Monday, December 5th, 2016
Baidu Maps, China’s popular mobile map service is all set to become world’s best mapping app with its expansion. Today, Baidu sketched out its plans for international expansion with the launch of its mapping service to 106...
Monday, December 5th, 2016
CHENNAI: Capping a year of successful launches, Indian Space Research Organisation is all set to launch PSLV-C36 carrying remote sensing satellite RESOURCESAT-2A from the spaceport of Sriharikota on December 7, the space agency said today. The 44.4 metre...
Friday, December 2nd, 2016
The Indian Space Research Organisaion (ISRO) will be off to a rollicking start in the new year with a ‘world-record’ launch of 83 satellites in one mission on board PSLV C-37. The launch is being planned in...
Monday, November 28th, 2016
KARACHI: China will construct and launch two remote sensing satellites one each for Venezuela and Pakistan in the coming two years, an industry insider said. Read More at Business Recorder
Friday, November 25th, 2016
ISTRAC, which shot into limelight as the nerve centre of the country's Mars and lunar orbiter missions, has turned 40. The command and tracking centre for Earth observation or remote sensing spacecraft started its journey in September...
Friday, November 25th, 2016
NASA has chosen Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX to launch a satellite that will map the earth's surface water and take high-resolution measurements of the ocean. Read More at Biz Journals
Friday, November 25th, 2016
Barbara Harrison from Canberra-based Digital Concepts launched the first of a series of comprehensive new manuals on Earth Observation in Australia during the recent CRCSI Conference in Sydney. Read More at Spatial Source
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016
Barely a month, after 250 students launched a nano-satellite PISAT, under the mentorship of PES University staff, another group of students have started work on developing another satellite at the university, the PISAT-2. Read More at The...
Monday, November 21st, 2016
South Korea has refused to use local mapping data offered by Google and held security reasons responsible for such decision. The refusal came on Friday following the Alphabet Inc.'s unit's request to the nation to utilise its...
Monday, November 21st, 2016
The Geographical Information System (GIS) laboratory of WWF-Pakistan celebrated GIS Day here on Friday to bring forth the importance and the need for innovative spatial solutions that have become increasingly important for an efficient approach in managing...
