In this article students from around the globe were canvassed on their views on their studies in geomatics and GNSS. Interesting commentaries and views were received from twelve students. There were a number of common threads that run through their views and these include the major challenges of costs of equipment and software, distinctions between geomatic education, training and research, beyond space, time…

Economic slowdown, meltdown, recession…
Cost cut, retrenchments, …
Fears, uncertainty, survival issue…
Is geomatics industry immune?
No, if we talk about banking, retail or auto segments…
To an extent yes, if we think about government-driven infrastructure projects.
Defence, internal security, …
Appears, we are heading towards diffi cult times.
It is also a time to correct fundamentals.
Focus on forgotten sectors like agriculture.
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Signal design criteria and parametric analysis
F Zanier, M Crisci, M Luise
Voices of Future
George Cho,
Adam Yau, Chris Goodall, Deok Won Lim, Hedeki Yamada, Karla Edwards, Malambo Moonga Lonesome, Ruzinoor Che
Mat, Sheelan SH.Vaez, Simone Savasta, Suddhasheel Ghosh Susham Biswas, Thilantha Lakmal Dammalage, Xiaofan Li
Land record information system
Dr Aruns Saxena, Sanjeev Saxena And Akanksha Patil

Land Information Management System is defi ned as the combination of human and technical resources, together with a set of organizing procedures that produces information on land in support of a broad range of managerial requirements. Data are raw collection of facts. Data relating to land may be acquired and held in alphanumeric form (for example books), or graphically (for example, as maps or aerial photographs), or digitally…

says Dr V Jayaraman, director, National Remote Sensing Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation, in …

Current global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) [1] are based on signals lying within the L-band of the radio-navigation satellite service (RNSS) spectrum. Since the need for more systems and signals is emerging, new alternative frequency resources are needed. In particular, the C-band frequency portion is envisioned as an option for future GNSSs…

says Ola Rollén, CEO Hexagon AB while discussing Hexagon brand and strategies

Please elaborate on the …

Associate members representing key GNSS user communities – including the US, Russia, European Union, China, India, and Japan – met at the 3rd meeting of the International Committee on GNSS (ICG-3), a voluntary UN backed association that brings together GNSS and augmentation providers. An appeal for collaborative efforts that would move beyond interoperability to “interchangeability” was made.

U-blox supplying GPSS for Longcheer chinese handsets
Chinese mobile phone designer Longcheer Holdings Ltd will integrate Swiss chip maker u-blox’ single chip UBX-G5010 GPS receiver into a series of handsets. The models built incorporating the device, the G600, G800, and G630 have just become available while the G801 and G900 are expected to begin shipments to the Chinese market later in this quarter. www.u-blox.com

Dr R Siva Kumar CEO National Spatial Data Infrastructure on status and directions of NSDI in India

We are not hearing much about NSDI? What is the status of NSDI?
The vision behind NSDI is to make data available and accessible. Keeping this objective in mind policies and framework are formulated. Various aspects of …