A Japanese H-2A rocket launched Japan’s third Michibiki satellite to join a constellation of navigation aids to improve positioning services across the country…

EarthSense to provide Real Time Air Quality Monitoring
EarthSense Systems is equipping commercial delivery vehicles with air pollution sensors as part of a project to test the performance and emissions of low-carbon lorries. Using their state-of-the-art Zephyr air quality monitoring sensors, it will collect real-time pollution measurements to help develop zero-emission running strategies for a …

Icaros and Agrowing announce Integrated Drone product
Icaros Inc., a leading provider of aerial imaging software, and Agrowing, a leading supplier of multispectral sensors and analytics software, have announced an integrated drone product that bundles Icaros’ OneButton software into Agrowing’s solution stack, automating the entire workflow from image capture through generation of fully indexed orthomosaic …

SpaceX notches 15th landing after launching overdue Formosat-5
A SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched a long-delayed remote sensing satellite for the government of Taiwan Aug. 24, executing another first stage landing in the process. Formosat-5 was built by Taiwan’s space agency, the National Space Organization, known by the acronym NSPO. The 450-kilogram spacecraft was the …

Mapping of fishponds are valuable to achieve proper monitoring and inventory of fish production. Due to yearly changes in the fishpond structures and operation, inventory of these aquacultures tend to become time consuming laborious…

In traffic applications, where critical situations can occur, it is increasingly important to monitor the signal environment of GNSS…

A recent amendment to the Land Surveyors Regulations (1971) of Jamaica made by the Land Surveyors Board requires that all Cadastral Surveys must be tied to…

Advances in digital technology and globalisation have imposed a multi-disciplinary approach on survey and mapping.

Image-based 3D reconstruction of buildings and architectural monuments is a well-studied problem in photogrammetry and computer vision…

Russia, China to set up pilot zone to test national navigation systems
Russia and China are set to establish a pilot zone to test the Russian GLONASS and Chinese BeiDou satellite navigation systems on passenger and freight transportation routes going through Kraskino – Hunchun and Poltavka – Dongning checkpoints on the border in Russia’s Primorsky …