Volume XIII, Issue 08, August 2017
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Indoor Positioning Using Probabilistic Virtual Anchor Point Graphs
Eike Jens Hoffmann
Synchronet service demonstration results in DEMETRA H2020 Project
Enrico Varriale, Quirino Morante
GNSS data for ionosphere characterization
Josip Vukovic´ , Tomislav Kos
PGM2016: A new Geoid Model for the Philippines
R Gatchalian, R Forsberg, A Olesen
My Coordinates
EDITORIAL
Mark your calendar
SEPTEMBER 2017 TO …
September 2017
INSPIRE 2017
4 – 5 September, Kehl Germany 6 – 8 September, Strasbourg France
http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/events/inspire-conference-2017
Interdrone 2017
6 – 8 September Las Vegas, USA
www.interdrone.com
ESA-JRC Summer School on GNSS 2017
4 – 15 SeptemberSvalbard-Spitsbergen, Norway
www.esa-jrc-summerschool.org
56th Photogrammetric Week ‘17
11-15 September
Stuttgart, Germany
www.ifp.uni-stuttgart.de/phowo
ION GNSS+ 2017
25 – 29 September Portland, USA
www.ion.org
Intergeo 2017
26 – 28 September Berlin, Germany
www.intergeo.de
October 2017
GIS Congress-2017
2 – 3 October Vienna, Austria
https://www.bentley.com/en/yii/home
Year …
Artificial Wisdom
Elon Musk, the chief of Tesla and SpaceX
Has repeatedly been admonishing
On potentially apocalyptic future of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
and appealing for proactive regulations on AI.
However, MarK Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO
Has called Musk a ‘naysayer’
And termed his doomsday prophesy as result of unnecessarily negativity.
If the increasing obsession of mankind with …
China plans space-based, solarpowered telecom drones: Report
A research institute affiliated with China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp is developing the project “Feiyun,” which means “flying cloud,” the Global Times reported, citing another report in the Science and Technology Daily. The network will be based in “near space”, it said, adding the system will be …
Google’s Waze launches navigation app for car dashboards
Waze is bringing its navigation and traffic monitoring app to more than 100 models of car as it expands its satnav software beyond smartphones.
The app will be available in cars that use Android Auto, Google’s dashboard software, including models from BMW, Vauxhall, Renault, Ford and Volkswagen …
Trimble introduces new android application
Trimble has introduced Trimble® Penmap® for Android™, a cloudconnected application for field surveying and high-accuracy GIS data collection that works on mobile handhelds, smartphones and tablets. Trimble Penmap for Android focuses on core survey and mapping tasks such as cadastral and boundary surveys, establishing local control, stake-outs, quality checks and …
Former ISRO chairman UR Rao dies
Eminent space scientist and former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman Udupi Ramachandra Rao passed away. He was 85.
He was suffering from age related ailments and breathed his last at his residence in the city. Rao is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter, ISRO officials …
DFS launches Precision Navigation
A new precision navigation procedure, RNP-1 (Required Navigation Performance), has been launched at Frankfurt International Airport, according to German air navigation service provider (ANSP) DFS. With RNP-1 and Radius-to-fix, they are increasing their precision navigation in air traffic to a new quality level, which has not been achieved in Germany.
Pilots …
Coastal Protection in Thailand by SuperSurv 10
Supergeo has announced that the cuttingedge mobile GIS app- SuperSurv 10 has been selected by a government agency that is in charge of protecting marine and coastal resources in Thailand for spatial data collection. The core mission of this department is to conserve and restore the precious flora …
ESA communication team hands off responsibility to GSA
After four years of work, the European Space Agency (ESA) team tasked with keeping the world informed on the status of the Galileo satellite navigation system has formally passed on its responsibility to a European Union agency. This shift is part of a wider transfer of responsibilities, …