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Towards Landsat 8
Thursday, 16 Aug 2007 11:30 AM
The Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation is to build the Operational Land Imager for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre awarded the contract. The OLI will be the principal sensor on the spacecraft.
More...Himalayan Floods from Glacial Lakes
Monday, 16 Jul 2007 11:30 AM
A new study is advocating the development of an early warning system for glacial lake outburst flooding in the Himalayas.
More...Interview with BVR Mohan Reddy, the chair of Infotech
Monday, 16 Jul 2007 11:30 AM
Mohan Reddy was interviewed by Derek Tickner, 18 June 2007
More...Magellan ProMark3 RTK Alters the Landscape
Monday, 16 Jul 2007 11:30 AM
Magellan has recently introduced a real-time centimetre accurate receiver that offers surveyors high precision in a low-cost GNSS receiver.
More...Low Level Risk of Flooding
Sunday, 15 Jul 2007 03:30 PM
Almost 247 million people live in low elevation coastal zones, according to figures in a paper published in Environment and Urbanisation. It is the first to attempt to quantify the global risk from sea level rise and increased storm activity.
More...Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Saturday, 16 Jun 2007 11:30 AM
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the third of four reports last week. This report says reducing greenhouse gas emissions is possible with current technology, and it is affordable.
More...Settling Indonesia/Australia/Timor Maritime Boundaries
Saturday, 16 Jun 2007 11:30 AM
In recent elections, the Timorese voted Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta as the country’s new president. Among his most urgent tasks: fighting poverty. In particular, he needs to ensure access to the revenues that will flow from the oil-rich seabed of the Timor Sea. To do that, he will need to secure boundaries with his neighbours, Indonesia and Australia.
More...FIG Working Week 2007
Saturday, 16 Jun 2007 11:30 AM
The Fédération Internationale des Géom'tres (FIG) the international federation of surveyors held its annual Working Week 14-18 May in Hong Kong.
More...Digital Seoul Runs on GIS
Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:30 AM
A new urban planning system has been commissioned in Seoul. The entire South Korean capital can now be visualised down to street level. City planners are using the system as part of the development approval process.
More...GIS Viewed as Strategic Economic Development Tool
Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:30 AM
The Asia Pacific region is in the midst of rapid change. This change depends on the information and knowledge. Much of this information is concerned with questions which are fundamentally geographic in orientation.
More...Virtually Offshore
Wednesday, 16 May 2007 01:30 AM
Petrochemical facilities that were built in an era before Computer Aided Design often have little or no documentation about the way things were constructed. But lasers have changed all that.
More...Mapping the Indonesia-Singapore Border
Monday, 16 Apr 2007 11:30 AM
It seems that tension is building between Indonesia and Singapore. The major cause for concern is the issue of the maritime boundaries between the two neighbouring states, following coastal reclamation by Singapore. It has raised questions about the maritime boundary between the two nations.
More...New Zealand Aerial Mapping commences operation of a new Optech ALTM Waveform Digitiser
Monday, 16 Apr 2007 01:30 AM
New Zealand Aerial Mapping has recently commenced operation of a new Optech ALTM airborne laser scanner. The unit has an integrated waveform digitiser which records the complete energy return detected by the ALTM sensor.
More...Errors and Google
Monday, 16 Apr 2007 01:30 AM
One of the most difficult and perplexing problems facing Google at the moment is how to update and correct its maps.
More...Orang Utan Conservation in Indonesia
Monday, 16 Apr 2007 01:30 AM
GPS systems have been used to survey land for a wildlife sanctuary in Borneo.
More...New R&D Centre for Credent
Friday, 16 Mar 2007 11:30 AM
Singapore-based Credent Technology has established a research and development centre. The R&D venture will operate as Credent Advanced Technology Sdn Bhd. It will be located in Malaysia's multimedia super corridor.
More...Un's ICG Meets
Friday, 16 Mar 2007 11:30 AM
The United Nations issued a press release last month about the first meeting of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems. The meeting was held in December in Vienna.
More...GR-3 Triple-Constellation GNSS Receiver
Friday, 16 Mar 2007 11:30 AM
Topcon Positioning Systems recently released its GR-3 GNSS receiver - the first to make use of Topcon's new G3 technology.
More...Google's Mission by Michael Jones
Friday, 16 Feb 2007 11:30 AM
Michael Jones, the chief technology officer of Google Maps, has given some insight into the thinking that is driving the development of the company. He says the company's mission is to geographically enable all the world's information.
More...Indian Arrangements to Change says Kapil Singh
Friday, 16 Feb 2007 11:30 AM
India 's minister of science, Kapil Sibal, has outlined the importance to the industry of new government initiatives. They are likely to have ramifications far beyond the borders of India.
More...Map World Forum
Friday, 16 Feb 2007 11:30 AM
India dominates the world of geographic information. Some 60 per cent of all the world's work occurs in India.
More...New Old Map Discovered
Friday, 16 Feb 2007 11:30 AM
Researchers working in the Sahara Desert claim to have found one of the world's oldest maps. If confirmed, the discovery will rival the 6000 year old mural at Catal Hoyuk in Turkey - the oldest known depiction of geography. The Sahara map is already causing a revolution in Egyptology.
More...The Tsunami - Two Years Later
Tuesday, 16 Jan 2007 11:30 AM
India will have a national tsunami early warning system by September 2007. The country’s Science and Technology Minister, Kapil Sibal, made the announcement at a recent press conference.
More...BeyondKyoto
Tuesday, 16 Jan 2007 11:30 AM
The global convention on climate change -- the Kyoto Protocol -- came into force last year. But there is a growing feeling that Kyoto is too little, too late. The world needs a new arrangement that will reduce increases in greenhouse emissions.
More...Archaeological Survey
Tuesday, 16 Jan 2007 11:30 AM
Researchers are using GPS technology for a survey of the ancient silk road city of Milan, according to an article in China Daily. Milan is in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China.
More...Navigation Growth inAsia
Tuesday, 16 Jan 2007 11:30 AM
There are strong indications that 2007 will be the year that satellite navigation systems really expand into Asia.
More...Measuring the Shape of the Oceans
Thursday, 16 Nov 2006 12:30 AM
Radar altimetry has unlocked the door to understanding of a number of global oceanic properties.
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