Thursday, August 11th, 2016
Weeks after an international court struck down its claims over the disputed South China Sea, a high resolution satellite has been successfully launched by China on Wednesday. Satellite aims to provide seamless view of seas inorder to...
Wednesday, August 10th, 2016
Senior Malaysian government agency leaders at the annual National Geospatial Information Symposium have said that geospatial technology can play a major role in helping to achieve many goals set out in the 11th Malaysia Plan (RMK11) Read...
Monday, August 8th, 2016
Qatari satellite operator Es’hailSat has been busy preparing for its second satellite, Es’hail 2, as well as the completion of a new, fully owned teleport. The company hopes the new infrastructure will not only cement its role...
Monday, August 8th, 2016
Space exploration was once considered the province of two superpowers, with only tertiary participation from other nations. But since the turn of the century, more and more nations are joining in. China and India, for example, have...
Monday, August 8th, 2016
Telangana Irrigation Department today signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian Space Research Organisation for setting up a Telangana Water Resources Information System (TWRIS) on the 'Bhuvan' web portal. Read More at Money Control
Friday, August 5th, 2016
Join us November 29 to December 2 in Taipei, Taiwan at the 15th Global Spatial Data Infrastructure World Conference (GSDI 15, http://gsdi15.org.tw/). Our latest Keynote speaker to be announced is Mr. Ivan DeLoatch, Executive Director of the...
Thursday, August 4th, 2016
Diwata-1, the country’s first microsatellite, has captured images of some portions of Dumingag town in Zamboanga del Sur, a mountainous area in Mindanao, an attached agency of the Department of Science and Technology shared. Read More at...
Thursday, August 4th, 2016
South Korea’s space agency has signed a contract to launch an Earth observation satellite into orbit in 2020 aboard Russia’s Angara rocket, giving the new booster its first commercial customer, International Launch Services announced Monday. Read More...
Thursday, August 4th, 2016
TO SPARE residents harassment at the hands of officials, the Chandigarh Administration is all set to launch a geographic information system (GIS) web service enabling families to distribute their properties online. Read More at Indian Express
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016
Australia has recently announced a 1.8m shift in its mapping coordinates, to compensate for the country’s 7.5cm shift north each year. Inevitably the question is why, and could the same thing happen here? In Australia, the shift...
