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Survey of India, Genesys International Sign MoU to Develop ‘Digital Twins’ Of Indian Cities
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IBM Advances Geospatial AI to Address Climate Challenges
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Australia Greenlights Game-Changing Era: Commercial Drones with ParaZero Safety Systems to Fly
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Asia’s top satellite operator aims to launch solar energy forecast system in Europe
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Japan to set up $6.7bn JAXA fund to develop space industry
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China launches a satellite to compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Data Intelligence: The Australian Flood Prevention Wall

Last year saw extensive flood damage throughout the Brisbane, Australia area. Damage estimates were in the billions of dollars. Infrastructure was destroyed, crops were submerged and the energy industry was impacted significantly. The toll on human life...

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Pitney Bowes Business Insight Understands The Cost of Floods to Communities

Floods happen, it is a way of Australian life. What we do to reduce the impact on our communities is what matters. Pitney Bowes Business Insight understands the cost and complexity many local authorities face as they...

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

Influence of Coastal Vegetation – Tsunami Wave Impact in West Aceh

This study used 180 transects perpendicular to over 100 km on the west coast of Aceh, Indonesia to analyze the influence of coastal vegetation, particularly cultivated trees, on the impact of the 2004 tsunami. Satellite imagery; land cover...

Monday, June 6th, 2011

GIS Proves Key to Flood and Fire Management

Geographic Information System (GIS) technology is the key to reducing the social and economic tolls of flood, fire and extreme weather events, according to Gary Johnson, Esri Australia Principal Consultant for Financial Services, speaking at the Australian...

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

Satellite-Based System to Minimise Earthquake Damage

Earthquake vulnerability tests have been conducted in some 19,000 buildings in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet, the disaster management minister tells parliament. "All the buildings will be examined step by step. Moreover, initiatives have been taken to develop a...

Monday, January 10th, 2011

GI4DM – Geo-information for Disaster Management

Geomatics technologies are able to support management and recovery in the aftermath of manmade and natural disasters. However, disaster management also poses big challenges in all aspects of the geo-information cycle, from data acquisition, processing, management and...