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Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

RapidEye:Third Coverage of China Contracted by the MLR

RapidEye announced today that it has signed a contract with China’s Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) to cover almost five million square kilometers of China over the next few months. This is the third consecutive year that RapidEye was a...

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture

The State of Land and Water Resources (SOLAW) is FAO's first flagship publication on the global status of land and water resources. It is an 'advocacy' report, to be published every three to five years, and targeted...

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

Mipela GeoSolutions Opens An Office in Melbourne

Mipela GeoSolutions is opening a new office in Melbourne on Monday 9th January 2012. This is in line with one of the company’s “Twenty14 Strategic Plan” key objectives of expanding geographical presence. The Melbourne office has been opened to...

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

FOIF Exhibits Surveying Technologies In Fuzhou

The first national mapping of geographic information technology and equipment exhibition in Fuzhou, Fujian Strait International Convention and Exhibition Center, attracted a field of surveying and mapping technology including nearly 200 enterprises. The exhibition organized by the China...

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

GLONASS Becomes Widely Used by Mobile Device Producers

The Russian head of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media Igor Schegolev announced that a significant number of mobile device producers have started using GLONASS-enabled navigational chips, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes. Quote "Two navigational systems are better...

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Nokia Develping 3-D Mapping for Use in Buildings

Nokia has demonstrated a new indoor 3D mapping system that might change the way people navigate in inside a building, a mall or airport. According to an article on Into Mobile, even as Google tries to introduce...

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Singapore Satellite Positioning Reference Network

The Singapore Satellite Positioning Reference Network, SiReNT is a nation-wide reference network developed to support real-time high precision land surveying and other positioning applications. An initiative by Singapore Land Authority (SLA), SiReNT provides Differential GPS (DGPS) services...

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Cook Islands Surveying Water Quality

Marine researchers in the Cook Islands are hoping a new survey can determine a link between poor water quality at beaches and sickness experienced by swimmers. The Ministry of Marine Resources is conducting the three week survey in...

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

FIG Working Week 2012

I'm particularly glad to address to You this invitation to the thirty-fifth Working Week that will take place in Rome, from the 6th to the 10th of May in 2012. Italy and the Italian Surveyors want to...

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

RapidEye’s New REDD Satellite Coverage Page

Offering the largest collection capacities and the quickest return time to any place on earth, the RapidEye constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites is extremely well suited to image countries involved in the REDD and REDD+...