9th Annual Geospatial Intelligence Conference and Exhibition,
21 – 23 January,
QEIiConference Centre, London,
www.geoplace.com;

Recently, the arrests of some unsuspecting citizens
For their alleged ‘offensive comments’ in twitter and facebook,
In the biggest democracy of the world,
Triggered a debate on ‘freedom’ of ‘expression’.

UN-GGIM: Global vision and perspectives:
Joobin Im, Paul Cheung, Teo CheeHai, Dr Hiroshi Murakami, Dr Li Pengde, Datuk Prof Sr Dr AbdulKadir Bin Taib, Samuela Naicegucegu;

Measuring effects of mining on surface structure:
Asst Prof Dr Eray CAN, Prof Dr enolKU ÇU, Asst Prof Dr Hakan AKÇIN, Assoc Prof Dr Çetin MEKIK;

In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in the occurrence of natural disasters; for example, earthquake in Haiti and Hurricane Katrina. Taking 2005 Hurricane Katrina of New Orleans in the United States for example, approximately 150,000 human lives were endangered, despite efforts to evacuate residents to safe shelters.

Mining subsidence as a result of mine productions underneath the settlement areas, especially in Western European countries where underground coalmining is of great value, has been long a crucialmining issue with economic, social, technicaland environmentalaspects.

Various nations have passed legislation that makes it possible for ruralcommunities to register their lands as a single legalentity and act as decentralized land administration and management bodies. However, due to various political, financialand capacity constraints, these laws are often not implemented successfully.

Considering its commitment to highlight the user rights issues, Integrated SpatialAnalytics Consultants (ISAC) has teamed up with Portuguese and Dutch academicians to focus in the current paper on the Indian Forest Rights Act from 2006 as the Use Case of indigenous property rights. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples reaffirmed the importance of the protection of indigenous property rights in Articles 25- 29.

NavCom Technology, Inc has announced a new feature for its GNSS receivers, StarFire Over IP. It allows users to access StarFire corrections over the Internet, giving them access to the same reliable five centimeter globalpositioning accuracy without the need for a base station.

An upset Tokyo has lodged a protest with New Delhiagainst the Survey of India not indicating ‘Sea of Japan’ on its maps by that name. India’s official map-making agency, the Survey of India has omitted naming the water body in its English version, though the Hindione calls the area ‘Japan Sagar’ on its maps. A marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Asian mainland, the Japanese archipelago and Sakhalin, it is bordered by Japan, North Korea, Russia and South Korea.

A Soyuz ST-B launcher carrying two Galileo in-orbit validation (IOV) satellites took off as scheduled at 18:15 GMT (20:15 CEST; 2:15 p.m. EDT) on October 12 from the European Spaceport in French Guiana. All the stages of the Soyuz vehicle performed as planned and the Fregat-MT upper stage released the Galileo satellites into their targeted orbit close to 23,200 kilometer altitude, three hours 45 minutes after liftoff.