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The Prime Minister of Nepal called for an alliance of mountain countries at a meeting of ministers during COP 15 in Copenhagen on 16 December. The minister made his call during a side event organised by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development and the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research. More >> |
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China launched a new remote sensing satellite on 9 December. Remote-Sensing Satellite Number 7 (yaogan weixing qihao) appears to be similar to YW-2 and YW-4, which are thought to have been imaging satellites. More >> |
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Adaptation and mitigation of rural lands are complementary, not mutually exclusive, approaches to tackling climate change, says a new report from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development. More >> |
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Russian Space Command has taken control of the three new Glonass satellites that were launched on 14 December. All satellites are in their correct orbits and operating properly, according to mission control in Krasnoznamensk, near Moscow. This launch brings the total number of Glonass satellites on orbit to 22. More >> |
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The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, the primary agency for urban governance in Mumbai, has selected ESRI ArcGIS Server technology as its citywide GIS. More >> |
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Pitney Bowes Business Insight, the company that owns the MapInfo brand, has joined the Business Software Alliance in India. The move positions PBBI to be close to the growth of GIS in India expected over the next decade. More >> |
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DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 imagery will be made available to users as of 4 January. The satellite was launched on 8 October. DigitalGlobe produced its first set of images within eleven days of launch. However, it has taken until now to fully commission the sensor. More >> |
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The Taiwan Power Company and the Atomic Energy Council will use SuperGeo technology to integrate data for emergency management planning to help in the event of an accident at its nuclear power plants. The system will use SuperGIS Desktop as the fundamental platform for updating and displaying data. SuperGeo |
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Leica Geosystems has won an order to fit out more than 370 vehicles for Chilean copper producer, Codelco. The Leica Jigsaw360 Mine Management Solution was chosen by Codelco Norte Division and will span a total of three open pits: Chuquicamata, Radomiro Tomic and Mina Sur. The fit out includes the Jigsaw360 Mine Management Solution. Leica |
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The next symposium of ISPRS Technical Commission VIII will be held 9-12 August in Kyoto. Online registration will be available from mid-January 2010 according to President Haruhisa Shimoda. Online submission of abstracts has already started. Potential participants can submit abstracts without paying the registration fee. However, you cannot submit full papers until the fee has been paid. Full paper submission will start on 1 April. ISPRS8 Home |
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The 16th Session of the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum will be entitled Space Applications: Contributions towards Human Safety and Security. It will be held 26-29 January 2010 in Bangkok. Conference accommodation has been organised, but special rates are only available by filling in the special reservation form before 24 December. Registration |
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Major General Rajesh Pant, VSM, an additional director general of information systems in the Indian Army, will headline the next meeting of users of ERDAS software in India. The conference will be held 18 January at the Epicentre Gurgoan, just before the Map India forum. ERDAS User Forum |
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Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft company, will roll out release 2.0 of its UltraMap photogrammetric software on 25 January. It is a distributed system for managing and processing UltraCam data. It is implemented in five modules: Framework; Raw Data Centre; Radiometry; Viewer and Aerial Triangulation. Vexcel |
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ERDAS has released of LPS 2010. In this new release, LPS Core now includes ERDAS MosaicPro (as well as Imagine Advantage). In addition, this release also provides improved sensor support -- for WorldView-2, GeoEye and RapidEye satellites -- and and increased performance. ERDAS |
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