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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Spirent engineers and equipment will be in attendance at The Royal Orchid hotel, Bangalore on Friday 21st May to provide a seminar programme aimed at explaining the importance of testing in a multi-GNSS environment and how Spirent simulation platforms can help reduce your project timescales, accelerate time to market and reduce costs.
We’d be delighted if …

A household name with its ever pervading presence on the internet, Google has revolutionised our lives. Their ever increasing bouquet of offerings and services has had an impact on net users across the world. Google follows its own core principles and has been able to play a pivotal role in information access across many parts of the world…

Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry (SVLBI) is an extension of the ground-based VLBI technology to space, which involves a simultaneous observation of the same radio source by two stations; one on the ground, the other being space-based. It could not only overcome the baseline length limitation problem specific to groundbased VLBI technology, with a great improvement on the observation resolution, but could also directly…

The Netherlands are a small country in the North West part of Europe with a high density of population. The area of only 41.000 km² is used by 16 Mio. Inhabitants, resulting into 400 inhabitants per km². There is an excellent infrastructure with 2.300 km of motorways and 137.000 km of roads in total complemented by a network of railways and bicycle tracks. The roads are used by 8 Mio. cars and 140.000 heavy goods vehicles. Although…

The NRSC User Interaction Workshop 2010 organised by the National remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Department of Space, India was an opportunity to inform the Geo spatial user community regarding the various developments that have happened in terms of Products and services available to them and also for the user community to share their experiences.
G. Balachandran, …

With the wide access to relatively inexpensive or freeware computer software for map production and using the Internet and the World Wide Web (Web) for dissemination this process has been automated somewhat, enabling the production of products and (Web) publishing to be fairly straight-forward. Using the Web as a publishing medium has allowed these relatively small voices to disseminate their viewpoint, which might otherwise be impossible…

The Munich Satellite Navigation Summit 2010 was held from March 9 – 11 in the famous Residenz Munich, traditionally organized by the Institute of Geodesy and Navigation of the University FAF Munich. Prof. Bernd Eissfeller, Director of the hosting Institute, was delighted to welcome 450 attendees from about 25 nations.
GNSS – quo vadis?
This year´s motto …