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...
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...
Thursday, December 16th, 2010
The use and application of aerial and satellite imagery plays an important role in planning for and mitigating the impacts of disasters. This includes flooding, earthquake, tsunami, desertification and other extreme events. This technology depends upon adequate...
