With the planned launch of an Indian-built radar surveillance satellite (Risat-1) next month, it seems timely to address some of the advantages of radar imaging versus other imagery data types. In Asia in particular, the ability of radar imagery to see through clouds and fog in order to capture imagery of the ground below is a distinct advantage, however there are additional benefits.
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The Digital Earth Summit will convene for the fourth biannual event from Sept. 2-4, 2012 in Wellington, New Zealand. This event is sponsored by both the Wellington City Council and Land Information New Zealand and coordinated by the International Society for Digital Earth. The event follows on a successful event that took place in Perth in 2010.
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The Department of Environment and Natural Resources Region 4B has launched recently its Cadastral Survey Project for the municipalities of Magsaysay and Calintaan in Occidental Mindoro to establish project control points, political boundaries and lot surveys.
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The caution came on the eve of the release of the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry report and follows the Natural Disaster Insurance Review (NDIR) which recommended compulsory inclusion of flood cover in policies for homes in medium and high-risk areas.
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Now, through this project, information of bus routes and stops in Taiwan is investigated and compiled thoroughly to integrate spatial and attribute data which is related to countrywide bus operating routes of the 1,300 roads comprehensively.
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Geospatial information — or, at its simplest, information about location — has revolutionised how we see the world and our place in it. It tells us where on Earth different things are, and how they relate to one another.
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After several years of negotiations, the SPACEBEL consortium was selected in July of 2011 on the basis of their technical proposal and also due to the continuous support of the Belgian Government, both at the Federal and regional levels.
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AAM are holding a Geospatial Web Directions Workshop in Perth. This will be a great opportunity for current users and those interested in Web mapping and Web GIS to see the latest Geocortex technology advancements and tools.
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Ag Leader has acquired Soil-Max, manufacturer of the market-leading Gold Digger tile plow, and the assets of Gradient, Inc., a related company which revolutionized the control of tile plows with the Intellislope GPS-based control system.

Open BIM is an initiative of buildingSMART and several leading software vendors using the open buildingSMART Data Model.

Sescoi is expanding its Asian network of offices and distributors by appointing WCS Solution as Malaysian distributor for its WorkNC CADCAM software, and for WorkXPlore 3D.

ZephIR technology has been chosen by both Masdar Power and Masdar Institute of Science and Technology to provide wind measurements in challenging desert conditions in Abu Dhabi.

It is the first large-format camera to include both patented field-replaceable shutter and FMC technologies, making it the best solution for wide-area mapping as well as an excellent film camera replacement.

With the new 2.4 MAVinci Dektop Release MAVinci introduces a novelity on the UAS market: the advanced Multi Flight Planning Tool for mapping applications. It automatically calculates multiple flight plans to cover areas which exceed the range of one flight.

The improved accuracy is achieved by unique processing engines that automatically select the best possible network of available satellites and base stations when generating a positioning solution.

The new software is 64-bit, multi-threaded so it processes files much faster and we’ve added a number of quick finishing tools to automatically connect pipe runs and complete the model in record time.

This new capability allows real-time presentation and manipulation of up to thousands of color bands, in high dynamic range (both 8 and 16 bit of colors per channel).