INSPIRE Inspires
Sincere initiatives to success stories
Various national endeavors to regional ambitions
Sustained efforts to impatience for success
Data, metadata, architecture to complex technicalities
Growing complexities to varied user demands
Investments to return on investments
Many such issues were discussed at
INSPIRE (INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe) 2014 conference
In an ambience of positivity and hope, at Aalborg, Demark.
The INSPIRE directive came …

August 2014

Smart Geospatial Expo

26 – 28 August

Seoul, S. Korea

http://smartgeoexpo.kr/eng/

September 2014

GIS Forum MENA

8 – 10 September

Abu Dhabi, UAE

www.gisforummena.com

ION GNSS+ 2014

8-12 September

Tampa, Florida, USA

http://www.ion.org

GIScience 2014

23 – 26 September

Vienna, Austria

www.giscience.org

AMFM GIS Italia Conference 2014

25 September

Rome, Italy

www.amfm.it

 
October 2014

Second symposium on serviceoriented mapping

6 – 8 October

Hasso Plattner Institute at University of Potsdam, Germany

http://somap.cartography.at

ISGNSS2014

22 – 24 October

Jeju Island, Korea

www.isgnss2014.org

INTERGEO 2014

7-9 October

Berlin, …

Trimble has introduced a new version of its powerful office software suite used by surveyors and geospatial professionals for processing and analyzing geospatial data—Trimble® Business Center. Version 3.21 introduces new coordinate reference systems and a specialized Advanced Drafting module…

The Office for National Statistics (ONS), UK has used open source tools and GIS mapping software from Esri to create a single source of statistical data that can be easily…

Three model satellite stations based on China’s domestically made Beidou navigation system were shown to the public recently in an industrial estate…

The SPOT 7 Earth-observation satellite, designed and developed by Airbus Defence and Space, was launched on 30 June by a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle…

Sygic has just introduced the next generation of its GPS Navigation application, available on App Store. Update for Android users will be released in the second half of this year. The new native application, the result of three years’ worth of work, was completely remade from the ground up.

Tests conducted by Rx Networks and the European GNSS Agency (GSA) confirm that Galileo provides real added value to citizens using Location Based Services (LBS). When used in addition to GPS and/or GLONASS, Galileo proved to significantly improve accuracy in challenging environments.

The Automatic Identification System (AIS) is an autonomous and continuous broadcast system that exchanges maritime safety/security information between participating vessels and shore stations. In addition to providing a means for maritime administrations

Detailed spatial information about environmental pollution/climate change is indispensable for land resources management, environmental decisionmaking and sustainable development. Distribution patterns of soil copper (Cu) content have a large potential to affect plant growth