Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
ETH-Zurich Assistant Professor Lian Pin Koh has built an autonomous drone that can be used for nature conservation purposes, such as surveying large mammals and monitoring the rainforest. He is excited about the initial results of the...
Friday, February 24th, 2012
Before our Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation devices can inform us where we are, the satellites that form the GPS need to know precisely where they themselves are. For that, they rely on a network of sites...
Friday, February 24th, 2012
Surveyors are experts at collecting spatial data with high accuracy and precision. But cartographers are masters when it comes to making maps and graphic products that represent surveying information. For users of cartographic products though, how the...
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Australian-owned AEROmetrex, leader in digital aerial data acquisition and processing, and New-Zealand company Hawkeye UAV, pioneer in commercial Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operations have signed a distributor agreement for AEROmetrex to market Hawkeye-UAV technology and imagery throughout...
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
In his account of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14, Sir Douglas Mawson (1915) described his encounter with large icebergs, resembling ice walls, during the voyage south to Adélie Land in January 1912: 'a south‒south‒east was blowing...
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
The water environment's observation system is too outdated to manage the large river systems and the rapid pace of development in the country.Viet Nam has a dense system of rivers and streams, which makes up 2 per...
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
Sea ice is an important contributor to global climate changes. Specifically, sea ice thickness helps to understand ocean circulation and heat transfer. The ability to capture more information about global sea ice thickness has advanced considerably and...
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
AeroMetric has acquired and installed the new Leica ALS70 - an ultra high point density corridor and wide-area LiDAR system. The model acquired is the ALS70-HP, capable of achieving measurement rates of 500 kHz, and offering unsurpassed control over the...
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
After officially proclaimed as one of World’s Seven Wonders of Nature, another global recognition is in the works for the Puerto Princesa Underground River (PPUR) in Palawan. Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Ramon J. P. Paje said the...
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Trimble introduced a new addition to its industry-leading line of laser construction tools—the Spectra Precision UL633 Universal Laser. The rugged, versatile and automatic self-leveling laser can be used in a wide variety of layout and alignment applications...
