ASM Newsletter - January - 6

ASM Newsletter - January - 6 - 2012

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DES Mapping Solutions Offers Spatial Data Appliance

Singapore-based and government-backed DES Mapping Solutions offers a data appliance to deliver satellite imagery, digital terrain models, and other base data in a new way. The data appliance makes the data available for applications for an annual subscription fee, but doesn't allow the client to take out the data. The new data appliance fits somewhere between a network appliance and cloud-based services.
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Indonesia Booming - Infrastructure Needed

Indonesia is expanding rapidly as the economy flourishes. Recently the country's credit rating was upgraded to investment grade as the economy rolls forward on about 6.5% growth per year. But the existing infrastructure is in need of repair and or maintenance, it simply cannot accomodate the growth. This poses unique challenges for the country.
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Precision Agriculture:'The Right time, the Right Amount and the Right Place'

Productive agricultural land is no longer readily available, and a growing global population increasingly depends upon technological innovation to meet consumer needs. To capitalise upon these benefits, the motto ''The Right time, the Right Amount and the Right Place' has never been more important when it comes to food production.
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GeoEye Wins Multi-year, Multi-million Dollar Russian Contract

GeoEye, Inc. announced that it is working with its Russian partner, ScanEx Research and Development Center, to provide millions of square kilometers of high-resolution satellite imagery to the Russian Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr).
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Indian Science Must Serve Inclusive Development

Addressing the 99th Indian Science Congress, the country’s largest annual gathering of scientists, this week (3 January), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the occasion demanded a relook at the role of science in a country "grappling with the challenges of poverty and development."
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DENR’s Land Management Project Featured at UN Expo

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ (DENR) Philippines’ Land Administration and Management Project Phase 2 (LAMP2) was featured during the 2011 Global South-South Development (GSSD) Expo held Dec. 5 at its headquarters in Rome, Italy.
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Philippines to Invest in State-of-the-Art Disaster Monitoring Systems

President Benigno Aquino III has ordered the release of P1.6 billion to the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) to enable it to tap “state-of-the-art technology” and improve the accuracy of weather and disaster information-gathering and reporting in the country.
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Russia Appoints GLONASS Responsibilities

Vladislav Surkov, who has recently entered Russia’s government as deputy prime minister, will be responsible for the modernization of education, science and healthcare, as well as for the development of the GLONASS global navigation system. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin specified the new duties of the former first deputy head of the presidential administration during a meeting
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Urbanising Malaysia Calls for Adoption of Smart-Growth Principles

Strong emphasis given by the Government in strengthening the economic attractiveness of Greater Kuala Lumpur, improving the overall public transportation system, improving linkages in major growth centers and other initiatives identified under the various National Key Economic Areas (NKEAs) will have great implications on future development of cities.
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Comparing OpenStreetMap with TomTom

The question that remains is this: How does the street network perform in a relative comparison with a commercial dataset? By means of a variety of studies, the authors show that the difference between the OSM street network for car navigation in Germany and a comparable proprietary dataset was only 9% in June 2011.
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Philippines to Host a Global Conference on Coastal and Marine Ecosystems

The Global Conference on Land-Ocean Connection and the Third Intergovernmental Review on the Implementation of the Global Program of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA) will be held from January 23 to 27 at the EDSA Shangri-La hotel in Mandaluyong City.
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New Products & Services
January 6, 2012

Raven Expands Precision Farming Products Offering Into China

Raven Industries is excited to announce the signing of a new partner in China, BDStar Navigation Co., Ltd. BDStar Navigation will be the exclusive distributor in China for Raven precision ag products.

Mapping: Vineyard Management to Meet Grape Quality Specifications

Vineyards vary substantially in the quantity and quality of grapes they produce. Yield and various measures of quality are known to vary widely within blocks and along rows. Two consequences of this are the uncertainty in the prediction of yield, and delivery of grapes of inconsistent quality to the winery.

PhotoGIS - Collection, Analysis and Dissemination of Geospatial Imagery

“By offering a simple to use, yet powerful software solution along with our GPS-enabled cameras and modules, we are able to deliver a complete end-to-end photo-capture, mapping and reporting solution to our customers that greatly improves workflow efficiencies,” explained Todd Lushinsky.

New Version of NovAtel Connect Now Available

NovAtel Connect lets you communicate and configure your receiver via serial port, USB or Ethernet connection using a PC running either the Windows XP or Windows 7 operating system.

SuperGIS Server Applied to Telecom Management Platform

To establish a service platform within a single intranet and effectively manage and integrate various types of data, Asia Pacific Telecom adopts SuperGIS Server as the core of the GIS platform.

Dielmo 3D Launches LiDAR-Online

. The cloud-based network provides a collaborative online service for hosting, sharing and discovering LiDAR data promoting public data access to the benefit of the LiDAR community and society as a whole.

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