Infoterra launched Skape, a 3D city mapping service designed for architects, planners, local authorities and surveyors. Skape enables users to manipulate urban landscapes online by combining high resolution 3D textured city models with 2D mapping and terrain data. With Skape, new buildings can be imported into a city and viewed in context with their surroundings, …

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has appointed 14 individuals to serve as members of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC), USA. The NGAC provides advice and recommendations on federal geospatial policy and management issues as well as a forum to convey views representative of partners in the geospatial community. The NGAC provides advice on …

The Indian government want to use an integrated GIS synchronised with GPS in the battle against Maoist. DGP (Director General of Police) Bhupinder Singh said, “It is difficult to combat the Maoists in the dense forests. So, we will use the GIS to track them down. We will also use wireless cameras to locate them.”
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Google has launched a map search service in China for travellers taking trips during the Lunar New Year holiday season, despite a row over cyberattacks and censorship. The Google Spring Festival Map is based on the company’s regular map service but has “more features” targeting users’ special needs during this month’s holiday, the busiest travel …

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) announced the release of new satellite images depicting agricultural land cover across most of the nation for the 2009 crop year. The images, referred to as cropland data layers (CDL), are a useful tool for monitoring crop rotation patterns, land use changes, water resources and …

The Nature Conservancy launched Climate Wizard with the intent of making climate change a place-based issue so that people would consider how changes in the earth’s climate affect them. The Nature Conservancy Climate Wizard, powered by ESRI, displays free maps of historic climate change and future projected change. Climate Wizard offers scientists, planners, environmentalists, and …

A one-stop source for biogeographic information collected from U.S. waters and oceanic regions is available from the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Programme. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)-USA website offers a combination of tools, resources and biodiversity information to aide scientists, resource managers and decision makers in the research and analyses critical to sustaining …

Consider the scenario, date 1.1.2020: “Mr. A buys property in Meerut, city in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India from Mr. B in Dec 2019. The ownership-title that Mr. B is the Owner, is guaranteed by the Government Registrar. As a matter of fact, all the properties with the names of their owner are recorded centrally in the computer in the office of Land Survey Department of UP. The location like trees and wells, etc are all photographed on an aerial photograph…

Today, the civil positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) community needs a clear and concise statement of PNT needs. This statement should incorporate all aspects of PNT services and all applications and modes of PNT use. With such a statement, providers of PNT technology and services will be better able to plan for, develop, and implement their PNT services. While I offer my thoughts on this need for the United States, the arguments…

March 2010

ILMF 2010

3-5 March

Denver, CO, USA

http://www.lidarmap.org

Geoform+’2010

30 March- 2 April

Moscow, Russia

www.geoexpo.ru

CARIS 2010

22-25 March

Miami, Florida, USA

www.caris.com/caris2010

April 2010

XXIV FIG International Congress 2010

11 – 16 April 2010

Sydney, Australia

www.fig2010.com

Geo-Siberia 2010

27-29 April

Novosibirsk, Russia

www.geosiberia.sibfair.ru

ASPRS 2010

26-30 April

San Diego, CA, USA

www.asprs.org/SanDiego2010

May 2010

TIDES 2010

20-21 May

Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

derc@mail.pccu.edu.tw

International Conferences on Integrated Navigation Systems

31 May -02 June 2010

Saint Petersburg, Russia

http://www.elektropribor.spb.ru

June 2010

Toulouse Space Show 2010

8 -11 June

Toulouse, …