Friday, May 20th, 2011
The Bukit Bunuh archaeological site in Perak, which has thrown up evidence of the oldest “Old Stone Age” human culture to exist outside Africa, has been conferred a special geological status in an effort to help conserve...
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that it is accepting entries for the 2011 Be Inspired Awards competition. Be Inspired brings together infrastructure professionals from around...
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
The project consists of four components – registration of real estate, management and registration of state property, basic cartography and land registry, trainings and formation of state policy. The project is worth $38.57 million, $30 million of...
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Based on over 900 papers, the programme of the 25th International Cartographic Conference is covering all the facets of the cartography and geomatics and highlighting its most innovative and pratical aspects as well as the most theoretical.
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
The Jakarta government is preparing an earthquake microzonation map. The map, drafted together with the National Earthquake Map Revision (RPGN) team, is expected to serve as a guideline for earthquake detection and mitigation. Read More
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Maja Barnett, GIS Co-ordinator at Pacific Hydro, estimates that over 95% of documents across the organisation have some sort of geospatial reference and has cited this as the reason for developing a system to spatially enable documents...
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
It is with sad heart that I must pass along the news of the recent passing of our colleague, Geoff Howard, Chief Topographer at LINZ. As many of you know Geoff was an institution within the New Zealand...
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
JAXA had been trying to communicate with the Advanced Land Observing Satellite “DAICHI” (ALOS) for about three weeks after its power generation anomaly on April 22, but we decided to complete its operations by sending a command...
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) will collaborate to undertake joint research in satellite and guided navigation, remote sensing and signal processing, and unmanned aerial vehicles. Impressed by NTU's strengths in aeronautical...
