India has officially inaugurated Data Portal India, a portal for the public to access and use datasets and applications provided by ministries and departments of the Government of India. The Portal functions as a single access point for open government datasets across the country. Currently, there are about 3500 datasets from 49 government departments available for the public to access and use. The datasets include agriculture, commerce and industry, defence, finance, health, information and broadcasting, energy, transport and water resources, among others. http://data.gov.in/
NNG and Ayana Navigation Solutions (ANS) have jointly introduced a new Personal Navigation Device (PND) called the ANS Navigator A-501. This new offering has been designed to find a way over the problems faced by commuters in India due to our rather ‘unique’ infrastructure. The device has a 5-inch screen that runs on NNG’s iGO primo software. It is pre-loaded with the latest India maps and a total of over 7 million Points of Interest (POIs). The unit comes with a 1-year map update guarantee from NNG’s update portal Naviextras. www.zigwheels.com
Satellite and rocket-component builder OHB AG on Aug. 14 said it should know by late September whether the tests of its first Galileo satellites are proceeding well enough to permit their delivery later this year.
Vol. IX, Issue 8, August 2013
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Earthquake analysis by 3-D affine deformations
James L Farrell
Cadastral reform project in South Korea
Kang, Sang-Gu, Kim, Kyung-Il, Kim, Tae-Hoon
Outdoor Mobile Field Robot Navigation
Chung-Liang Chang, Bo-Han Wu, Yong-Cheng Huang
The Himalayan Tsunami in Uttarakhand
Anoop Nautiyal
The use of GIS
to forecast tourism demand
Dr Adnan AL-Jaber
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Francois Erceau
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Most applied methods to determine the tourism demand depend on the availability of demographic data, social and economic characteristics of tourists, tourism customs, the quality of tourist activities and facilities, and other foundations such as the capacity of the tourist destination, and its accessibility…
With over 250 attendees from 40 countries, the RIEGL LIDAR 2013 International Airborne, Mobile, Terrestrial & Industrial User Conference turned out to be the LIDAR event of the year.
that’s what happened at the 2013 Esri International User Conference (Esri UC) in San Diego, California. It’s where will.i.am, the recording artist and founder of the Black Eyed Peas, helped Katherine O’Brien, GIS coordinator for facilities at the University of North Carolina (UNC)
TI Asahi Co., Ltd. and Zoller + Froehlich GmbH have signed OEM agreement for exclusive distribution worldwide of PENTAX branded 3D scanners by TI Asahi Co., Ltd. Under the agreement, Zoller + Froehlich GmbH will OEMsupply PENTAX branded high-precision, state of art 3D and 2D scanners…
The US Department of Homeland Security has released a summary report on its evaluation of the risks to US critical infrastructure from GPS disruptions. The report states, “US critical infrastructure sectors are increasingly at risk from a growing dependency on GPS for positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services.
A European-Union funded consortium invites companies and public agencies from North Africa and the Middle East to submit ideas for extending Galileo GNSS and EGNOS use in the region. Eligible ideas could be for a small pilot project or research study, a technical training plan, and/or a publication or article.
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