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Australian Space Agency funds development of aerospace-grade GNSS receiver
The Australian Space Agency has funded the development of...
Continuity risks for Australian EO data access
A new report details the widespread use of Earth...
China launches new remote sensing satellite
JIUQUAN, April 15 (Xinhua) -- China on Monday launched...
7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Taiwan
A major, 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the eastern coast of...
Tata Deploys Its Geospatial Satellite In Space on Space X’s Falcon 9 Rocket
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Tata Company launched India's first private commercial satellite...
Taiwan’s Formosat-8 Satellite Set for Launch by 2025
The Taiwan Space Agency has announced progress on the...
Iranian Scientists to Build Satellite Constellation for 2 Simultaneous Missions
The scientists at the knowledge-based company had previously succeeded...
China provides geospatial intel and other military support to Russia, US says
The US has warned its European allies that China...
Japanese lunar lander company ispace raises $53.5 million in stock sale
WASHINGTON — Japanese lunar lander developer has raised $53.5...
Esri and Prince Sultan University Advance GIS Education Through Strategic Partnership
Memorandum of Understanding with Institution Enhances GIS Curriculum and...

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Thursday, December 8th, 2011

AVEVA and FARO Sign Interoperability Agreement

FARO Technologies, Inc. and AVEVA, a leader in engineering design and information management solutions for the plant, power and marine industries,  announced today that they have signed an Interoperability Agreement.

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

The OGC seeks comment on Gazetteer Best Practices

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC?) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Gazetteer Best Practices Document. There is growing interest in the development of a common feature-based model for geographic names databases, often referred to as gazetteers.  This candidate OGC best...

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

RapidEye:Third Coverage of China Contracted by the MLR

RapidEye announced today that it has signed a contract with China’s Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) to cover almost five million square kilometers of China over the next few months. This is the third consecutive year that RapidEye was a...

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture

The State of Land and Water Resources (SOLAW) is FAO's first flagship publication on the global status of land and water resources. It is an 'advocacy' report, to be published every three to five years, and targeted...

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

Mipela GeoSolutions Opens An Office in Melbourne

Mipela GeoSolutions is opening a new office in Melbourne on Monday 9th January 2012. This is in line with one of the company’s “Twenty14 Strategic Plan” key objectives of expanding geographical presence. The Melbourne office has been opened to...

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

FOIF Exhibits Surveying Technologies In Fuzhou

The first national mapping of geographic information technology and equipment exhibition in Fuzhou, Fujian Strait International Convention and Exhibition Center, attracted a field of surveying and mapping technology including nearly 200 enterprises. The exhibition organized by the China...

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

GLONASS Becomes Widely Used by Mobile Device Producers

The Russian head of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media Igor Schegolev announced that a significant number of mobile device producers have started using GLONASS-enabled navigational chips, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes. Quote "Two navigational systems are better...

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Nokia Develping 3-D Mapping for Use in Buildings

Nokia has demonstrated a new indoor 3D mapping system that might change the way people navigate in inside a building, a mall or airport. According to an article on Into Mobile, even as Google tries to introduce...

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Singapore Satellite Positioning Reference Network

The Singapore Satellite Positioning Reference Network, SiReNT is a nation-wide reference network developed to support real-time high precision land surveying and other positioning applications. An initiative by Singapore Land Authority (SLA), SiReNT provides Differential GPS (DGPS) services...

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Cook Islands Surveying Water Quality

Marine researchers in the Cook Islands are hoping a new survey can determine a link between poor water quality at beaches and sickness experienced by swimmers. The Ministry of Marine Resources is conducting the three week survey in...