Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a pixel worth to a substation? Electrical substations are everywhere — generation substations, transmission substations, distribution substations, privately owned substations and the list goes on. Not as...
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
The first major opposition to the draft National Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011 will be in the form of a three-day dharna here beginning on Wednesday by the project-affected people. Various peoples' movements under the...
Monday, August 1st, 2011
For the first time in India, Manipur has introduced Geographic Information System (GIS) for mapping schools located in remote areas of the State. With the introduction of GIS, effective monitoring can now be done whether or not funds...
Monday, August 1st, 2011
The GPS technology that allows cell phones and other devices to pinpoint their location to within a few meters has made possible new services ranging from location-aware social networks to self-driving cars. A new location technology accurate...
Monday, August 1st, 2011
The South China Sea dispute centers on the sovereignty over the Nansha Islands, a network of islands that stretches 1,000 km from north to south in the southeastern corner of the sea. China was the first country...
Monday, August 1st, 2011
According to forest and environment minister, Ajay Singh Yadav, the forest department has made an agreement with the Haryana State Remote Sensing Application Centrein Hisar, and the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) in Hydrabad, who will be...
Monday, August 1st, 2011
With each pass over Japan’s ravaged landscape in the hours and days after March’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, DubaiSat-1 collected images of large swaths of toppled towns, scanned the dramatically altered coastline and zeroed in on the...
Monday, August 1st, 2011
3-GIS congratulates business partner GISTEC for receiving the 2011 3-GIS Business Partner of the Year Award. The award recognizes outstanding partner achievements in sales, product development and advancing 3-GIS innovative thin-client web-based solutions into utilities, telecom, and...
