IFEN to upgrade Galileo open air test bed signals
The German Aerospace Center has contracted with IFEN GmbH for the signal upgrade of the Galileo Test and Development Environment (GATE), per the latest versions of the European Space Agency’s Galileo Signal-in-Space Interface Control Document (ICD) and the GNSS Supervisory Authority Public Galileo Open Service ICD. After completion of the signal upgrade at the end of 2009, the GATE test infrastructure will be capable of transmitting the new CBOC signal structure on the Galileo E1 frequency band and a broader bandwidth of 92.07 MHz on the E5 frequency band, according to IFEN. www.ifen.com

MapMart unveils one-stop portal
IntraSearch Inc. unveiled a new interface on its MapMart online mapping portal where satellite imagery customers can search, preview and order high-resolution data from DigitalGlobe, GeoEye, SPOT and KOMPSAT. www.mapmart.com

Bhubaneswar to have GIS-based holdings’ assessment
Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), Orissa, India is putting in place a GIS-based system which will create maps for the individual properties in the Capital. www.orissa.gov.in/ourbmc/

Over the last few years we have seen significant, global, often disruptive, change in the technological and social environment within which National Mapping Organisations (NMOs) operate. These changes will continue to have profound effects on both: the way geographic information (GI) is captured, managed, traded and used; and the role and function of national mapping agencies…

The dangers of GPS/GNS
Börje Forssell
Challenges before National Mapping Organisations
Vanessa Lawrence CB, P Nag, Lam Joon Khoi
Quality evaluation of NRTK correction transmission
Lei Yang, Chris Hill, Xiaolin Meng and Jose Aponte
Accuracy performance of hand-held GPS
Abdullah S Alsalman and Abdullah E Ali
Geomatics in Pakistan
A W Mir

A group of Japanese professionals and lawyers have asked Google to
stop providing the detailed street level images of Japanese cities.
Their concern is that it violates privacy rights.
The ‘owners of the technology’ tend to demonstrate the extent
to which the technology can go and what …

MetaCarta’s LBS for 2012 Olympics
MetaCarta, Inc., and the British Transport Police (BTP) shall provide location based situational awareness for the 2012 Olympics. BTP will use MetaCarta geographic search and referencing solutions to geo-enable and consolidate information from multiple data sources by geographic location and display it in MapView, BTP’s intranet map-based visualisation tool. www.metacarta.com

Satellite-based sprinkler system
Faced with historic droughts, the governments of Georgia, California and Idaho are turning to GIS maps and satellite-based computerised sprinklers for drought recovery and to prepare for a future of less water. The sprinkler has a satellite that tracks weather patterns and automatically adjusts water schedules based on an environment’s needs. www.governmentnews.com.au

February 2009

3rd GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium

4-6 February Kyoto,Japan

geoss-ap3@restec.or.jp

http://www.prime-intl.co.jp/geoss/

Galileo Open SErvice

12 February, …

Geomatics is the art and science of measurements on the surface of earth including what is below the earth and in the oceans. This is the simplest form of definition; more exact and elaborate definition has been produced by FIG¹. In other simple words Geomatics is the new terminology for the centuries old profession of Surveying and Mapping…