Interoperability and Data Exchange for the World’s Oceans
Interoperability and data format exchange capabilities are important to further the sharing of scientific results and improving collaboration about the world’s oceans. The World Ocean Council has embarked on the challenge of bringing together the many diverse businesses involved in sea stewardship. Read More
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Marine Surveying and Environmental Planning
Marine surveys are conducted to acquire underwater geophysical information. In most cases, marine surveyors will acquire 3D data using sounding equipment. Read More
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Large-Format Scanning Improves Workflows
Large-format scanners have been a part of mapping workflows since the early days of paper to digital conversions. While the basic technology that these scanners employ hasn’t changed dramatically, these tools continue to be fine-tuned for speed and accuracy, as well as for improved workflows and greater efficiency. Read More
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Radar Imaging Provides Advantages in Cloudy Asia
Radar imaging, which bounces electromagnetic imagery from a target and measures the returning energy, has key advantages for data collection because of its ability to identify activity and produce imagery that would not be visible otherwise. Read More
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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 successful bidder to cover China for the MLR. Read More |
Mipela GeoSolutions Opens An Office in Melbourne
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 serve the company’s existing and new clients in South East Australia in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Read More
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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 Institute of Surveying and Mapping, GIS mapping, Read More
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Nokia Develping 3-D Mapping for Use in Buildings
According to an article on Into Mobile, even as Google tries to introduce accurate mapping guiding systems, Nokia has developed a hyper-accurate mapping technology that might be made commercial some time in the near future. Read More |
Singapore Satellite Positioning Reference Network
The Singapore Satellite Positioning Reference Network, SiReNT is a nation-wide reference network developed to support real-time high precision land surveying and other positioning applications. An initiative by Singapore Land Authority (SLA), Read More |
State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture
It is an ‘advocacy’ report, to be published every three to five years, and targeted at senior level decision makers in agriculture as well as in other sectors. SOLAW is aimed at sensitizing its target audience on the status of land resources at global and regional levels. Read More |
University of Sharjah in UAE Select SuperGIS Desktop 3
Founded in 1997, The University of Sharjah is a semi-governmental higher educational institute in the Emirate of Sharjah, UAE. The University is famous for the education in Social Science, Business Administration, Engineering, and Medicine not only in UAE but also in the Gulf Region. Read More |
IIC Announces the Award of a Contract from Land Information New Zealand
The production work will continue until mid-2012 with an option to renew for additional charts. LINZ is the latest in a series of hydrographic offices that have contracted IIC for a variety of chart production services within the CARIS HPD environment. Read More |
Asian Cities Must Adopt Sustainable Transport Systems
Cities in Asia should transform their transport systems to provide growing urban populations with greater mobility while ensuring a healthy and attractive urban environment. This is stated in a new book published jointly by the Asian Development Bank and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). Read More |
FIG Working Week 2012
It’s according to these values that we chose the subject of our Italian Working Week: “Knowing to manage the territory, protect the environment, evaluate the cultural heritage”. The CNGGL delegation at the FIG Working Week in Marrakech was particular numerous, and most of its members are young people. They are all active in different FIG Commissions and truly embody the idea of “Young Surveyor”. Read More
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