Outdoor Mobile Field Robot Navigation Chung-Liang Chang, Bo-Han Wu and Yong-Cheng Huang | National GIS in India: Setting agenda Dr Mukund Rao | 3D Cadastral complexities in dense urban areas of developing countries Tarun Ghawana, Joao Hespanha, Pradeep Khandelwal, Peter van Oosterom | GIS in pipeline route selection Abdul-Lateef Balogun, Abdul Nasir Matori, Khamaruzaman Yussof, Dano Umar Lawal, Imtiaz Ahmed Chandio | Interviews Andrea Hildebrand, Brent A Jones | Download your copy of July 2013 issue!

 

  NAVIGATION  
 

Outdoor Mobile Field Robot Navigation
Chung-Liang Chang, Bo-Han Wu and Yong-Cheng Huang
This paper proposes a low-cost field robot capable of short-range field navigation, obstacle avoidance, color identification and spraying. Multiple micro-electro-mechanical sensors (MEMs) and multiple micro-controllers using a multi-layer fuzzy logic decision scheme were integrated to guarantee the autonomy of the mobile robot. We present here the first part...
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  URBAN PLANNING  
 
3D Cadastral complexities in dense urban areas of developing countries
Tarun Ghawana, Joao Hespanha, Pradeep Khandelwal, Peter van Oosterom
Dense urban spaces in developing countries are facing new challenges of land management on technical and institutional coordination level. The current paper aims to study the multi-stakeholding urban area locations in Delhi and around where (infrastructural) changes are creating the complex land management situations for the authorities involved...
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  POLICY  
 
National GIS in India: Setting agenda
Dr Mukund Rao
National GIS is an “overarching system cutting across existing systems” and thus complexity is “core embedded” in its inherent character – after all, integrating human, technological, social, cultural, competitive and temporal dimensions is a difficult task but not impossible...
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  "When the return on investment is part of the equation, affordability rarely is a factor. Good cadastral systems return many fold their cost in economic benefit" - Brent A Jones  



 
  Industry news   Galileo update   Other News
 
NavCom introduces StarFire Rapid Recovery

‘Making Sense in the Sky’

European Secured Navigation arrives with First Galileo PRS-only Positioning

Spirent launches Multi-Frequency GNSS Testing System

‘We track GAGAN L1 and L5’

Hemisphere GNSS New Crescent Vector GNSS Compass Module

TerraStar GNSS Positioning for African Aerial Surveys

‘FOCUS 30 robotic solution is best described as Simply Powerful’

Trimble’s new UAS targets big survey, geospatial projects

accelGRX, a platform for accelerating GNSS receiver development

INTERGEO 2013 - Most awaited industry event of the year!

Leica Nova MS50 MultiStation

USAF to integrate Locata’s non-GPS based positioning system

Esri Joins Global In- Location Alliance

 


SSTL… Payloads packed off for Galileo
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) has successfully completed the delivery of the payloads for the first four Full Operational Capability (FOC) satellites of GALILEO to prime contractor OHB System AG. The payloads were shipped to OHB in Bremen, Germany for integration of the payload to platform and the start of the satellite integration and test activities. The delivery of these four navigation payloads is part of an on-going contract, awarded to the OHB-SSTL consortium in 2010 for the first 14 Galileo FOC satellites...[more]

European Patent Office awards best patented GNSS related innovation
With the development and extension of the European satellite navigation system Galileo the protection of innovative technologies and applications is becoming more and more important for Europe’s inventors. In 2012, the European Patent Office (EPO) granted 104 patents in the field of satellite navigation technologies. For the first time the EPO will award a prize within the ESNC 2013 to the best GNSS application innovation that has been granted a European patent...[more]


 
Shanghai to invest in satellite navigation system

Russia set to launch four satellites

Africa to use GPS and phones to help map neglected diseases

US House Committee Cut GPS Budget

43% UAE mobile customers using LBS

Maxis launches locationbased ad service

LBS can become $2-5 bn sector in 3 years: COAI

G8 leaders sign Open Data Charter

Crowd-Sourcing the Nation: USGS seeking more volunteers

WB to conduct mapping of renewable energy sources

Survey of India to share expertise with Thailand

First images from space by Planet Labs

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Market (2013 – 2018)

NRSA report ignored by govt.

 

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