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China’s space program provides larger platform for broader international cooperation
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India To Launch $1.5 Billion Joint Earth Mission With NASA In July
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012

GIS Research Center Taiwan – 1st Cloud-based Municipal Works Map Platform

FCU’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Research Center has successfully applied Google Earth Enterprise cloud technology to the completion of Taiwan’s first municipal works cloud-based map platform. This project was commissioned by the Taichung City Government. With the...

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

SKM Appoints New Leader of Mining Business

Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) has appointed a new general manager to head the company’s mining and metals business, following the appointment of the former general manager, Santo Rizzuto, to the role of CEO.

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Marine Ecosystems in the Mertz Glacier Region, Antarctica

In his account of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14, Sir Douglas Mawson (1915) described his encounter with large icebergs, resembling ice walls, during the voyage south to Adélie Land in January 1912: 'a south‒south‒east was blowing...

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Satellite Navigation Annual Output to Reach $35b in 2015

The annual output value of China's satellite navigation industry is estimated to reachmore than 225 billion yuan (35.64 billion U.S. dollars) in 2015, according to a latest researchreport on the country's geographic information sector. Compiled by a think-tank under the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, the report predicted the industry would become the country's third new ITeconomic growth point, after mobile communication and Internet. Read More

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Rohde & Schwarz Adds GLONASS and P Code for GPS to the GNSS Simulator

 The options for GLONASS (R&S®SMBV-K94) and GPS P code (R&S®SMBV-K93) have been launched for GNSS chipset and module manufacturers as well as for mobile radio, car radio and automotive and avionics equipment manufacturers. Rohde & Schwarz has launched...

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Russian Space Freighter to be Buried in Pacific

The Progress M-13M cargo spacecraft will be sunk in a remote area in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday after deploying a micro-satellite, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control said. The space freighter undocked from the Pirs docking...

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

UNOSAT South East Asia Capacity Development Initiative – Vietnam

The first of a number of national capacity development initiatives to be implemented in South East Asia by UNOSAT took place in Vietnam in December 2011. The initiative is part of the regional cooperation arrangements supported by...

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

APRSAF Questionnaire to Close This Week

We would like to express our gratitude to all colleagues who have completed this questionnaire and also would like to request those who have not yet answered to take a few minutes to provide us with your evaluation and...

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

2nd Int’l School On “Least Squares Approach to Modeling the Geoid”

After the successful experiences in the determinations and evaluations of precise local geoid models in different countries as well as the very well met First International Geoid School at Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, in September 2010, we...

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

Four Surveyors of Caesar: Mapping the World!

The Article of the Month in January 2012 is written by John F. BROCK, Australia: Four Surveyors of Caesar: Mapping the World!. In this article you will hear about the masterpiece of cartography which highlights most of...