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 …

Navigare Necesse Est is the Latin tag that underpins the basic necessity of all forms of life to fi nd their way to survive and prosper. Today’s new world of ubiquitous electronic navigation supremely illustrates that dictum. Says Dick Smith, newly elected President of the International Association of Institutes of Navigation (IAIN)

 
Would you …

Jack Dangermond shares his observations with Coordinates

 
Challenges that Coordinates should focus on

A big challenge is integrating the surveying profession with the GIS profession. There’s a growing tension between them. One of the bridges that I want to accomplish this year is integrating the technology so the surveyors can have tools within …

Prof Dr Güenter W Hein, Director of the Institute of Geodesy and Navigation, University FAF, Munich, on GNSS trends, applications and challenges

 
Please tell us about the focus of research at your Institute.
The Institute of Geodesy and Navigation of the University FAF Munich with presently more than 30 research associates from various …

Hemisphere GPS Innovation Wins FinOvation Award
Hemisphere GPS has announced that the Outback S2 GPS guidance system has won a FinOvation Award by Farm Industry News. The Award recognizes the most innovative new products published in Farm Industry News during the past year. The guidance system combines Crescent® GPS Technology with a simple guidance interface. When combined with Outback eDrive and the new BaseLineHD, it provides the most affordable one-inch pass-to-pass automated steering system available.
Hemisphere GPS has also introduced centimeter-level accuracy through a Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) application for professionals working in precision agriculture, marine navigation, surveying and others. It also provides the same accuracy as dual-frequency RTK systems but at a fraction of the cost. www.hemispheregps.com

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 …

Rapid alignment process for tactical grade IMU
YUN-WEN HUANG, YU-SHENG HUANG AND KAIWEI CHIANG
The ignored dimension
JB LAL
Trends in GNSS/INS integrated navigation
technology
HE XIAOFENG, HU XIAOPING, WU MEIPING
Beyond mapping
BRIG PN KOUL