In a keynote presentation to the Map World Forum in Hyderabad last month, India's minister of science, Kapil Sibal, outlined the importance for the industry of new government initiatives. They are likely to have ramifications...
Friday, February 16th, 2007
Michael Jones, the chief technology officer of Google Maps, gave the Map World Forum in Hyderabad some insight into the thinking that is driving the development of the company. He said the company's mission was to...
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
There are strong indications that 2007 will be the year that satellite navigation systems really expand into Asia. It seems that the focus has shifted. Japan was one of the first countries in the world to...
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Researchers are using GPS technology for a survey of the ancient silk road city of Milan, according to an article in China Daily. Milan is in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. The survey is...
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
The global convention on climate change -- the Kyoto Protocol -- came into force last year. But there is a growing feeling that Kyoto is too little, too late. The world needs a new arrangement...
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
India will have a national tsunami early warning system by September 2007. The country's Science and Technology Minister, Kapil Sibal, made the announcement at a recent press conference. It is two years since the 2005...
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
When people think of satellite radar, most probably think of synthetic aperture radar imagery and its use in the creation of digital terrain models. Press a little more, and they will probably tell you that the biggest...
