Thursday, January 13th, 2011
This paper describes two applications of remote sensing on a near-real time mapping of flood inundation and crop health in the light of natural disaster and crop monitoring. The mapping of flood inundation was carried out over...
Monday, January 10th, 2011
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...
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
The Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA) has recently published a paper entitled 'Setting up a Spatial Industry Statistics Program —A Discussion Paper'. As the Discussion Paper points out, there is currently no means for collecting spatial statistics...
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
Trimble introduced today eCognition version 8.64, an advanced image analysis software suite available for geospatial applications. With the software release, Trimble sets a new standard for native 64-bit object based image analysis—an important technical milestone for the...
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
“We have come up with a better guideline on buffer zone based on soil and vegetation of the area. We are making use of other parameters to come up with a new formula to set aside buffer...
Friday, January 4th, 2008
It is data policy that determines the health of remote sensing, not skill in designing, building or operating spacecraft. This is the opinion of Bob Ryerson, a former head of the Canadian Centre for Remote...
Friday, February 16th, 2007
Michael Jones, the chief technology officer of Google Maps, gave the Map World Forum in Hyderabad some insight into the thinking that is driving the development of the company. He said the company's mission was to...
