The Singapore Land Authority’s SiReNT. GPS reference system is operational, according to Victor Khoo, the manager of survey services at SLA. The uptake by the nation’s cadastral surveyors may be somewhat disappointing, Khoo says, but...
Monday, July 16th, 2007
BVR Mohan Reddy is the chairman and managing director of Infotech Enterprises Limited, based in Hyderabad, India. He founded Infotech in 1991, as a technology services and solutions company. Along with its engineering and IT services, Infotech...
Saturday, June 16th, 2007
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a new report last week. It was the third in a series of four planned reports. The latest document says it is possible to reduce greenhouse gas...
Saturday, June 16th, 2007
Almost 247 million people live in low elevation coastal zones, according to figures in a paper published in the journal Environment and Urbanisation. Scientists from the Centre for International Earth Science and the International Institute for...
Monday, April 16th, 2007
One of the most difficult and perplexing problems facing Google at the moment is how to update and correct its maps. The company's Lars Rasmussen says the quest for perfection might be misplaced. 'We should be...
Monday, April 16th, 2007
New Zealand Aerial Mapping has recently commenced operating a new Optech ALTM airborne laser scanner. The unit has an integrated waveform digitiser, which records the complete energy return detected by the sensor. NZAM is one of...