Monday, August 1st, 2011
As detailed in the August edition of Landwrap, the spatial parcel improvement (SPI) project captures and adjusts survey data from existing survey plans to improve the accuracy of the cadastre in high priority areas. The two-year project...
Monday, August 1st, 2011
I am writing this on a 'normal' day in Christchurch. This entails being shaken out of bed this morning by a 4.1 double and ensuing blackout. I went to work in my long-term ‘temporary’ office in the...
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
The GIZ-SUTP along with the Transport division of the UNESCAP jointly organised a breakout session at the Fifth Asia Pacific Urban Forum on the 22nd June 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. The title of the breakout session was...
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
Siemens has assisted the management team of TAIPEI 101, the tallest building in Taiwan and the second tallest building in the world, to achieve platinum certification in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Existing Buildings: Operations and...
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
Real-time virtual trips through foreign cities and mountain-top vistas with digital arrows pointing to top restaurants and tourist spots are just part of what lies ahead for Geographic Information Systems (GIS), according to one of Australia’s leading...
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
Property information service company, Hometrack, has signed an agreement with Perth-based nearmap.com to use its photo mapping content for its Valuer product. Hometrack provides electronic valuations and risk analytics solutions to the Australian and UK housing and mortgage...
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
The giant field days are staged over three days in August in Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia. It attracts over 100,000 visitors, the largest visitation of any rural field day in the country. Since it started in 1973,...
Monday, July 25th, 2011
The Academic Staff College of Gauhati University will coordinate a satellite-based training programme on basics of remote sensing, geographic information system and geographic positioning system from August 1 this year. "The experts from the Indian Institute of...
Monday, July 25th, 2011
After the record month of June with more than 270 hours of LIDAR observations, July started with two weeks of snow storms and cloudy sky. As a LIDAR is an optical instrument which can be operated only when...
Saturday, July 23rd, 2011
Beneath the surface of this tropical paradise in the city of Townsville on Australia’s Sunshine Coast lies a still hidden maze of tunnels and underground bunkers, once said to be used by General Douglas MacArthur. Learning the...
