The European Commission, Directorate- General Environment, is inviting comments on the implementation of the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) Directive (2007/2/EC).

Applanix Corp and American Aerospace Advisors Inc have completed a successful series of test flights of AAAI’s RS-16 platform equipped with Applanix’ DMSUAV

Galileo satellites have recently achieved first successful in-fl ight tracking of a test machine using aircraft-generated longitude, latitude and altitude. A pair of Galileo test receivers was used aboard the aircraft, the same kind currently employed for Galileo field-testing.

The KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm has developed sensorequipped footwear that, using sensors inside the heel of a boot, makes it possible for incidents…

30th December 2013 is an important milestone in the history of Indian civil aviation as initial certification of GAGAN (GPS Aided GEO Augmented Navigation) has been issued by DGCA and India joins the elite club of countries along with USA, Japan and Europe to implement the operational SBAS

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GAGAN certification
Satellite Based Augmentation System gets another boost,
As India joins USA, Japan and Europe to implement the operational SBAS.
GAGAN (GPS Aided GEO Augmented Navigation) achieves
RNP 0.1 certifi cation on December 30, 2013.
Type 2 message will be available in February 2014.
This enables Indian Flight Information Region (FIR) to support satellite based
augmentation services for precision navigation by …

Urban areas garbage is collected either by a government agency or private contractor. Garbage disposal constitutes a basic and expected service or function of urban local body.

Spatio-temporal rainfall changes at tropics had raised concern among scientists. However, comprehensive studies at catchment scale of Southeast Asia where the combined regional and local factor is a tough task to be carried out due to the inherent limitations of rainfall data sources especially in the remote

Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) networks have been utilized for the last two decades in most developed and some developing countries by surveyors, geomatics and earth scientists and engineers. They handle Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data which support three dimensional positioning not only