Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
An ambitious Aryabhatta Geo-Informatics and Space Application Centre (AGISAC), that would enable layering of developmental data with GIS mapping for formulating micro planning, would start functioning by end of the year, cabinet minister Ravinder Ravi disclosed here...
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Ambassador Khan said “As we accomplished this goal of launching PakSat-1R, we will swiftly move on to expand our collaboration with China in related fields of space science and technology”. The launching of the satellite, he said...
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
The calving of icebergs (where a huge chunk of ice breaks off from a glacier or ice shelf) from the Sulzberger Ice Shelf in Antarctica was linked to the tsunami, which originated with the magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the...
Monday, August 8th, 2011
Korea has lodged an informal protest against a U.S. government-funded agency’s suggestion to use Japan’s name for the body of water between the two Asian nations in the world’s most-cited guideline for maps, diplomatic sources said Monday. The...
Monday, August 8th, 2011
Baku will host the international scientific-practical conference "Role of national spatial data infrastructure and a unified cadastre of real estate in modern property management system" on October 6-7, 2011 under the Azerbaijani State Property Committee. The conference is...
Monday, August 8th, 2011
A series of public consultations on the Draft Comprehensive City Land Use Plan (CLUP) targeting the various sectors here has been scheduled to ensure maximum participation of the stakeholders in the finalization of the crucial plan. As this...
Monday, August 8th, 2011
The A-SPEC group was formed to streamline the processes undertaken to display new assets within each member’s GIS and Asset Management Systems.A common specification for the supply of digital data was identified as a major opportunity for the consortia members to...
Friday, August 5th, 2011
Please download the 2nd Announcement and call for Abstracts for the ISPRS Melbourne Congress. Could you please circulate this widely amongst colleagues and members of your organisations The Congress will run from 25th August to 1st September...
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Within 24 hours of the catastrophic 2010 earthquake near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, space agencies and companies around the world tasked satellites with providing free images of the earthquake’s aftermath. Experts quickly analyzed and interpreted images taken from space,...
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
A recently launched website aimed at passing down the tragedy of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima to future generations, using a 3-D digital satellite map, is gaining public attention, following a similar site on the Nagasaki atomic...
