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Friday, January 13th, 2012

Russia Decides to Make Glonass Mandatory for New Cars

The Russian news agency Interfax informed that from 2013 all new Russian-made cars will be equipped with the ERA-GLONASS by default, quoting Yaroslav Domaratskiy, Director of Customer Equipment R&D Centre at NIS-GLONASS. GLONASS is the Russian Global Navigation...

Friday, January 13th, 2012

Vietnam Modernizes Land Administration

The World Bank and the Embassy of New Zealand are collaborating with Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to develop a complete and modern land management system, in an effort to increase access to land information...

Friday, January 13th, 2012

Central Visayas Cadastral Survey Set for Philippines

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Region 7 is set to conduct a cadastral survey covering a total of 73,661 hectares at a cost estimated to reach P163.09 million. The survey will be conducted in selected...

Friday, January 13th, 2012

Australian Kick Off Land Access Negotiations On The Right Foot

The Queensland Government has manually developed the Digital Cadastral Data Base for investigating land-related information for the state. Definium Surveyors’ Peter Hickey discusses the importance of improving the accuracy of the digital boundaries for this land access...

Friday, January 13th, 2012

Azerbaijan Announces Composition of Commission Negotiating Gabala Radar with Russia

According to the order issued by President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, the composition of the national group negotiating the status and lease principles, as well as use of the Gabala radar station (Daryal analytical-information center).

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

Outlay Likely for Spatial Data Infrastructure

For strengthening the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), an outlay of Rs 750 crore has been planned during the 12th Plan. Speaking at the 11th annual meet of National Spatial Data Infrastructure conference, Mr Swarna Subba Rao, Surveyor...

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

Indian Project – Topographic Database on 1:10,000 Scale

The Survey of India (SOI) has embarked upon a project for creating a national topographic database on a 1:10,000 scale for the entire country and aims to complete it during the 12th plan period, Surveyor General of...

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Forestland Boundary Assessment and Delineation Completed in Region IX

It’s finished!!! After a decade of intense and dedicated work, the Forestland Boundary Assessment and Delineation for the entire Region IX, Zamboanga Peninsula has been accomplished by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) particularly by...

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Speed Up Infrastructure Development to Boost Growth: Ahluwalia

Deputy Chairperson of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia has stressed the need for accelerating infrastructure development in the country to boost growth.  Speaking on the sidelines of an event here, Ahluwalia said that the large projects which are...

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Preparations Under Way for IGARSS 2012

Jointly organised by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, the DLR German Aerospace Center and ESA, the 2012 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) is scheduled to be held 22–27 July in Munich, Germany. IGARSS...