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
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
Airports are changing around the globe. New technologies and economic pressures are causing them to evaluate their operations and to become more responsive and efficient. Geographic...
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...
