Trimble announced it has formed a new industry solutions group within its Mapping & GIS Division. The new group, known as the Market Solutions Team, will work with strategic customers in key industries such as utilities, natural resources, transportation and municipal government to develop advanced data use solutions for field workers involved in the collection, …

India and Russia are planning for a joint venture to produce dual band GPS / GLONASS global positioning receivers for civilian and military use.
“We are actively working on a project to establish a joint venture on Indian territory to produce various navigation equipment. A group of our negotiators will head there for another round …

Pythagoras is a standalone CAD program that focuses on markets concerning surveying, constructing, and engineering. Its drawing and calculation functions give the user the possibility to treat measurements accurately and to finish drawings swiftly. With the modular system, the user can compose a software package according their needs. Digital terrain models, road design, importing field …

Broadcom Corporation single-chip GPS solution for mobile devices sets new standards in performance and low power consumption with stateof- the-art sensitivity and navigation performance.
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ERDAS announced support for WorldView-2 satellite products. Using ERDAS IMAGINE and LPS 2010, GEOINT and military analysts, state and local governments, civil organizations, first responders, and non-governmental organizations can now transform WorldView-2 imagery into timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence.
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Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K. Radhakrishnan said the flight- testing of the indigenous cryogenic stage of the GSLV D3 would be conducted in April. The vehicle would carry GAST-4, a communication satellite. “Though we had several GSLV flights, we were using the Russian cryogenic stages,” he said.
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Brazil and China shall launch the fourth China Brazil Environmental Remote Sensing (CBERS) satellite in 2011. At the initial phase (1988-2003), two satellites, CBERS-1 and CBERS-2, were sent into space. China was responsible for 70 percent of the first series of satellites. The construction of CBERS-3 and 4 will be shared equally.
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Ukraine to form groups of remote Earth-sensing satellites consisting of 11 spacecraft in orbit by 2030, according to National Space Agency of Ukraine. The groups will consist of space vehicles with optical sensors and space vehicles with radio frequency sensors. Ukraine is preparing a launch of Sich-2 earth observation satellite to orbit this year.

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The Ministry of Environment & Forests, India has approved National Forestry Information Network and IT for fire monitoring under an action plan to enhance forestry science. The National Forestry Information Network would be established using remote sensing, GIS and MIS. All land based forestry interventions will be geo-mapped and monitored on a time scale, and …

The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) has called for the systematic monitoring of glaciers by satellites in support of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. In 2007, ESA started the GlobGlacier project as a major effort to develop and apply existing methodologies to monitor glaciers and contribute to a global glacier inventory using satellite …