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Thursday, January 27th, 2011

GLONASS to Reach Cm Accuracy – General Designer

GLONASS constellation to be completed in 2011, to be enlarged with new-generation Glonass-K spacecraft, GLONASS General Designer, Russian Space Systems DG Yury Urlichich stated, quoted by Interfax.  Urlichich reminded that 24 spacecraft in 3 orbital planes at...

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

STAR – Satellite Technology For The Asia-Pacific Region

The Satellite Technology for the Asia-Pacific Region (STAR) program is an international initiative to develop small satellites in collaboration with engineers and researchers from the Asia-Pacific region. STAR Program aims to 1) Provide opportunities to build capacity for Space...

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

Singapore – Go-Ahead for Alignment of Northern Segment of North-South Expressway

The Government has given the approval for the alignment of the North-South Expressway (NSE) between Admiralty Road West and Toa Payoh Rise. As announced under the Land Transport Master Plan, the Government will be building NSE, a new...

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

Chinese Surveying and Mapping in 2011 – Main Content of Work

Recently, the Sichuan Bureau of Surveying and Mapping Surveying and Mapping in 2011 published the main points of the province, asked the province to implement effective unit of survey and mapping industry.

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

3D Abu Dhabi Model to Be Set Up

A new project for setting up a 3-dimensional model of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi has been put into motion, announced the Municipality of Abu Dhabi City (ADM) on Monday in a statement. It is considered to...

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Country Sees Its First Wild Tiger Translocation

For the first time in Nepal, a wild tiger fitted with satellite collar was translocated from the Chitwan National Park (CNP) to Bardia National Park (BNP) today. CNP authorities had rescued the injured male tiger from the...

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

Guidelines Running Years Behind Schedule – Flood Planning”

A new set of national engineering guidelines for dealing with storm and floodwaters are bogged down in funding problems, while Victoria's major flood strategy is more than two years behind schedule and still incomplete. Urban flooding is...

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

PHL to Host Asia Pacific GIS User Confab

The Esri Asia Pacific Conference, one of the most highly anticipated geographic information systems (GIS) events in the region, will be hosted by the Philippines on January 26-27, 2011 at the Edsa Shangri-La Hotel in Mandaluyong City....

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

NZGB Sets Deadline for Proposing Names

The next meeting of the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB) has been scheduled for 29 April 2011. The deadline for making proposals to assign, alter, approve or discontinue names is 25 February 2011,...

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

LINZ Appoints Surveying Firms

Following a competitive tender process, Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) has appointed Opus, Beca, and CPG to carry out critical re-surveying work in post-quake Canterbury. The three firms will share the significant task of restoring the region's...