March 2008

Mapping Errors Beena Chintalapuri, V Raghu Venkataraman   |  A real time GPS/INS integrated system  Yong Li, Peter Mumford, Chris Rizos   |  Science of Interoperability  David Schell, DRF Taylor   |  Google exposed   |  Sampling the world  Rainer Mautz   |  GPS Antenna : from relative to absolute  Aristidis Fotiou, Christos Pikridas, Militiadis Chatzinikos   | 

   

Mapping Errors
BEENA CHINTALAPURI, V RAGHU VENKATARAMAN
Application of cognitive psychology for reduction of mapping errors  [more]
Sampling the world
RAINER MAUTZ
How would the world look like if you were standing on an arbitrary point on earth? An interesting project that has a goal to visit the degree intersections of each latitude and longitude on land [more]

A real-time GPS/INS integrated system
YONG LI, PETER MUMFORD, CHRIS RIZOS
A multisensor integrated platform based on a field programmable gate array has been developed at School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems, University of New South Wales [more]
 
GPS Antenna : from relative to absolute
ARISTIDIS FOTIOU, CHRISTOS PIKRIDAS, MILITIADIS CHATZINIKOS
Application to a Greek regional network [more]

Positional accuracy and integration of geographic data
CARSTEN RÖNSDORF
Recent Positional Accuracy Improvement initiatives across Europe, North America and elsewhere suggest the need to constantly update and manage the geographic data to reflect ongoing [more]

  
The Pentagon has banned Google from taking photos and video footage of US military bases… Dr Rajabifard, Department of Geomatics, Univ of Melbourne and Advisor, Coordinates is President of GSDI now… The merger between Topcon and Sokkia was confirmed on Feb 5. Sokkia will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Topcon …

 
Industry news
 
Galileo update
 
Other news

MobileMapper6,ProMark 500 by Magellan

Guidance system for army program

Sprinter 50 from Leica Geosystem

PCI Geomatics India launched

Hemisphere GPS introduces Outback S3

Navteq covers APAC

Action against SiRF

Pictometry and AAMHatch sign pact

Contex awarded BERTL 4 Stars

New products by Javad

Defence Geospatial Intelligence Middle East

 
Parliamentary to abolish GNSS Supervisory Authority

A proposal before the European Parliament’s Industry Committee would abolish the European GNSS Supervisory Authority [More]

EU deal on financing for Galileo project

The European Union is likely to back a taxpayer financed bailout of its troubled Galileo project [More]

Second Galileo spacecraft prepares for launch

GIOVE-B has successfully completed its test campaign and will depart from ESTEC, the agency’s European Research and Technology Centre [More]

 
2.2m cars in Europe have telematics device

Wayfinder and MapmyIndia gets closer

ISPRS Brock Gold medal for Prof. Gruen

India to have100 SIGMA 95 navigation systems

GPS handsets prices expected to fall

SatGuide for laptops and desktops

Broadway to launce GyPSii into India


Next generation NZ maps

ION 2008 appointments

Iran's space ambitions ride on Safir

Free software for GIS

Honeywell CEO sees acquisitions in 2008

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