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How to Pay for GIS?
Friday, 05 Mar 2010 10:55 AM
The existence of Software as a Service, Open Source, Crowd Sourcing and Computing in the Cloud will challenge existing business models for IT companies, but it won't alter the fundamental rule: you pay for what you get.
More on How to Pay for GISHave Geospatial Tools Helped in Tsunami Mitigation?
Monday, 01 Mar 2010 10:10 AM
Another earthquake within the Asia-Pacific basin spawned tsunami warnings this past weekend. Hundreds of thousands of people headed to higher land to avoid disaster, the result of constant monitoring of the earth's seismological activity. Have geospatial tools helped to mitigate these impacts?
More on Tsunami and Geospatial ToolsDefining Spaces, Place and Augmented Reailty
Wednesday, 24 Feb 2010 05:34 PM
Augmented reality brings new perspectives and interpretations about the spaces and places that we live in. Once assigned to the distant future, augmented reality is available today. While many applications related to virtual worlds and fictional places, virtual reality applications are finding useful and valuable applications in every day applications.
More on Space and VRDevelopment and Management of an Indian Police GIS
Sunday, 21 Feb 2010 08:37 PM
To review the progress of applications of GIS in police administration and to formulate further strategy for development and management of Police GIS in district Almora, a one day workshop was jointly organized by the Police Administration Almora and the Centre of Excellence for NRDMS in Uttarakhand (COE NRDMS) at the Meeting Hall of the Superintendent of Police Almora January 2010.
More on Police GIS in IndiaCBERS-3 Go Ahead
Wednesday, 17 Feb 2010 10:53 AM
Brazil and China have agreed to launch the fourth China Brazil Environmental Remote Sensing satellite in 2011. The satellite was originally slated for launch in the second half of this year, but a design meeting last week decided on a new schedule.
More on CBERS-3Ethics Charter for 3D Visualization
Monday, 15 Feb 2010 12:28 PM
With the growing use of 3D technologies and further developments in the field of 3D visualization images have become more important as representations of reality. Some have suggested that 3D visualization is replacing the map as the primary cartographic graphic,and that this shift is leading toward ethical issues.
More on 3D CharterAsian Remote Sensing Converging on Disaster Response
Thursday, 11 Feb 2010 07:32 AM
Asia is moving rapidly to achieving an independent capacity in the use of remote sensing for disaster response. Speakers at the sixteenth session of the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF-16; 26-29 January; Bangkok) urged the creation of a space segment to Sentinel Asia, using satellites from south Korea, India and Japan.
More onGeospatial Technology in Asian Agriculture
Monday, 08 Feb 2010 01:24 AM
Rice harvesting in the Mekong Delta is lower than what it could be. Only 28% of the 420,000 acres under cultivation benefit from high technology, suggesting large increases in production could be achieved with more technology input.
More on Geospatial TechnologyMeasuring Mountain Height: From Surveying to Satellites
Monday, 01 Feb 2010 02:07 PM
There are many ways that the height of a mountain can be determined. Altimeters are the easiest approach but theodolites, global positioning systems (GPS) and satellite imagery can also be used.
More on Measuring HeightsGlacial Melting—The View Up Close
Wednesday, 27 Jan 2010 08:53 AM
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Kathmandu has issued a statement on the recent controversy on the rate of glacial melting. In 2007, the UN' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report called AR4. The report repeated a claim made by Professor Syed Hasnain in 1999, published in New Scientist magazine, in the UK, that glaciers in the Himalaya, would melt completely by 2035.
More on Glacial MeltingLIDAR Measurement & Monitoring
Tuesday, 26 Jan 2010 10:27 AM
The year 2010 is termed the 'Year of the Laser' to many people. Since inventor, Theodore Maiman demonstrated the first laser in 1960 at Hughes Research Labs in Malibu, Calif., the study of light or 'photonics' has grown and expanded immensely.
More on LIDAR MeasurementChinese Compass Satellite Furthers Navigation
Tuesday, 19 Jan 2010 09:30 AM
China has launched the third satellite in its Compass global satellite navigation system. It was launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwestern Sichuan province at about 0:12 a.m. Beijing Time on 17 January.
More onViet Nam - Setting Higher Agricultural Targets
Sunday, 17 Jan 2010 12:05 PM
Agricultural production is highly linked to land resources and their location. Recently Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung suggested that Viet Nam needs to set higher targets for agricultural production. He pointed to the need for better models that link economy to production for local conditions.
More onRazaksat Imagery
Thursday, 14 Jan 2010 09:12 AM
Imagery from the Malaysian Razaksat satellite will be available to users during the next few months. Speaking at the International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition in LangKawi, deputy science technology and innovation minister Fadillah Yusof said the configuration process to sharpen the imagery from the satellite was still not completed.
More on RazakSATGoogle to Flee China?
Thursday, 14 Jan 2010 08:58 AM
On 12 January, David Drummond, Google Inc's chief legal officer published a blog announcing his company was considering its position in the Chinese market, after officials there attempted to hack email box belonging to civil rights activists, both inside and outside China.
More on Google in ChinaNAVTEQ - State of Asia Navigation
Thursday, 07 Jan 2010 12:37 PM
Navteq in Singapore has released statistics that provide a perspective on the state of the Asian consumer navigation industry in 2009.
More on NAVTEQ in AsiaChina Plans Hi-res Satellite
Thursday, 07 Jan 2010 11:34 AM
An official with the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping in Xian says China will put a high-definition survey satellite into space in 2011.
More - China Plans Hi-res SatelliteNew Report Analyzes the Growth of the GIS Market in China
Tuesday, 05 Jan 2010 07:22 PM
TechNavio Insights recently completed a report that analyzes the prospects for the Geographic Information System (GIS) market in China from 2008 to 2012. The report summarizes the wide range of applications of GIS technology, and aims to inform government policy so that the market will grow and thrive.
More on China GIS MarketIndonesia - Tsunami Early Warning System Progressing
Monday, 04 Jan 2010 12:05 PM
Five years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, Indonesia’s early warning system remains a work in progress, officials and experts say.
More on Indonesia TsunamiNagasaki and Warship Island The Seaport Town Opened to the World
Tuesday, 29 Dec 2009 02:37 PM
Nagasaki has played an important role as a port of diplomacy and trade. For example, Dejima of Nagasaki was the sole port of external trading for more than 200 years during the Tokugawa Shogunate, who decided to close the country in 1633.
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