Traditionally GIS are considered to perform four basic functions on spatial data; input, storage, analysis and output. Of these, analysis has received least attention in commercial systems. Typically, a variety of map description and manipulation functions are defi ned by commercial vendors as being “Spatial analysis”, but they have little bearing on the use of this term in the Regional Science Community…
Spatial information plays important role in the development of the social, economic and environmental sectors. Some of the most remarkable applications for geographic information include: crime management, terrorism prevention, land and business development, flood mitigation, and disaster recovery (SDI Cookbook, 2004)…
Raja Todarmal was the minister for revenue in the court of Akbar. Building upon the foundations laid by Sher Shah, Todarmal introduced a system of land reforms, the essence of which was an assessment of the land revenue according to the extent of cultivation, the nature of the soil and the quality of the crops. He set up a scheme of laborious measurement, analysis of possibilities and calculation of prospects…
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…
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…
Own, control, use and misuse.
That’s the story about information.
When search engines like Google, Yahoo and Micorsoft open new vistas …
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
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) …
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, …
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