USS Cape St. George is first ship using digital mapping system
Sailors on the USS Cape St. George is the first in the U.S. Navy fleet to switch from paper maps to a new digital charting system, linked to GPS and instant updates on ocean obstructions. The Navy, which has been working on the new technology since 1998, plans to install and use the new digital maps on the entire flee by 2009.
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MapInfo Delivers OGC Compliance
MapInfo Corporation the announced that its MapXtreme® family of products has been certified as fully compliant with the Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) OpenGIS® WMS Specifi cations.
13,000 users attend ESRI’s 25th Annual User Conference
With nearly 13,000 users attending from more than 135 …
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Was early warning of Sumatra earthquake possible? SHUNJI MURAI AND HARUMI ARAKI
GAGAN – A visionary approach ARJUN SINGH
Using positional and navigational technologies in Australia ALLAN K BARNES
The national map policy: Hope vs Hype MUNEENDRA KUMAR, JG KRISHNAYYA, AJAY LABAKARE AND NK AGRAWAL
Scalable GPS infrastructure NATHAN PUGH
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Geodesy is science of the measurement and mapping of the earth’s surface. Satellite Geodesy in an orderly intensive manner started with the launch of the first artificial satellite SPUTNIK in October 1957. By the year 1964, many basic geodetic problems …
We were taken aback.
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