The recent collapse of buildings in Said-ul-Ajaib village and fires in Hauz Rani, Tughlakabad Extension, Palam and Vivek Vihar raise the question on the safety of buildings in the Capital’s urban villages and unauthorised colonies. There is an urgent need for safeguarding and mainstreaming them in to planned development.

Ashok Kumar Jain

Worked as Commissioner (Planning), Delhi …

The analysis performed in this report is solely the author’s work and his opinion.

Narayan Dhital

Actively involved to support international collaboration in GNSS related activities. He has regularly supported and contributed to different workshops of the International Committee on GNSS (ICG), and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). As a professional employee, the …

During this review was that most of research that involved the application of GIS and RS in urban sprawl monitoring seemed to be concentrated within a few countries

Mosa Koloko

Institute for Water Studies, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535, South Africa

Thabang Maphanga

Institute for Water …

For two hours on the afternoon of Sept. 16, five operational Galileo satellites broadcasting over Europe transmitted a new encrypted signal for testing. 
On the ground in Andøya, Norway, and at ESA’s navigation laboratory at ESTEC, in the Netherlands, receivers successfully established their location using these encrypted signals, marking the first real-world positioning using Galileo’s upcoming …

NASA’s Starling mission has marked another milestone in spacecraft autonomy by using a new system that determines a satellite’s position in orbit by referencing other objects in space, instead of relying on a navigational network.

The FALCON (Fast Autonomous Lost-in-space Catalog-based Optical Navigation) technology demonstration is a step toward spacecraft being able to operate more independently. As NASA prepares for more missions beyond Earth’s orbit, technologies like FALCON can support lunar satellite swarms, distributed science missions, and human exploration.

Traditional satellite navigation depends on …