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Earth Observation Aids Coastal Zone Management
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- Published on Thursday, 10 March 2011 00:00
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Coastal zone management is an area of increasing interest, with competing ecological, environmental and social values as well as vulnerability to our changing world. The complexity of managing the coastal zone must take into account a broad range of often conflicting interests. The use of earth observation improves the ability to monitor and forecast for such variables as sea level rise, water quality, ecosystem health, and productivity.
Mapping Shacks and Slums Helps Reduce Poverty
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- Published on Thursday, 03 March 2011 23:26
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The benefits of mapping the informal settlement in slums has a large number of benefits. Detailing the settlement patterns allow for municipalities to provide services, such as water, sewer service and electricity. Mapping of slums provides the first step toward land governance, recognizing investments, allowing for land to be used as collateral to help bring the populations out of poverty. The mapping of the land also provides the means for setting up property taxes to offset new services.
Pending Land Swap Between India and Bangladesh May Move Forward
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- Published on Thursday, 03 March 2011 21:58
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There is talk that a long-awaited land swap between India and Bangladesh may take place when India's prime minister Manmohan Singh visits Bangladesh later this year. The land along its northern border has been in dispute since the country's independence from India in 1971, but the mixed borders of Cooch Behar have been muddled for much longer.
Remote Sensing for Asian Volcano Monitoring
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- Published on Thursday, 03 March 2011 19:53
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Korean Meteorological Association has initiated an effort to monitor volcanic activity on Mt. Baekdu on the North Korea-China border. Using the recently launched Cheollian weather satellite, the mountain will be monitored regularly through the use of satellite imagery.
National Digital Mapping - From The Bottom Up
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- Published on Thursday, 03 March 2011 13:05
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The concept of a national map has been under review in many countries for quite a while. But the value of such a map has only recently become sharpened, clearer and more in focus. Such national maps are more than static representations. Similar to other kinds of digital efforts like building information modeling, 4D mapping and digital cities approaches, they can be vibrant, dynamic, interactive and serve as valuable platforms to support decision making from community to national levels.
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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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