Thursday, February 10th, 2011
The need for a mechanism that would integrate the various geospatial organisations and agencies together with their valuable geospatial data around the globe remains high on the agenda. The United Nations has been working on this initiaitive...
Friday, February 4th, 2011
The shift from 2D to 3D involves more than changing perspectives. It includes a cultural change within an organizatio where employees must learn to change their workflows to engage 3D more fully. It also involves...
Friday, January 28th, 2011
The Geographic Information Science, also known as GI Science, is a newly emerging discipline of applied sciences. GI Science is concerned with the collection or capture of spatial data by such methods as satellite remotely sensed images,...
Friday, January 21st, 2011
Changing climate is heightening the need for improved information related to weather. Traditionally, Russia has not many such satellites operating in space and therefore has not had the capability to provide up-to-date weather forecasting. But that picture...
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
Construction and infrastructure is poised to expand across Asia in 2011. This growth will include many different types of infrastructure and engage a broad range of geomatics technologies and geospatial technology supported expansion. Emerging and Developing Asian...
Friday, January 14th, 2011
Singapore has been growing rapidly. The statistics for the country are impressive including an annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 6.9% and a jobless rate of 2.1%, for the last quarter of 2010. The mean population growth...
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Aerial imagery and GNSS technologies are gaining popularity for use by agricultural producers. While precision farming has been a primary reason for introducing these technologies into many operations, other factors also play an important role - namely...
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
The Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA) has recently published a paper entitled 'Setting up a Spatial Industry Statistics Program —A Discussion Paper'. As the Discussion Paper points out, there is currently no means for collecting spatial statistics...
Friday, December 31st, 2010
The Digital Earth Symposium comes to Perth, Australia in 2011. Along with this event comes continued discussion on topics related to living in a digital world. Already we are experiencing many of the...
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Communicating important messages can be triggered through geographic information systems (GIS) activities. Using mobile devices, short message service (SMS) occur as text messages and often originate automatically. Deteriorating weather forecasts, tsunami alerts, flood events and pollution impacts...
