Tuesday, December 29th, 2015
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar said satellite-based weather forecasting has helped reduce the deaths occurring every year due to cyclones from a few thousands to single-digit figures. Read More via The Hindu
Monday, December 28th, 2015
In the area of the law, many authorities are just starting to catch on the mobile and internet revolution and write laws accordingly. From texting and driving to cyber bullying, bases are being covered at a relieving...
Monday, December 28th, 2015
PATNA: Drones have completed a minute aerial mapping exercise of Sohna town, in close proximity to the national capital, to create new age tools that will assist the administration for checking on encroachments, collecting property tax and...
Monday, December 28th, 2015
The year 2016 is set to see the national space programme slowly shift gears towards large satellites, a heavy-lift launcher and improved Earth observation capabilities. Read More via The Hindu
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015
Toyota will unveil a new system for generating high-precision maps using data from onboard cameras and GPS devices at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Read More via Autocar
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015
JAMMU, Dec 23: Twenty one day Winter School Training Programme for Capacity Building in Geospatial Technology, organized by the Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, began today at the University of Jammu. Read More via Daily Excelsior
Monday, December 21st, 2015
A 29-year-old businessman married his college sweetheart in a typical big fat wedding at a plush farmhouse close to the IGI airport. But his photographer who took aerial shots of the function with an unmanned aerial vehicle...
Monday, December 21st, 2015
Clouds, tall buildings and the risk of typhoons were among the challenges for a Hong Kong company charged with taking the images behind the first 3D Google Earth map of an Asian city. Read More via South...
Friday, December 18th, 2015
NEW DELHI: It is essential to come up with a legislation for dissemination of images and geospatial data in public domain before according permission to service providers such as Google as "unfettered display of data" could have...
Friday, December 18th, 2015
When it comes to maps, China isn’t messing around. Starting next year, you don’t want to be caught with the “wrong” maps—that is, maps containing content “that endangers the country's sovereignty, safety and interests,” according to a...
