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, …
says Dr Hiroshi Nishiguchi, Secretary General, Japan …
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
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
Modern technologies should appropriately be blended with government developmental programmes.India is an agrarian country with about 72 per cent (about 80 Crores) of its population in about 5,75,936 villages, the villages are inhibited by the rural poor with agriculture as their predominant occupation.They are largely small and marginal farmers, agricultural labourers, artisansand scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. A large number of rural people (about 30 crore) are still living below the poverty line and often face thebasic problem of survival, viz., jobs, poverty, hunger, shelter, ill-health and disease.
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