Volume XVIII, Issue 8, August 2022

Laser scanning in archaeology and cultural heritage documentation

Hina Pande, Poonam Seth Tiwari
and Shefali Agarwal

NRTK observations and their uncertainties in a modern datum

Tom Bernstein and Volker Janssen

New insights into large tropical tree mass and structure from direct harvest and terrestrial lidar

Andrew Burt, Matheus Boni Vicari, Antonio C L da Costa, …

Recently, an Immarsat led team of companies in the UK
Began the broadcasting satellite navigation signal.
This was done in coordination with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Union Space Programme Agency (EUSPA).
And was intended to explore the national capability in resilient PNT.
The …

September 2022

International Symposium of Commission 4: Positioning and Applications

5 to 8 September 2022

www.iag-commission4-symposium2022.net

15th Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT)

5-9 Sep 2022 Kobe, Japan

cosit2022.iniad.org

Commercial UAV Expo Americas

6-8 September 2022 Las Vegas, USA

www.expouav.com

17th Symposium on Location Based Services (LBS2022)

12-14 Sep 2022 Munich, Germany

lbsconference.org

18th International Conference on Geoinformation and Cartography

14-16 Sep 2022 Zagreb, Croatia

www.kartografija.hr

EuroCarto 2022

19-21 Sep Vienna, Austria

www.eurocarto2022.org

ION …

Northrop Grumman and Airbus MOU
Northrop Grumman and Airbus have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to address the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD) military satellite communication system requirements as an integrated team. The team will work together to address future aspects of the SKYNET program ensuring that …

Baidu unveils next-gen autonomous vehicle
Baidu, Inc. has unveiled its nextgeneration fully autonomous vehicle (AV) Apollo RT6, an all-electric, productionready model with a detachable steering wheel. It will be put into operation in China in 2023 on Apollo Go, Baidu’s autonomous ride-hailing service.
Apollo RT6 integrates Baidu’s most advanced …

Enhancing Living Atlas of the world
Maxar Technologies has announced that Esri, will enhance the World Imagery layer with higher resolution Maxar Vivid basemaps in the Living Atlas.
Esri will use Maxar’s Vivid basemaps to upgrade nearly half of the global landmass in Living Atlas from 1.2 m resolution to …

Consortium to develop future European land combat capabilities
Already member of the Consortium and part of the FAMOUS effort, Arquus has announced that it has been selected as a part of FAMOUS2, alongside coordinator Patria from Finland, fellow French major Defense company and partner Nexter, as well as …

Rwanda joins ADB supported remote data collection initiative
Rwanda has embraced the Remote Appraisal, Supervision, Monitoring and Evaluation (RASME) initiative, a tool that enhances project-related data collection in remote areas. It is the first East African country to do so and the seventh overall in the continent.
The …

In this paper, we present, to our knowledge, the first validation of Lidar-derived AGB estimates of tropical trees using reference values obtained entirely from direct measurement

Andrew Burt

Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK

Matheus Boni Vicari

Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK

Antonio C. L. da Costa

Instituto de Geosciências, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil

Ingrid …

Addressing national datum modernisation, this paper presents a new approach to include static Network Real-Time Kinematic (NRTK) observations and their uncertainties in the survey control network of New South Wales (NSW), Australia.

Tom Bernstein

Senior Technical Surveyor in the Metropolitan Operations & Preservation of Survey Infrastructure team at DCS Spatial Services, NSW Department of Customer Service, in …