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Monday, February 14th, 2011

KVH Industries Reports Fourth Quarter Growth

Driving this growth in the commercial market was the demand for our inertial navigation systems for use in precision mapping and aerial surveying, two applications that are increasingly vital to support the need for new 3-dimensional maps...

Monday, February 14th, 2011

u-blox and Rohde & Schwarz – Galileo and GLONASS Development

u-blox and Rohde & Schwarz (R&S), a worldwide leading supplier of test and measurement equipment, have successfully concluded a simulation of the soon-to-be-deployed European Galileo satellite positioning system. The test, carried out with the R&S SMBV100A vector...

Monday, February 14th, 2011

Opinion – Private-sector Efforts to Nurture Satellite Business Have Their Limits

Since the 2008 enactment of the basic space law, we have been receiving more support from the government for our efforts to sell space satellites to overseas clients. The world satellite market is dominated by two leading powers--the...

Monday, February 14th, 2011

ADM Completes Delivery of Key Spatial Data Projects in 2010

The Municipality of Abu Dhabi City has made prominent achievements in the field of data services during 2010 that included setting up a spatial data information base and delivering a host of significant projects under a comprehensive...

Friday, February 11th, 2011

FIG Working Week 2011

On behalf of the Ordre National des Ingénieurs Géomètres topographes (ONIGT), the Moroccan order of surveyors, I would like to welcome you to Marrakech, Morocco. The FIG Working Week will...

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Physics-based Space Weather Model

The model will provide forecasters with a one-to-four day advance warning of high speed streams of solar plasma and Earth-directed coronal mass ejections (CMEs). These streams from the Sun may severely disrupt or damage space- and ground-based communications...

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

PT MRT Jakarta – To Create 48,000 Jobs

PT Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Jakarta says it will create jobs for around 48,000 people in the construction of the new transportation network. “This figure is based on the results of research we conducted earlier,” PT MRT Jakarta...

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Turkish Forestry Minister Says Turkey Would Host 10th UN Forestry Forum

Turkish Environment and Forestry Minister Veysel Eroglu said that Turkey would host the 10th United Nations Forestry Forum which is set to be held in 2013. Read More

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Korea’s Cartographic Legacy

About two months ago, renowned Korean scholar Choi Suh-myun received an unexpected package from Atsushi Hirata, director of the Ryukoku University Library in Japan. Choi was taken aback by its content: a masterful digitally enhanced recreation of a...

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Brunei – Geospatial Technology Seminar

The Geospatial Technology Update Seminar took place this morning. It was co-organised by the Geographical Information System, GIS Development, Survey Department, Brunei Institution of Geomatics, the Brunei Surveyors, Engineers and Architects Association, PUJA as well as the...