says Shri KR Sridhara Murthi, Managing Director, Antrix Corporation with reference to the Indian Remote Sensing Satellite.

What are the added features in CARTOSAT-2B as compared to CARTOSAT-2A? What will be its marketing strategy?
CARTOSAT-2B is an identical satellite of CARTOSAT-2A and is meant for continuity of services. They are not available for commercial distribution. As …

INDUSTRY | LBS | GPS | GIS | REMOTE SENSING | GALILEO UPDATE

Blue Marble Geographics Desktop 2.2 Blue Marble Geographics has released Desktop 2.2
with Geographic Calculator 7.5 and Geographic Transformer 6.2. It features support for raster DEM like Digital Terrain Elevation Data and USGS Spatial Data Transfer Standard.
www.bluemarblegeo.com
Hexagon acquires Intergraph
Hexagon has acquired Intergraph for …

gis

INDUSTRY | LBS | GPS | GIS | REMOTE SENSING | GALILEO UPDATE

ArcGIS 10 from ESRI
ArcGIS 10 release makes it much easier to see data in 3D and introduces the notion of time in both visualization and analysis. Users can create, manage, and visualize time-aware data. They can also display and animate temporal datasets …

INDUSTRY | LBS | GPS | GIS | REMOTE SENSING | GALILEO UPDATE

DigitalGlobe: High-resolution imagery for handheld GPS, releases Ortho Product Series
DigitalGlobe is to provide high-resolution imagery for DeLorme’s Earthmate series, including the PN-30, PN-40 and PN-60 models. Hikers, climbers and other outdoor enthusiasts will be able to update their GPS device with accurate …

INDUSTRY | LBS | GPS | GIS | REMOTE SENSING | GALILEO UPDATE

Users drive innovation in Satellite Navigation
A Living Lab is a user-driven open innovation system that speeds up the innovation process by addressing the user’s needs. In a Living Lab firms, public agencies, universities, institutes and users collaborate for creating, prototyping, and validating …

INDUSTRY | LBS | GPS | GIS | REMOTE SENSING | GALILEO UPDATE

GISRoam brings GIS to the iPAD
Cogent3D GISRoamT is a new iPad and iPhone application that allows the user to load, view, collect, search, edit and save ESRI GIS Shapefiles. It includes searching, feature attribution editing, and GPS enhanced creation of new Polygon, …

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The International Committee on GNSS 2010 report
The ICG has published a report on “Current and Planned Global and Regional Navigation Satellite Systems and Satellite- Based Augmentation Systems (SBASes),” which provides an overview of the current status and plans for the world’s GNSS …

Says V P Agrawal, Chairman, Airports Authority of India

In what specific areas of operation is AAI using the GPS technology today?
GPS Technology is used in AAI in the following areas:
a. Performance Based Navigation- Area Navigation COSPAS-SARSAT –Search and Rescue systems (satellite based)
b. Land Survey and Land Management
c. Preparation of Airport Maps and Charts – Cartography
Please …

Says John Pottle Marketing Director, Spirent Communications, Positioning Group

2009 was seen as a difficult year for most businesses. However, 2009 was ‘as expected’ for Spirent in terms of revenues and profits, how did Spirent manage this?
Spirent sells test systems for navigation and positioning across the industry, from government to consumer products, from R&D through to …

September 2010

ITS/Navigation Shanghai 2010

1-3 September

Shanghai, China

www.naviforum.org/

ESA International Summer School on GNSS

1-11 September

Denmark

www.munich-satellite-navigation-summerschool.org/

IPIN 2010

September 15-17, 2010

ETH Zurich, Campus Science City

(Hoenggerberg), Switzerland

www.geometh.ethz.ch/ipin/

ION GNSS 2010

21 – 24 September

Portland, Oregon, USA

www.ion.org

G-Spatial Expo

19-21 September

Yokohama, Japan

g-expo@jsurvey.jp

www.g-expo.jp/en/

GDI APAC

28-30 September

kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

www.geopatialdefenceasia.com

International Astronautical Congress 2010

27 Sep – 01 Oct

Prague Czech Republic

iac2010@guarant.cz

www.iac2010.cz/en

Geospatial Intelligence Summit

28-30 September 2010

Vienna, Austria

www.jacobfleming.com

October 2010

INTERGEO

5-7 October

Cologne, Germany

www.intergeo.de

3rd Int Conf on Geoinformation …