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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Dharna Planned Against Draft Land Acquisition Bill

The first major opposition to the draft National Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011 will be in the form of a three-day dharna here beginning on Wednesday by the project-affected people. Various peoples' movements under the...

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Italy Albignasego City Government Selected SuperPad 3 for Field Survey

SuperGeo Technologies has successfully promoted SuperPad 3 to the Technical Division at Albignasego City in Italy. Located around 35 kilometers west from Venice, Albignasego is a municipality in the Province of Padua, Italy. Ufficio Tecnico, Comune di Albignasego, namely the Technical Division...

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Javad Petitions for End to P-Code

Encrypting GPS P-codes is a step backward in providing the best of this excellent work of science and art. As the leader in GPS technology, we consider P-codes encryption as being neither good science nor good politics. Our...

Monday, August 1st, 2011

GIS Introduced for School Mapping in India

For the first time in India, Manipur has introduced Geographic Information System (GIS) for mapping schools located in remote areas of the State. With the introduction of GIS, effective monitoring can now be done whether or not funds...

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Australia – Ultrafine Location Fixes

The GPS technology that allows cell phones and other devices to pinpoint their location to within a few meters has made possible new services ranging from location-aware social networks to self-driving cars. A new location technology accurate...

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Maps – History of the South China Sea

The South China Sea dispute centers on the sovereignty over the Nansha Islands, a network of islands that stretches 1,000 km from north to south in the southeastern corner of the sea. China was the first country...

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Remote Sensing to Assess Indian Trees

According to forest and environment minister, Ajay Singh Yadav, the forest department has made an agreement with the Haryana State Remote Sensing Application Centrein Hisar, and the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) in Hydrabad, who will be...

Monday, August 1st, 2011

UAE’s Reach Widens on Land and From Space

With each pass over Japan’s ravaged landscape in the hours and days after March’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, DubaiSat-1 collected images of large swaths of toppled towns, scanned the dramatically altered coastline and zeroed in on the...

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Launch of PositioNZ-RT Monitoring Service

LINZ publicly broadcasts real-time, one-second Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data. The data is streamed free-of-charge from 39 Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) throughout New Zealand. This includes 34 LINZ PositioNZ stations and 5 stations which are...

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Spatial Parcel Improvement Project Update

As detailed in the August edition of Landwrap, the spatial parcel improvement (SPI) project captures and adjusts survey data from existing survey plans to improve the accuracy of the cadastre in high priority areas. The two-year project...