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Aug 2019 | No Comment

Galilleo GNSS Service restored
Carlos des Dorides, executive director of the GSA made the following statement after restoration of GNSS services over the Galilleo satellite constellation.
“As members of the GNSS community, you are all undoubtedly aware of the recent technical incident that resulted in the temporary interruption of Galileo navigation and timing services.
The technical incident originated …

Aug 2019 | No Comment

Improve bridge inspections using robotics technology
Powerful robotics technology developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo makes critical bridge inspections cheaper and more reliable by automating the process. The new system combines autonomous robots, cameras and lidar – a remote sensing method using lasers — to systematically collect data for defect detection and analysis.
“We can …

Aug 2019 | No Comment

New versatility to chart production by S-100 data model
Teledyne CARIS has announced the release of its Hydrographic Production Database™ (HPD) 4.0. It is designed to support Hydrographic Offices around the world as they embrace the new S-100 Universal Hydrographic Data Model and explore its many possibilities. Its users will be able to augment their existing …

Aug 2019 | No Comment

We can learn and accomplish a great deal when female land intermediaries work hand-in-hand with chartered surveyors

Emem Isang

Women In Surveying (WIS), Nigeria

Anne Girardin

Cadasta, USA

Madaleine Weber

Cadasta, USA

Land administration is generally the responsibility of governments. But in emerging economies, the lack of financial and human resources prevent many governments from building and maintaining comprehensive land registries and …

Aug 2019 | No Comment

Citizen science programmes have been conducted for several decades to make use the collective intelligence of local people in supplying scientific data. In developed countries, volunteer efforts to update…

Aug 2019 | No Comment

Artificial intelligence is useful in solving urban planning challenges. Fuzzy logic, neural networks combined with geographical information system and sometimes Cellular automata can be very effective…

Aug 2019 | One Comment

Existing Nepalese Land Administration System (LAS) only deals with the formal or statutory land tenure system. Out of total arable land, approximately 75% is formally registered in the national cadaster…

Jul 2019 | No Comment

Volume XV, Issue 7, July 2019

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Overview of marine plastic debris in Vietnam in relation to international context

Le Dai Thang

Ionosphere Total Electron Content (TEC) anomaly detection prior to Earthquake using Global Positioning System observation data: Case study of 2018 Mw 6.2 Tajikistan Earthquake

Gopal Sharma and P L N Raju

PPP: the way ahead for solving land tenure …

Jul 2019 | No Comment

 

‘Plastic’ concerns
Dead whales with kilograms of plastics in their stomach.
An appalling sight
Increasingly being common in Europe and Asia coast.
In May in coast of Sicilia, in April in Sardinia
And in March in the Philippines.
The list goes on.
We dump million of tonnes of plastic debris in seas and oceans
Causing monumental damage to the marine flora and fauna
Aquatic …