A central issue in designing complex networked systems for critical applicative domains is the possibility of keeping each node of the network synchronized with respect to a given system time scale. The problem is even more critical when the synchronization accuracy determines directly the performances of the whole system.

July 2008

International Summer Schoool on GNS

21 – 31 July

Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany

http://www.munich-satellite-navigationsummerschool.org

August 2008

ESRI’s 28th annual International User Conference

August 4-8, 2008 in San Diego, California

http://www.esri.com

3rd Indonesian Geo-Information …

GeoSpatial Experts have introduced an integrated magnetic compass/GPS receiver module for the Ricoh 500SE digital camera It had a sole built-in GPS receiver, which enabled the camera to acquire the location coordinates of each photo and embed them with the photo as an attribute without an external GPS device.

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

Satellite technology to aid fishermen in India
The Indian Remote Sensing Applications Centre at Hyderabad has been giving readings of the remote sensing satellite to all the fishing harbors to help the fishermen to track the fish shoals. The system works on the …

Australia is looking to GPS and inertial sensor technologies as the basis for a modernized train management system, using Lockheed Martin to help develop it. The company has received a US$74.8 million contract from the Australian Rail Track Corporation Ltd. for the proofof-concept phase of the Advanced Train Management System (ATMS).

The soaring food price in recent months has been unprecedented.
Increased food prices could lead to increased poverty and unrest.
Even, UN call …

Solving the GPS gap
Antonio Angrisano, Armando Pacifico, Mario Vultaggio
Government policy, applied research, commercialization…
Dr. Robert A. Ryerson, Chanchai Peanvijarnpong
VLBI geodetic precision with different models
Erhu WEI, Jingnan LIU, Peijing PAN
Going deeper undergroundl
Marc Hobell, Jim Stancliffe

Beneath our feet in the UK lies a vast labyrinth of millions of kilometres of buried pipes and cables, delivering key products and services essential to our social and economic well-being. These networks of buried assets need repair and maintenance, and the growing demands of the UK economy mean that in years to come the networks will continue to grow significantly, as will the amount of traffic on the streets under which many of these assets lie.
There are now more companies involved in digging holes across the UK than ever before. Latest estimates put this figure at around 4 million holes dug by utility companies annually, and this excludes any excavations made as part of construction projects and works away from the street. Every time a hole is dug it impacts on traffic and the local environment. Often, holes turn out to be ‘dry’ – inaccurate information means that assets thought to be there cannot be found.

Says, lisa Campbell, Vice President, Geospatial Solutions, Autodesk Inc

 
Tell us about autodesk’s geospatial solutions
Autodesk provide solutions to design, …

Galileo and GPS systems to work together

The UK government has published the agreement between it and fellow European governments, and the USA, over the promotion, provision and use of the Galileo and GPS systems.

After many years of wrangling, the Galileo project was finally given the go-ahead by the European Union back in December 2007. Galileo is intended to be an independent alternative to America’s GPS. As recently as the year 2000, the US only provided limited access to GPS to the general public.

Both the United States and the EU signed an agreement way back in June 2004 that GPS and Galileo signals would be interoperable, but it has taken several years for the agreement to be approved by member states. www.techworld.com