. This is the third consecutive year that RapidEye was a successful bidder to cover China for the MLR.
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Mipela GeoSolutions Opens An Office in Melbourne

This is in line with one of the company’s “Twenty14 Strategic Plan” key objectives of expanding geographical presence. The Melbourne office has been opened to serve the company’s existing and new clients in South East Australia in the energy and infrastructure sectors.
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FOIF Exhibits Surveying Technologies In Fuzhou

The first national mapping of geographic information technology and equipment exhibition in Fuzhou, Fujian Strait International Convention and Exhibition Center, attracted a field of surveying and mapping technology including nearly 200 enterprises. The exhibition organized by the China Institute of Surveying and Mapping, GIS mapping,
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Nokia Develping 3-D Mapping for Use in Buildings

According to an article on Into Mobile, even as Google tries to introduce accurate mapping guiding systems, Nokia has developed a hyper-accurate mapping technology that might be made commercial some time in the near future.
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Singapore Satellite Positioning Reference Network

The Singapore Satellite Positioning Reference Network, SiReNT is a nation-wide reference network developed to support real-time high precision land surveying and other positioning applications. An initiative by Singapore Land Authority (SLA),
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State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture

It is an 'advocacy' report, to be published every three to five years, and targeted at senior level decision makers in agriculture as well as in other sectors. SOLAW is aimed at sensitizing its target audience on the status of land resources at global and regional levels.
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University of Sharjah in UAE Select SuperGIS Desktop 3

Founded in 1997, The University of Sharjah is a semi-governmental higher educational institute in the Emirate of Sharjah, UAE. The University is famous for the education in Social Science, Business Administration, Engineering, and Medicine not only in UAE but also in the Gulf Region.
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IIC Announces the Award of a Contract from Land Information New Zealand

The production work will continue until mid-2012 with an option to renew for additional charts. LINZ is the latest in a series of hydrographic offices that have contracted IIC for a variety of chart production services within the CARIS HPD environment.
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Asian Cities Must Adopt Sustainable Transport Systems

Cities in Asia should transform their transport systems to provide growing urban populations with greater mobility while ensuring a healthy and attractive urban environment. This is stated in a new book published jointly by the Asian Development Bank and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
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FIG Working Week 2012

It's according to these values that we chose the subject of our Italian Working Week: "Knowing to manage the territory, protect the environment, evaluate the cultural heritage". The CNGGL delegation at the FIG Working Week in Marrakech was particular numerous, and most of its members are young people. They are all active in different FIG Commissions and truly embody the idea of "Young Surveyor".
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New Products & Services
December 9, 2011

WA ‘mineral mapped’ With Satellites

The WA ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection) map was recently released by the Centre of Excellence for 3D Mineral Mapping (C3DMM) and marks a milestone in mineral exploration putting WA at the forefront of geosciences.

PenBay Solutions Releases its Building Navigator Widget

Designed for the Esri Flex Viewer 2.4, the Building Navigator widget allows users to click on a building footprint and drill down inside the building to view floors, spaces, and other data layers.

China Global Investment Tracker Interactive Map

The China Global Investment Trackercreated by The Heritage Foundation is the only publicly available, comprehensive dataset of large Chinese investments and contracts worldwide beyond Treasury bonds.

Manas Petroleum Mongolia Completes Seismic Campaign 2011

The seismic contract with Sinopec provided for a firm program consisting of 532 km full fold data and an optional program of up to an additional 1,106 km full fold data.

GLONASS Becomes Widely Used by Mobile Device Producers

The Russian head of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media Igor Schegolev announced that a significant number of mobile device producers have started using GLONASS-enabled navigational chips, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes.

FARO Edge in PolyWorks V12

PolyWorks V12 is the standardised solution for visual and tactile coordinate measuring technology and for the processing and evaluation of three dimensional data in industrial applications.

Visualising Disaster with Team Thailand

Poramate Minsiri, an internet pioneer in applying technology to disaster relief, is setting up interactive maps for monitoring natural disasters.

New Software Makes Easy Work of Simulating GLONASS Signals

The inclusion of GLONASS into the recently released iPhone 4S highlighted the penetration the Russian satellite system is now enjoying in consumer devices.

Kubotek KeyView 11.1.0 Supports CATIA V6

The new version now also supports the file format CATIA V6 3D. Other files formats have been added and updated (VRML, Parasolid V24 and CREO Parametric V1.0).

Version 3.1 of BlomWEB Viewer

Following development of the BlomURBEX API, Blom is pleased to announce that version 3.1 of the BlomWEB viewer is now available to customers.

Maximizing the Co-benefits of REDD-Plus Actions

Participants exchanged views and experience on how ICI projects contribute to national strategies to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD-plus) and how such activities enhance co-benefits and integrate safeguards.

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