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India To Launch $1.5 Billion Joint Earth Mission With NASA In July
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2016

Indiana State, Chinese Academy of Sciences further collaboration

The Center for Urban and Environmental Change at Indiana State University welcomed Linlin Lu, associate professor at Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, as part of its speakers...

Wednesday, May 11th, 2016

Flipkart Building Mapping Platform to Help Mark Customer Addresses More Accurately

BENGALURU: India's largest online retailer Flipkart is building its mapping platform based on the data from MapmyIndia, where it picked up over 34% stake last year. The online retailer is building Flipkart Maps, which will help it...

Tuesday, May 10th, 2016

The Great Leap pward: China’s Pearl River Delta, Then and Now

The region where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea has seen some of the most rapid urban expansion in human history over the past few decades – transforming what was mostly agricultural land in...

Tuesday, May 10th, 2016

North Korea Tests Space Rockets, Ballistic Missiles

In a news report by Daily Mail, the North Korean Space rocket technology called Simorgh was obtained by Iran and it was finally tested for the first time. Read More at Nature World News

Tuesday, May 10th, 2016

Google and Apple Might Soon Need a License for Satellite Mapping in India

Due to MNCs like Google and Apple giving a cold response to India's security concerns, they might soon need a license for satellite mapping in India, says a proposed legislation. As reported last week, a draft of...

Tuesday, May 10th, 2016

Maharashtra: Remote sensing technology to check illegal structures

In a bid to curb the mushrooming illegal structures, the state government has decided to identify and check illegal structures across the state with the help of a remote sensing technique. Read More at DNA India

Tuesday, May 10th, 2016

Keynote Speaker – 6th Digital Earth Summit

The 6th Digital Earth Summit, together with a celebration of the tenth anniversary of ISDE, will be held on 7-8 July 2016 in Beijing, China. With the theme of “Digital Earth in the Era of Big Data”,...

Monday, May 9th, 2016

Asia Minute: Mapping the Law in India

Geography is not always a strong subject for Americans.  The National Assessment of Educational Progress consistently finds US students’ score poorly on geography tests, and other studies find many parents don’t do much better. But if you...

Monday, May 9th, 2016

Bundi to Get Minute Digital Mapping, First in the Country

Bundi in Rajasthan will be the first in the country to have minute digital mapping with comprehensive database of its demographical and geographical information, including small lanes, streets, trees, drains, electric poles and houses, besides monuments with...

Monday, May 9th, 2016

This is How ISRO is Mapping the Heatwave in South India

As the heat wave engulfs more people in its deathly tirade, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has started an interactive ‘heat-wave visualization’ map on its Indian Geo-Platform Bhuvan, monitoring the intensity of the heatwave in the...