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Mar 2006 | Comments Off on GAGAN update

GAGAN is an Indian Space Based Augmentation System (SBAS). Airports Authority of India (AAI) and Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to provide the seamless navigation service for all the phases of fl ight over Indian airspace jointly undertake this project. The AAI’s efforts towards implementation of operational SBAS can be viewed as the first step towards introduction of modern CNS/ATM system over Indian airspace…

Mar 2006 | Comments Off on What does our world really look like?
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Usually, us human beings tend to cumulate in urban centres, and if we go places, then to those which we consider as worthwhile a visit, such as the Tower of Pisa or Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park. Due to our unbalanced focus on certain areas, we have a distorted image of our world – much more jam-packed of houses, roads and people than it actually is…

Mar 2006 | Comments Off on Who owns the information?

 
 
 

 

Own, control, use and misuse.
That’s the story about information.
When search engines like Google, Yahoo and Micorsoft open new vistas …

Mar 2006 | Comments Off on Vol II, Issue 3, March 2006
May issue

What does our world really look like? RAINER MAUTZ
Gagan update ARJUN SINGH
Indian prelude to British cadastral and revenue maps B ARUNACHALAM
Developing national SDI platform for Greece S ALEXIADOU AND A RAJABIFARD
Spatial and dynamic modeling techniques
NOVALINE JACOB AND KRISHNAN R
National GPS programme for earthquake hazard assessme MANORANJAN MOHANTY

Mar 2006 | Comments Off on GML prototype tested for interoperability

 
 

 
PS ACHARYA, RN NANDA AND A SINDAL
The experiment holds the key to addressing the problem of incompatibility between different spatial data sets held by various national mapping agencies
A sample data set from Survey of India (SoI)’s conventional digital topographic data has been converted to Open Geo-spatial Consortium (OGC)’s Geography Markup Language (GML) …

Mar 2006 | Comments Off on MARK YOUR CALENDAR

April 2006

 

National Workshop on Role of Geodesy in Surveying Practices

 

10 – 11 April, 2006, Geodetic & Research

 

Branch, Survey of India, Dehradun

 

gandrb@vsnl.net

 

IEEE/ION PLANS 2006

 

25- 27 April, San Diego, …

Mar 2006 | Comments Off on “Understand. Then implement.”
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says Dr Mahesh Chandra, Managing Director, National …

Mar 2006 | Comments Off on “The biggest GPS market in Japan is car navigation”
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says Dr Hiroshi Nishiguchi, Secretary General, Japan …

Feb 2006 | No Comment

Good Coordinates
-Muneendra Kumar
Driver assistance and awareness applications
-Dr Faroog Ibrahim
A Roadmap for Integrated Rural Development
-Hee Sung Kim, Hyung Keun Lee, Young Jun Lee
Joint Australian engineering satellite (JAESat)
-Cameron Boyd, Jan A King, Werner Enderle

Feb 2006 | No Comment

JAESat is an Australian joint micro-satellite project between Queensland University of Technology, Australian Space Research Institute and other national and international partners, i.e. Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Satellite Systems, Kayser-Threde GmbH, Aerospace Concepts, Auspace to name some of them