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Tuesday, October 18th, 2016

Baidu Maps Battles AutoNavi for Top Position in Mapping

Domestic navigation app AutoNavi, backed by Alibaba Group Holding, announced this weekend that it ranks No.1 in China's mobile mapping industry, drawing criticism from its major rival Baidu Inc's Baidu Maps. Read More at Global Times

Tuesday, October 18th, 2016

North Korea Touts Nuclear Weapons on Anti-Imperialist Anniversary

SEOUL (UPI) -- North Korea celebrated the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Down-with-Imperialism Union and stated its nuclear weapons program had reached a "remarkably high" point in its development. Read More at UPI.com

Monday, October 17th, 2016

Small-Scale Agriculture Threatens Rainforest

An extensive study presented in Nature Communications mapped the effects of small farmers on the rainforests of Southeast Asia, and findings are discouraging with regard to environmental impact, biodiversity and the economy. Similar studies focused on large-scale...

Monday, October 17th, 2016

ISRO Has Plans to go Small with Lighter Satellites

Plan is two-pronged and satellites can range from 10 kg ‘micros’ to 300 kg-500 kg ‘minis’ Even as it moves into making heavier communication spacecraft weighing 4,000 kg to 6,000 kg, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)...

Monday, October 17th, 2016

India Takes Giant Leap to Curb Illegal Mining, Launches Mining Surveillance System

Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines, Piyush Goyal launched the Mining Surveillance System (MSS) in New Delhi today. MSS is a satellite-based monitoring system which aims to establish a regime of responsive mineral administration,...

Monday, October 17th, 2016

Land-Use Change in Smallholder-Dominated Mosaic Agricultural Landscapes

An extensive study led by a researcher at Lund University in Sweden has mapped the effects of small farmers on the rain forests of Southeast Asia for the first time. The findings are discouraging, with regard to...

Monday, October 17th, 2016

Teledyne Optech Doubles Scanner Speed with Lynx HS-600 Mobile Surveying Solution

Teledyne Optech is happy to announce the release of the Optech Lynx HS-600 mobile lidar scanner. Available in single- and dual-sensor configurations, the HS-600 is a major step forward for collecting uniform lidar data from high-speed platforms....

Friday, October 14th, 2016

ISRO Has Plans to go Small with Lighter Satellites

Even as it moves into making heavier communication spacecraft weighing 4,000 kg to 6,000 kg, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has also firmed up a strategy to a make increasingly smaller satellites for earth observation and...

Friday, October 14th, 2016

INTERGEO 2016 – Smart Geoinformation Shaping the Future

Hamburg - The world is getting smart. At the heart of these tumultuous changes to our lives, economy and work lies digitalisation. And at the core of this transformation, it’s intelligently networked and applied coordinates that often...

Friday, October 14th, 2016

Election Commission of Malaysia Selects SuperSurv for Efficient Spatial Data Collection

Supergeo is delighted to announce that with the assistance from Supergeo's partner in Malaysia, Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya Malaysia (SPR Malaysia, lit. Election Commission of Malaysia) has recently chosen SuperSurv 3.3 as the mobile GIS software to collect...