Saturday, January 15th, 2011
The Governments of the United States of America and Japan convened a plenary meeting in Tokyo, Japan on January 13, to review and discuss cooperation in the civil use of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and GPS...
Friday, January 14th, 2011
China Information Technology, Inc. a total solutions provider of geographic information systems (GIS), digital public security technology (DPST) and digital hospital information systems (DHIS) in China, today announced that its newly signed contracts in the fourth quarter of 2010...
Friday, January 14th, 2011
There is an abundance of information and mapping resources springing up online to deal with the ongoing Queensland. This pag will maintain an overview of online resources that can assist the affected communities in QLD in dealing...
Friday, January 14th, 2011
Google has been accused of collecting emails and other personal information from unsecured wireless networks while it took photos of neighbourhoods in South Korea for its "Street View" mapping service between October 2009 and May 2010. In...
Friday, January 14th, 2011
The state government has decided to go the high-tech way in implementing the employment guarantee scheme (EGS). Satellite images of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would be used to determine the areas that need to be given...
Friday, January 14th, 2011
The ABC has launched a new crowdsourcing initiative to plot the effects of the Queensland floods - the ABC QLD Floods Crisis Map. Hot off the back of Feral Month - an invasive-creature mapping initiative designed to...
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
This paper describes two applications of remote sensing on a near-real time mapping of flood inundation and crop health in the light of natural disaster and crop monitoring. The mapping of flood inundation was carried out over...
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
A RAGING wall of water charged through Toowoomba, a city in south-east Queensland, on January 10th, sweeping unsuspecting people before it. Two days later, the floodwaters had reached Brisbane, the state’s capital and Australia’s third-largest city (population...
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
Russia will launch an oceanography satellite in March to keep track of a vast amount of data that will help improve weather, climate and ocean forecasts, a Russian scientist said on Wednesday. "It will be a kind...
