Mar 2024 | No Comment

Call for Proposals operationally ready CPNT Services
The Volpe National Transportation Systems Center of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued a solicitation to obtain proposals from vendors with operationally ready complementary positioning, navigation and timing (CPNT) services to be used for testing and evaluation in …

Mar 2024 | No Comment

ESB Networks and Neara partner to reduce risk of climate-related power cuts
Ireland’s Asset Owner and Distribution System Operator, ESB Networks, has partnered with Neara, the leading AI infrastructure modelling platform, to mitigate the impact of extreme weather events on energy supply and speed up the clean …

Mar 2024 | No Comment

Three four-hour flights high above the jungles of Campeche on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula exposed a hidden gem on the ground below: a lost city that was likely abandoned more than 1,000 years ago.
It was all in a day’s work for Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz, an assistant professor in civil …

Mar 2024 | No Comment

This paper sheds light on the key obstacles that prevent the widespread recognition and appreciation of surveying and mapping in Nigeria

PEPPLE, Godwill Tamunobiekiri

Department of Surveying and Geomatics Faculty of Environmental Sciences Rivers State University Port Harcourt, Nigeria

ALAPA, Deborah Gold

DG ALAPA’s Consult Ltd Karu, FCT Abuja.

IRUMHE, Henry Omoloize

Department of Surveying …

Mar 2024 | No Comment

Space geodesy is the basis for the acquisition of data by orbiting satellites or other spacecraft in the fight against climate change that are crucial in the construction of sustainable cities in Africa.

Kêmy Elary Mahugnon ADJAGAN

Department of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin

Jean Raphaël ADELAKOUN

Department of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Abomey-Calavi, …

Mar 2024 | No Comment

Integration of land use, utilities, transport and building on a common network helps optimize space efficiency and configurations.

A K Jain

Worked as Commissioner (Planning), Delhi Development Authority and as a member of the Committee of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs on the DDA (2015). He was a …

Mar 2024 | No Comment

The analysis performed in this report is solely the author’s work and his opinion. State Program: U.S.A (G); EU (E); China (C) “Only MEO- SECM satellites”; Russia (R); Japan (J); India (I)

Narayan Dhital

Actively involved to support international collaboration in GNSSrelated activities. He has regularly supported and contributed to different workshops of the International Committee on …

Mar 2024 | No Comment

GNSS operators extend the PNT performance standards. GNSS-based applications have their own standard requirements for PNT performance. Can the currently existing issue in matching the two standards be overcome?

Renato Filjar

Electrical engineer, a satellite navigation, spatial statistics and statistical learning specialist, a Tenure Professor of Electronics Engineering with Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia, …

Feb 2024 | No Comment

Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2024

Intermediary Cities: Planning with Nature, People and Technology

A K Jain

Land administration and Geospatial information hard talk: Reviewing the posted comments

Dr. Anthony Beck, Vladimir V. Evtimov and Dr. Keith Clifford Bell

GNSS constellation specific monthly analysis summary: December 2023

Narayan Dhital

Spin axis

David Learmount

Galileo HAS will be the most significant game-changer …

Feb 2024 | No Comment

 

In a landmark agreement,
European Union officials have reached a provisional deal on
The world’s first comprehensive laws
To regulate the use of artificial intelligence.
The proposed law contemplates,
To prohibit cognitive behavioural manipulation of people,
Classifying people based on behaviour, socioeconomic status or personal characteristics,
Biometric identification and categorisation of people, …