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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

Airtel Launches GPS to Help Track Bangladeshi Fishing Boats

India's Bharti Airtel Limited, which has acquired 70 percent stake in Bangladesh's Warid Telecom, has launched a GPS-based vessel locating service to enable the country's fishermen communities to track their fishing boats. This service is in line with...

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

Launch of New Russian Navigation Satellite Postponed to Next Year

The launch of Russia's new-generation Glonass-K satellite has been postponed until 2011, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. The satellite atop a Soyuz-2.1.b carrier rocket was to blast off from the Plesetsk Space Center on December 28. "Preparations have...

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

World Bank Approves $1.5 bn for India’s Rural Roads

The World Bank on Tuesday approved a USD 1.5 billion Credit and Loan for India's Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) aimed towards improving rural accessibility of roads. The new project will concentrate on the states of Himachal...

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

ESA Unveils Latest Map of World’s Land cover

ESA’s 2009 global land cover map has been released and is now available to the public online from the ‘GlobCover’ website. GlobCover 2009 proves the sharpest possible global land cover map can be created within a year. The...

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

SuperGeo Awarded Geospatial Excellence Award at Geospatial World Forum 2011

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, is honored to announce that it has won Geospatial Excellence Award by means of the application “Taipei City Advanced Traveler Information System (ATIS) Web”, structured...

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

SuperGIS Server 3 Supports to Publish High-performance GIS Websites

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, has released a white paper of SuperGIS Server 3 website performance testing report. In this white paper, the method and the procedure of the test...

Monday, December 20th, 2010

Optech Acquires Second Photogrammetric Camera Company

Optech Incorporated announced today that it has acquired the operations and assets of Geospatial Systems, Inc. (GSI), a United States camera and imaging company. “Photogrammetric imagery and lidar data collection technologies continue to merge into a single...

Monday, December 20th, 2010

NIWA Releases Review of NZ Temperature Trends

NIWA today released a report reviewing its seven station temperature series, which adds to its analysis of New Zealand’s temperature trends over the past 100 years. The report was independently peer reviewed by Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology to...

Sunday, December 19th, 2010

Malaysia Approves Largest Infrastructure Project

The Malaysian Cabinet has approved the setting up of a mass rapid transit system for the country's capital Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday. Najib said the 36-billion-ringgit (11.5-billion-U.S. dollars) project is the largest...

Saturday, December 18th, 2010

Address of the Incoming President – CheeHai Teo, FIG President 2011-2014

I am deeply humbled and honoured to wear this chain of office as I stand before all of you today. The immensity and weight of this responsibility are not loss on me. It is a responsibility and stewardship that...