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Thursday, July 28th, 2011

DMCii Appoints Professor Jim Lynch OBE Director of Forestry

Remote sensing solutions provider DMCii has appointed Professor Jim Lynch OBE Director of Forestry to oversee the development of effective tools and partnerships for the implementation of sustainable forestry programmes. Lynch was previously Chief Executive of the UK...

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

LightSquared vs. GPS Raises Big Spectrum Issues

The argument raging over LightSquared's proposed LTE network and possible interference with GPS services is actually two arguments over two sets of frequencies, both of which the startup hopes eventually to use. One of the bands allocated to...

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Ground-based Tech to Fill GPS Black Holes

An Australian company is poised to take advantage of growing frustration at the limitations of satellite-dependent global positioning systems. Professor Chris Rizos, of the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems at the University of New South...

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Boom in Infrastructure Development Triggers Growth in the Asia Pacific

The Asia Pacific air traffic control (ATC) equipment market is experiencing fast-paced growth, driven by booming air traffic and infrastructure expansion programmes. With most countries in the region witnessing burgeoning passenger and cargo traffic, the markets in...

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Web Based Atlas of Laser Scanned Buddhist Stone Inscriptions

An important cultural heritage is located in the Chinese providence of Sichuan: about 1000 years
ago, Buddhist stone inscriptions have been carved into rock – the Stone Sutras. Archiving the current
state of the inscriptions,...

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Mapping Mangrove Biomass

The 2004 Asian Tsunami caused dramatic damage, but there are other threats. Remote sensing technologies are evolving quickly and provide tools for monitoring such tropical forests so the team set out to compare three methods. Image differencing is...

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

India Releases Atlas of Freedom Movement

An atlas, which traces historical events comprising the Freedom Movement of India in geo-spatial depiction, was released at the Geo Summit 2011, held at the Satyabhama University here. Prithvish Nag, Director, National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO),...

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

GIZ at the Fifth Asia Pacific Urban Forum

The GIZ-SUTP along with the Transport division of the UNESCAP jointly organised a breakout session at the Fifth Asia Pacific Urban Forum on the 22nd June 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. The title of the breakout session was...

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Siemens Helps TAIPEI 101 to Become the Tallest ‘green’ Building

Siemens has assisted the management team of TAIPEI 101, the tallest building in Taiwan and the second tallest building in the world, to achieve platinum certification in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Existing Buildings: Operations and...

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

Nearmap.com Signs Agreement with Hometrack

Property information service company, Hometrack, has signed an agreement with Perth-based nearmap.com to use its photo mapping content for its Valuer product. Hometrack provides electronic valuations and risk analytics solutions to the Australian and UK housing and mortgage...