Friday, November 9th, 2018
China and France launched a new joint Earth observation satellite on 29 October which aims to assist with a range of tasks including global marine monitoring, disaster management, and risk reduction as well as tracking the effects...
Friday, November 9th, 2018
The African Union Commission is Organizing the 1st forum of the GMES and Africa Programme, under the theme “Unlocking the Potential for Earth Observation as a key drivier of Africa’s sustainable development”. It will be held from...
Friday, November 9th, 2018
The EU-funded AURORA project will develop technologies to turn data from the Sentinel-4 and Sentinel-5 missions – due to be launched as part of the European Space Agency’s Copernicus program – into practical, actionable information that will...
Monday, November 5th, 2018
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has completed mapping Semarang, the capital and largest city of Central Java. A city of 373.8 square kilometres and a home to over 1,5 million people, Semarang is the fifth largest city in Indonesia....
Monday, November 5th, 2018
JERUSALEM - Israel's Elbit Systems will operate its flagship UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System) in the European Union (EU) countries, in a 68-million-dollar deal, the security company reported Thursday. Read More at Xinhua
Friday, November 2nd, 2018
Japan has launched a new satellite to observe greenhouse gases. Ibuki-2, also known as GOSAT-2, will survey carbon dioxide and other global warming gases with greater precision than its predecessor. Read More at NHK
Friday, November 2nd, 2018
Just as the UAE rejoiced when the first 100-per cent UAE-made KhalifaSat was launched into orbit from Japan on Monday morning, the Philippines also did when its Diwata-2B microsatellite lifted off to space on board the same spacecraft. ...
Friday, November 2nd, 2018
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) and Furuno Electric have developed a receiver for GPS and other global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) to improve time-synchronization accuracy in areas with severe reception conditions such as among buildings and...
Friday, November 2nd, 2018
Geographic information systems (GIS) provider Esri Ireland is making €500 million worth of digital mapping software available to every primary and secondary school in the country. Read More at Tech Central
Friday, November 2nd, 2018
The acting commissioner in charge of surveys and mapping in the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Mr Wilson Ogaro, has said the ongoing survey of Uganda-Tanzania border in Isingiro District area is intended to make...
