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Features
Land Mine Mapping Needed to Address Southeast Asia Issue
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- Published on Friday, 12 April 2013 02:22
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This week marks an interational awareness campaign for the ongoing destruction of land mines and unexploded bombs. Southeas Asia is particularly plagued by these destructive remains from war that often kill or maim chldren or impoverished villagers, despite ongoing efforts to curtail the impact. Of the 10 members of ASEAN, unexplored ordnance remain a major issue for Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and the Philippines.Now there is call for a regional initiative to deal with this issue.
Australia's Groundwater Mapping Focuses on the Future
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- Published on Friday, 05 April 2013 01:16
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The Australian National Water Commission commissioned the mapping fo Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDE) as part of the country's Water for the Future Plan. The aim was to aid policy makers for better water planning and natural resource management with environmental impacts in mind. The project was led by Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) along with CSIRO and Cogha, and was launched in July of 2012.
Singapore's Land Transport GIS Hub Informs Operations and the Public
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- Published on Friday, 05 April 2013 01:00
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Singapore's Land Transport GIS Hub is both an enterprise tool to coordinate engineering design and improve construction safety, as well as a tool to communicate details to commuters and motorists. With its limited land space and increasing population, Singapore faces many challenges to improve transportation efficiency, making the best use of available lands, and being conscious of quality of life.
Malaysia Launches a Mapping Portal for Youth Development
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- Published on Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:51
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The Malaysian Youth Development Research Institute (IPPBM) and partners have launched the Malaysia Youth Mapping Portal to compile details about youth resources in the country. The aim with the portal is to help inform policy makers about the financial allocation and performance of various youth programs.
IBM's Deep Thunder will Help South Korea Map and Model Weather Information
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- Published on Tuesday, 26 March 2013 21:00
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South Korea is working with IBM to deploy the Deep Thunder mapping and modeling sytem in order to upgrade their national weather information system. The goal is better understanding of weather patterns in order to better predict the location and intensity of weather events. The hardware upgrade being installed by the Korean Meteorological Administration (KMA) increases the agency’s data storage capacity by nearly 1000% to 9.3 petabytes, making it Korea’s largest data storage system.
Hardware
Leica GR25 WLAN-enabled GNSS Reference Server Provides Unique Internet Sharing
8 May 2013 | 91The 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…
Advanced Navigation Releases Spatial Dual GNSS/INS Antenna
7 May 2013 | 96Advanced 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…
LP960 Mapping Drone Comes with Touchscreen Tablet and Processing Software
23 Apr 2013 | 170LP960, 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…
Software
Avenza Releases Geographic Imager 4.2 for Adobe Photoshop
21 May 2013 | 40Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and the popular PDF Maps mobile app, is pleased to announce the release of Geographic Imager 4.2 for Adobe Pho…
1Spatial Launches 1Edit, Powerful Spatial Data Editing Solution
15 May 2013 | 841Spatial, 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…
Event Coverage
Takeaways from 3D Malaysia 2013
25 Jan 2013 | 1134The 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…
35th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE) in Beijing
2 Oct 2012 | 1473The 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…
Corporate News
Location Forum Releases Groundbreaking Data Privacy Guidelines
21 May 2013 | 47The Location Forum’s Privacy Council released the public version of their Location Data Privacy: Guidelines, Assessment &a&ecommendations today.&n hese groundbreaking Guidelines represent the first in…
Mobile GIS, SuperSurv 3.1 Helps Improve Drinking Water and Sanitation Services in France
21 May 2013 | 38Supergeo Technologies announced that SuperSurv 3.1, the mobile GIS software for Android devices, has chosen by Regie Dignoise des Eaux to carry out efficient field data collection and surveying for lo…
Supergeo to Release Public Cloud GIS Service- SuperGIS Online for Excel Add-in
21 May 2013 | 36Supergeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced that SuperGIS Online for Excel Add-in will be released to help Taiwanese users integrate statistica…
Ordnance Survey International Signs a Contract to Create a 3D-enabled Spatial Data Model for the Kingdom of Bahrain
20 May 2013 | 46The Kingdom of Bahrain has taken a step closer to developing a new 3D enabled spatial data model of the nation following a new partnership between Ordnance Survey International and the Survey and Land…
IIHS Programme on GIS
20 May 2013 | 44Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) is organising a short course on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) focusing on “Working with Digital Maps-Leveraging the power of GIS” between May 23…
Coming Events
| Thu May 23 China - GeoComputation 2013 |
| Mon Jun 03 USA - HxGN Live 2013 |
| Sat Jul 06 USA - Esri Survey Summit |
| Mon Jul 08 USA - Esri International User Conference |
| Tue Jul 16 Australia - IGNSS 2013 |
| Sun Jul 21 Australia - IGARSS 2013 |
| Mon Aug 05 Australia - 18th Annual Geospatial Solutions Conference |
| Sat Aug 17 New Zealand - Maori GIS Association National Conference |
| Mon Aug 19 Japan - Summer Seminar on GNSS |
| Wed Aug 21 Thailand - 5th International Conference on HealthGIS 2013 |
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Vector1 Media publishes Sensors & Systems (www.sensysmag.com), Informed Infrastructure (www.informedinfrastructure.com) and Asian Surveying & Mapping (ASM). Each of these publications deal with the application of sensing and modeling for different scales of geography. Sensors & Systems explores global change, Informed Infrastructure examines smart city applications and technology, and ASM covers geospatial technology application in Asia-Pacific.
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