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Tuesday, May 31st, 2016

CSIR Mulls National Water Mapping Program

New Delhi: The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) is mulling over a National Water Mapping Programme aimed at finding groundwater hot spots, mapping the structures, and measuring salinity and other characteristics. CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute...

Tuesday, May 31st, 2016

GIS-Based Map Protects Children’s Lives in Chiba

To protect primary school students from traffic accidents, the Chiba prefectural police have distributed commuting route maps among schools, indicating spots where students have been injured or killed in traffic accidents.  Read More at The Japan News

Friday, May 27th, 2016

ISRO Planning to Launch Next Reusable Vehicle Test after Studying Flight Data

ISRO: A senior official from the Indian Space Research Organisation said in a statement that India will experiment its succeeding set of space technologies concerning to the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) very soon after analysing the data...

Wednesday, May 25th, 2016

ISRO’s RLV Test: It’s all About lowering the Cost of Satellite Launches

Almost everything that ISRO has accomplished in the last few years, has already been done before although by only one or two other countries. Monday’s test of a reusable satellite launch vehicle (RLV) is no different. What...

Wednesday, May 25th, 2016

Lapan A3 Satellite to be Launched in June

Bengkulu - The National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (Lapan) will launch the Lapan A3 Satellite in June 2016 for conducting several earth observation missions. Read More at Antara News

Tuesday, May 24th, 2016

Australia Turns to GNSS for Primary Navigation

Almost 180 ground-based navigation aids and associated non-precision approach procedures will be withdrawn from service this week after Australia earlier this year moved to more accurate, mandated satellite navigation technology. Read More at Air Traffic Management

Tuesday, May 24th, 2016

OGC and SIBA Sign Memorandum of Understanding

24 May 2016 —The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and the Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will further the missions of both organizations by collaborating as partners in the development...

Tuesday, May 24th, 2016

Indonesian GPS Provider – CV. Gunapris Elecom Selects SuperPad as GIS Solution

Supergeo announces that its leading GIS software on Windows and Windows Mobile OS – SuperPad was chosen by Indonesian GPS instrument provider CV. Gunapris Elecom as the solution for spatial data collection and processing. Headquartered in greater...

Tuesday, May 24th, 2016

Shih Hsin University Won SuperGIS Youth Award 2016

The team from Shih Hsin University outperformed other competitors and won SuperGIS Youth Award 2016 by applying both desktop and web-based GIS to develop a tourism solution. SuperGIS Youth Award is a countrywide event in Taiwan and...

Monday, May 23rd, 2016

ISRO Has a Great Idea, Promptly Shelves it

A major initiative in the war on climate change taken by Bengaluru-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has led to all major global space agencies rushing to develop satellites that will monitor carbon emissions from each country...