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Saturday, December 10th, 2011

Maintain KNN’s Standard: Municipal Commissioner

Kanpur Nagar Nigam (KNN) has won an award for creating unique geographical information system (GIS), designed to locate the houses in the city.  Municipal commissioner R Vikram Singh praised the efforts of the staff and emphasized to maintain standards in...

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

World Ocean Council Launches “Smart Ocean/Smart Industries”

Major ocean companies are working to expand and better coordinate the collection of oceanic and atmospheric data from ships and other offshore platforms through Smart Ocean/Smart Industries. This programme has been developed by the World Ocean Council(WOC), an...

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

ESA Selects Astrium to Build Sentinel-5 Precursor Satellite

Furthering Europe’s capacity to monitor atmospheric pollution, ESA has awarded a contract worth €45.5 million to Astrium UK to act as prime contractor for the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite system.

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

AVEVA and FARO Sign Interoperability Agreement

FARO Technologies, Inc. and AVEVA, a leader in engineering design and information management solutions for the plant, power and marine industries,  announced today that they have signed an Interoperability Agreement.

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

The OGC seeks comment on Gazetteer Best Practices

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC?) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Gazetteer Best Practices Document. There is growing interest in the development of a common feature-based model for geographic names databases, often referred to as gazetteers.  This candidate OGC best...

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

RapidEye:Third Coverage of China Contracted by the MLR

RapidEye announced today that it has signed a contract with China’s Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) to cover almost five million square kilometers of China over the next few months. This is the third consecutive year that RapidEye was a...

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture

The State of Land and Water Resources (SOLAW) is FAO's first flagship publication on the global status of land and water resources. It is an 'advocacy' report, to be published every three to five years, and targeted...

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

Mipela GeoSolutions Opens An Office in Melbourne

Mipela GeoSolutions is opening a new office in Melbourne on Monday 9th January 2012. This is in line with one of the company’s “Twenty14 Strategic Plan” key objectives of expanding geographical presence. The Melbourne office has been opened to...

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

FOIF Exhibits Surveying Technologies In Fuzhou

The first national mapping of geographic information technology and equipment exhibition in Fuzhou, Fujian Strait International Convention and Exhibition Center, attracted a field of surveying and mapping technology including nearly 200 enterprises. The exhibition organized by the China...

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

GLONASS Becomes Widely Used by Mobile Device Producers

The Russian head of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media Igor Schegolev announced that a significant number of mobile device producers have started using GLONASS-enabled navigational chips, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes. Quote "Two navigational systems are better...