Aerojet Rocketdyne has successfully propelled the fifth GPS IIF military navigation satellite into orbit on February 20th. It was launched from Cape Canaveral

Project Tango is an ambitious attempt by ATAP, a skunkworks division with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) roots that’s been peeled away from Motorola

Kazakhstan will launch one communication satellite and two remote sensing satellites in 2014. Moreover, Kazakhstan will commission ground facilities for a remote sensing space system, as well as a high-precision satellite navigation system. www.azernews.az

Ruckus Wireless has unveiled the Ruckus Smart Positioning Technology (SPoT) service. This cloud-based service gives carriers, service providers and enterprises

AT A GLANCE

► Belgium Municipal GIS Project uses TatukGIS Editor

► NASA and JAXA launch new satellite to measure global rain and snow

► Raytheon demonstrates Griffi n Block III missile

STMicroelectronics has released Teseo II single-chip satellite-tracking IC to the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission

Urban Population in India increased from 62 million (19%) in 1951 to 377 million (31%) in 2011, and is expected to increase up to around 37% by 2021.

The problems in sharing of geospatial data among public sector organizations is a well established fact (Onsrud et. al., 1995; McLaughlin, 2003; Williamson et. al., 2004; Nebert, 2004; Masser, 2005; Georgiadou, 2006; Nama Raj Budhathoki and Zorica Nedovic-Budic

Satellite navigation relies on the visibility of a sufficient number of satellites. As the number of satellites increases, some problems such as shadowing in urban areas are reduced although not completely removed. In other instances, such as in tunnels, positioning by satellites is not possible.

From 1992 to 2011, air traffic grew by approximately 72% in Germany [1] which is equivalent to a yearly increase of about 4%. As air traffic continuously increases, ground infrastructure like airports, number of runways and necessary capacity of air traffic routes need to grow too.