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Monday, September 19th, 2011

Rail Link with Riyadh Could Further Underpin Salalah Port’s Vision

Rail connectivity between Dhofar and the Riyadh region of Saudi Arabia could potentially position the Port of Salalah as a new maritime gateway for trade with the booming commercial heartland of the Gulf, according to its CEO. Peter...

Monday, September 19th, 2011

IFAC LIDAR in Antarctica

A tropospheric depolarization LIDAR is installed at Concordia Base (Antarctica, DOME C, 75° S 123° E). The instrument is "alive" in the frame of the national (Programma Nazionele Ricerche in Antartide) projects TAVERN (ISAC CNR) and ICE-CAMERA...

Monday, September 19th, 2011

InterCarto-InterGIS 17 – Bali

The International Conference on “InterCarto-InterGIS 17” will address the following themes: Geoinformation mapping, geoinformation virtual environments, geoinformation systems (GIS), GIS-technologies.

Monday, September 19th, 2011

National Spatial Data Infrastructure: The Case of the Republic of Korea

Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) has emerged as a valuable tool for monitoring development outcomes. This report, part of the Spatial Data Infrastructure for Development (SDI4MDGs) project, explores the potential use and long-term sustainability of SDI in achieving...

Saturday, September 17th, 2011

India’s GVK Pays $1.3 B for Stake in Australia’s Hancock

 India's GVK Power & Infrastructure will pay $1.26 billion for a majority stake in three Australian coal mines and a port and rail project owned by Hancock Group to secure long-term coal supplies for the Indian group's...

Saturday, September 17th, 2011

Remote Sensing Satellites Monitor Kerala Backwaters, Bhagirathi Basin

This startling revelation was made by Dr. Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, former chairman of ISRO and current member of planning commission, during a presentation this evening at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). The focus of his 45-minute...

Saturday, September 17th, 2011

GBTU Approves M Tech to Teach Remote Sensing

The Gautam Buddh Technical University's (GBTU) academic council on Friday gave green signal to introduce MTech in remote sensing from the next academic session. The course will be launched in collaboration with the state government's Remote Sensing...

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

China to Begin Mapping Seabed

China will accelerate its pace of mapping the deep seabed, Zhang Jixian, president of the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, told China Daily in an exclusive interview. "In the near future, China's surveying and mapping science will...

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Autodesk to Help Drive Data Interoperability in AEC Industries

Autodesk, Inc. announced that the company's Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) exporter for its Revit products is now accessible as open source code, licensed through a LGPL v. 2.1 licensing agreement. Since 2005, Autodesk Revit products have provided...

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Near-3D Views of Thiruvanan​thapuram City

Google Earth and Google maps have made higher resolution maps available for several parts of Kerala. Near-3D views are available for areas north of Vanchiyoor and Government Ayurveda College for the Thiruvananthapuram city. On the West Coast...