Asian Surveying & Mapping
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Intermap Announces $1 Million Program in Malaysia and Business Updates
DENVER – Intermap Technologies (TSX: IMP; OTCQB: ITMSF) (“Intermap” or...
From Kuala Lumpur To Singapore: Malaysia’s High-Speed Rail Resurgence Sparks China’s Pan-Asia Vision
The Malaysian government is once again working on building...
Japan’s Synspective successfully launches fourth SAR satellite
Synspective, the Japanese provider of Satellite/Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)...
South Korea’s Joowon Industrial Selects Aeva 4D LiDAR for Automated Power Line Inspection Program
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & SEONGNAM CITY, South Korea- Aeva®...
Synspective’s SAR Satellite, StriX-3, Successfully Reaches Its Target Orbit and Spreads Its Wings
TOKYO, 2024, March 13 – Synspective Inc., a SAR...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Commissions Genesys Digital Twin Map Stack in His Parliamentary Constituency
Mumbai: The Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi, recently...
Geo Connect Asia 2024 to unveil geospatial’s transformative power
Geo Connect Asia (GCA) is set to return to...
Iran launches ‘domestically developed’ imaging satellite from Russia
The launch of Pars 1 is fourth this year,...
Astranis relocating hobbled debut satellite from Alaska to Asia
TAMPA, Fla. — Astranis is moving its debut satellite...
Asia space race heats up as China, Japan and India reach for the stars
After another year of US aeronautics company SpaceX dominating...

earthquakes

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Disaster Preparedness Long Overdue

I’m referring to disaster preparedness. We all know how many lives have been lost, how many homes, schools, roads, and other facilities and infrastructure have been destroyed by earthquakes, floods, typhoons, and other calamities. German watch, an international...

Monday, November 14th, 2011

Most Rural Houses Vulnerable to Quakes

All Chinese houses built before 1979 and 90 percent of rural houses built after 1979 are not quake-proof in their design, said Sun Botao, head of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of China Earthquake Administration at Japan's Revelation...

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

Disaster Measures in Japan

The archipelago of Japan is often struck by natural disasters including earthquakes, floods, and eruptions of volcanoes, which could be disastrous. It is one of important tasks of GSI to provide data for disaster prevention and mitigation...

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

Asia – The Rise of Geospatial Tools Meeting Earthquake Challenges

The use and application of geospatial tools and technologies has rapidly expanded throughout Asia recently. Major events in Japan, Pakistan, New Zealand and China have given rise to a growing awareness that geospatial and geomatics technologies can...

Sunday, May 22nd, 2011

Scientists May Have Found Quake Warning Signal

According to a team of NASA and Russian space and physical scientists, in the days before the March 11 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, the atmosphere directly above the epicenter rapidly heated up. In a presentation at the...

Friday, May 20th, 2011

Trimble Navigation’s New Zealand Office Suffers Major Fire

Trimble Navigation’s Christchurch, New Zealand office was gutted by an overnight fire early this week. It took 40 firefighters to control the fire, and several were injured when a floor collapsed. The structure had been lightly damaged...

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

Geological Information Available at Click of a Button

Developed by CSIRO and AuScope in collaboration with other research organisations around the country, a new open-access network of geospatial data, and its supporting infrastructure – the Spatial Information Services Stack (SISS) –  will enable users to...

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Geophysical Activity Leads to Geospatial Technology Use

Geophysical activity around the globe results in a need to monitor the earth's physical activity closely. Earthquakes, volcanoes and geological investigations are all monitored so internal and surface activities can be studied, understood and even modeled. Recent...