In the historical background section on the ISPRS site it says, “There is no clear-cut distinction between photogrammetry and remote sensing, and it is for this reason that the Society changed its name in 1980.” What then is the individual significance of ‘photogrammetry’ and ‘remote sensing’ for ISPRS?

In a unique collaboration between national space agencies, the US and Japan began combining elements of their satellite resources to increase a critical type of Earth observation data. The partnership will more than double the quantity of this data that is used to explore earthquake hazards, forest declines, and changing water…

Lockheed Martin has nearly finished with critical design review for the nextgeneration of the GPS satellite. Its team working on the GPS III satellite constellation was on schedule for the critical design review phase of the program. The team has finished 26 of the 65 CDRs for the program. Overall space vehicle…

Eurocopter and Funkwerk Avionics have successfully completed a helicopter test flight with an EC145 in the Galileo test bed GATE in Berchtesgaden, Southern Germany. The test flight was observed by IFEN GmbH, the operator of the GATE test bed. The test marked the first time that signals from Galileo were used for navigation…

SimpleGeo location services infrastructure provides the foundation for new level of intelligent, location-aware applications. It makes it easy and cost-effective to add geo-aware features to applications. Built with developers in mind, it eliminates the excessive time and money spent to build and scale location infrastructure.

In a pioneering effort, an Atlas of Madhya Pradesh (MP), India has been prepared for the visually challenged in Hindi Braille. It contains eight theme maps on 1) Districts of MP, 2) National Highways passing through State, 3) Important district roads, 4) Railway Lines passing through state and their Junctions…

Leica XPro, Leica Geosystems’ line sensor workflow has been updated with several new features. It includes fast highresolution orthophoto processing of RGB imagery by combining the HiRes data acquisition mode implemented in the Leica ADS product line with post-processing algorithms…

Nature strikes at will.
Some areas and people are better prepared.
Some are not.
Haiti is a case in point.
Poor infrastructure.
Inadequately trained personnel.
Weak cooperation among institutions.
And the situation worsened
When the earthquake struck.
Tremendous efforts have been made.
And are being made.
Still.
Any lesson learnt?

Bal Krishna, Editor
bal@mycoordinates.org

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