Friday, May 20th, 2011
Trimble Navigation’s Christchurch, New Zealand office was gutted by an overnight fire early this week. It took 40 firefighters to control the fire, and several were injured when a floor collapsed. The structure had been lightly damaged...
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Many organizations are considering to move from 2D to 3D operations. This trend is the result of several factors including newly developed technologies, improved computer performance, 3D software innovations and changes in cost structures. Several users report...
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
During the past week Cambodia and the United Nations met together to discuss issues related to land degradation and desertification. Cambodia is a signatory to the United Nations Convention to combat Decertification (UNCCD) and the country currently 30 projects...
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Recently India launched the Resourcesat-2 satellite, a satellite designed to provide detailed information about the earth's resources and surface - a 'global workhorse' as R.R. Navalgund, Director, Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad said. Meanwhile, this week has...
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Around the globe today we can find many geospatial resources connected to geographic information systems (GIS) and general map making-cartography provided to junior grade education classes. But that is not the case for surveying, GNSS and other...
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
The South China has been reported to contain nearly 50 billion tons of crude oil and 20 trillion meters of natural gas. The area remains largely unexplored - and untapped. That is due to many political, technological...
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
National Spatial Data Infrastructures (NSDI) continue to expand and grow across Asia. Thailand this week has indicated that the country is aiming to initiate it's own NSDI by 2012. As with other similar projects, the goal for...
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
The Indian Space Resource Organization successfully launched the remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2 and two smaller satellites at 10:12 a.m. on Wednesday. The launch also included Singapore's first remote sensing satellite called X-Sat as well as a mini...
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
Philippine President Benigno Aquino has set asside P1 billion ($23.25 million) to create a 3D map of the entire country. The detailed map is part of an effort to guard and plan against disasters, with 66 provinces...
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
The ability to analyze, model and simulate natural disaster events and their consequences is unique to the geospatial and geomatics sector. No other tools provide data management, analysis and the associated visual output, useful for decision-making purposes...
