Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
Hyderabad: Former chairman of ISRO A S Kiran Kumar has been conferred with a ‘Special Achievement Award’ for being the backbone of ISRO’s path-breaking innovations and outreach in the recent times. Kumar has been instrumental in commercialisation...
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
MapmyIndia has launched a new map engine which has been designed to geo-enable applications and solutions with faster turnaround time. With its new maps, the company plans to take on tech giant, Google's map service. Read More...
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
TOKYO: Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Thursday successfully launched a new Earth observation satellite, equipped with X-band radar which is capable of obtaining high-resolution terrain images. Read More at The Gulf Today
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
Alphabet Inc.’s Google denied media reports that the technology giant was re-launching its mapping platform in China, after eight years of the service being severely restricted. Read More at Ejinsight
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
BEIJING - Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google said on Tuesday it has made “no changes” to its mapping platform in China, denying an earlier media report that claimed it was re-launching the function in China, where many of...
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
Earlier this month, UNSW Sydney set up its first Geospatial Information Centre to focus on 3D digital mapping of buildings and infrastructure. Read More at OpenGov Asia
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
Ordnance Survey International (OSI) is the first national mapping agency to join the 100 Resilient Cities platform of partners (100RC). Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, 100RC is dedicated to helping cities across the globe become more resilient...
Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
The move comes as China looks to expand its military with the aim of having the best army in the world by 2030. The Long March 2D booster was sent into space from China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch...
Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
Google has set up a China-specific version of the Google Maps website and introduced a map app for Chinese iPhones. However, it’s not the same Google Maps as you see in other countries – when China-based users...
Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
The satellite, known as CARBONITE-2 by its builder, Surrey Satellite Terchnology Ltd (SSTL) and as VividX2 by its operator, Earth-I (based, like SSTL, in Guildford) is intended to demonstrate and prove technology to acquire high-definition, full-colour video...
