Redefnition of Indian Geodetic datums – horizontal and vertical
BRIG (DR) B NAGARAJAN AND R K SAWHNEY
Building sustainable cities using enterprise GIS
MAYOR JEREMY HARRIS RET
TEC values estimation over a permanent GPS station
DR CHRISTOS PIKRIDAS AND MILTIADIS CHATZINIKOS
Mangrove habitat dynamics
S K SINGH

April 2007

63rd Annual Meeting, Featuring New Bio Navigation Workshops

April 23-25, 2007, Cambridge, MA

www.ion.org

2nd National GIS Symposium in Saudi Arabia

23-25April, 2007 Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia

info@saudigis.org

http://www.saudigis.org/

May 2007

TimeNav’07 – ENC-GNSS 07

29 May – 1 June 2007

Geneva International Conference Center,Switzerland

Spatial Sciences Institute Biennial International Conference

14-18 May, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

www.ssc2007.com

Intergraph 2007

21-24 May, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

http://www.intergraph2007.com

International Conference on Integrated …

Nokia N95 smartphone with GPS capabilities starts shipping
Nokia N95 has started shipping in key European, Asian and Middle Eastern markets. The phone is an all-in-one multimedia computer with a unique 2-way slide design, integrated GPS functionality and many other features. www.nokia.com

New Magellan ProMark™3 RTK alters the RTK Landscape
Magellan has announced the introduction of its ProMark3 RTK, designed to provide surveyors with centimeter accuracy in a realtime solution and complete postprocessing and mapping capabilities. It operates in two modes; base + rover and rover only. The rover can be connected to a real-time network through a GPRSenabled cell phone using NTRIP and direct IP. The base + rover, employs plug-and-play spread-spectrum radio solution that does not require a license or separate con? guration integrated with ProMark3 RTK. cgeffroy@magellangps.com

Sustainability is the key issue in forest management, be it India, or any other part of the globe. Unfortunately, so far, no scientifi cally sound and operational defi nition of Sustainability has been evolved for universal application in forest management. Nevertheless, it may be said on an empirical basis that sustainable forest management lies in attaining three basic goals: fi rst, maintaining the stability of the physical environment, secondly, maintaining, and if necessary increasing, the biological productivity of the resource, and thirdly, establishing equity in distribution of qualitative and quantitative benefi ts generated by the resource in the society dependent on it. The goals are to be attained not at any chosen point of time, but in perpetuity. Sustainable forest management is a multidimensional process. The major dimensions of the process are: ecological, silvicultural, technical (including the disciplines of genetics and biotechnology), socio-economic, and institutional. All the dimensions are equally important and neglect of any can mar the Sustainability of the process.

There is news.
That too a good one.
Reportedly, all 4,800 maps of the Survey of India will be available in public domain.
As many as 2,900 are of open series.
It would happen by March end.
The commitment(!) comes from the Minister himself. The Minister of Science and Technology, Government of India.
It looks like actualization …

Galileo – the European Programme for Global Navigation Services for civil purposes is an initiative led by European Union. We provide regular updates to our readers on the Galileo programme.

Abu Dhabi to introduce new road maintenance system
Abu Dhabi is preparing a unique Road and Bridge Asset Management System. The system would establish a satellite-aided geographical database by using the GPS. It will also feature an e-archives for road executive designs and an e-connection with other working systems. The system seeks to standardize the methods and costs of maintenance work of the 20, 000- km road network and 90 bridges in the emirates, according to an official at department for Municipalities and Agriculture. www.khaleejtimes.com

Geospatial Intelligence Standards: Enabling a Common Vision
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has issued a new document that provides guidance and direction to develop an overall baseline for common geospatial standards used to share, manipulate, and exploit digital geospatial data. The document, “Geospatial Intelligence Standards: Enabling a Common Vision,” outlines the standards that will be used in the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG). The NSG is the combination of technology, policies, capabilities, doctrine, activities, people, data and communities necessary to produce geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in an integrated multi-intelligence, multidomain environment. www.nga.mil

Second ESRI Asia-Pacific User Conference, 18-19 January, 2007, New Delhi, India

The Second ESRI Asia-Pacific User Conference under the theme of “GIS for economic development” was held at Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi, India on January 18-19. Organized by ESRI India, the event witnessed participation from more than 900 …