Thursday, December 18th, 2008
The Pentagon's National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has given GeoEye, Inc a contract valued at US$12.5 million per month for the next year. Under the agreement, GeoEye will supply satellite imagery products to the NGA as soon as its...
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Odyssey Moon made its public debut on 6 December at the Space Investment Summit in San Jose, California. The company used the summit to announce that it has entered Google’s contest for a privately funded...
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Yi-Hsing Tseng, a professor of geomatics at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan gave people at the 28th ACRS a view inside a complex but highly detailed 3 D model of the campus. The model contains...
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
A new edition of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World has just been published. The first edition for the new century is an advertisement for the power and beauty of GIS. Since John Bartholomew...
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
At festival’s end, tired pilgrims attending the Sunning of the Buddha Festival in the Chinese city of Xining (the capital of Qinghai Province), board the Qinghai-Tibet Railway train and start the 26-hour trip home to...
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Since 1954, the Singapore Land Authority (then know as the Survey Department) has been publishing a comprehensive street directory of the city. Until 1995, it was prepared manually. After that, the production process went digital,...
Friday, January 4th, 2008
It is data policy that determines the health of remote sensing, not skill in designing, building or operating spacecraft. This is the opinion of Bob Ryerson, a former head of the Canadian Centre for Remote...
Friday, December 21st, 2007
The Singapore Land Authority’s SiReNT. GPS reference system is operational, according to Victor Khoo, the manager of survey services at SLA. The uptake by the nation’s cadastral surveyors may be somewhat disappointing, Khoo says, but...
Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Ambitious European plans to bring the Galileo satellite navigation system into operation by 2010 seem unlikely to succeed. Authorities in the EU bureaucracies are now offering 2013 as the earliest likely date. A meeting of...
Monday, September 17th, 2007
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