State-of-art regional geodesy centre on the cards at MNNIT
A state-of-the-art Regional Geodesy Centre (RGC) would soon be set up at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT), Prayagraj. Working in close coordination with the countryʼs first National Geodesy Centre (NGC) functioning in Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kanpur, the regional centre would undertake studies in …

Skyline Nav AI, Draper win contract
The project is led by Skyline Nav AI, which has secured a contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to provide GPS-independent localization capability for the ATAK platform. Draper will integrate Skyline’s application into ATAK’s front-end. It is currently on contract with the U.S. Department of Defense …

Drone Festival – Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated Drone Festival – Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022 on May 27, 2022. He also interacted with Kisan drone pilots, witnessed open-air drone demonstrations and interacted with startups in the drone exhibition centre. Several union ministers, leaders and entrepreneurs of drone industry were among …

Hitachi launches Lumada Inspection Insights
Hitachi, Ltd. has launched Lumada Inspection Insights, its end-to-end portfolio of digital solutions for the inspection, monitoring, and optimization of critical assets. It enables customers to automate asset inspection, support sustainability goals, improve physical security, and reduce risks and impacts related to storms or fires by using powerful artificial intelligence …

Enhanced operations in Australia by Satellogic
Satellogic Inc has announced that it is enhancing its operations in the Australian market to strengthen its regional customer relationships and provide local support for a growing APAC space economy. It currently operates 22 high-resolution satellites and expects to grow its constellation to 34 satellites by Q1 2023. By 2025, …

Chinese-made BeiDou satellite system output value hits new record
The output value of China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) reached a new high of 469 billion yuan ($69 billion) in 2021, up 16.29 percent year on year, according to a white paper recently released.
The white paper, issued by the Global Navigation Satellite System …

Forest Survey of India says forest cover estimate is done with field data tallied with Satellitebased Interpretation
Amid criticism from experts of its methodology to map forest cover in the country, the Forest Survey of India (FSI) has said that the forest cover is estimated from the field inventory data, which corroborate the figures obtained from …

The aim of this research is to produce a new and updated map Lagos Island Local Government Area, Nigeria and document changes that have occurred over time

Leonard Michael Onyinyechi Aminigbo

Department of Geography and Environmental Management, Rivers State University, Portharcourt, Nigeria

Abstract
The scope of the research work comprised the planning and preliminary data requirement analyses, acquisition of …

The results of the study conducted in Perth, Australia show distinct advantages of using spatial statistics at the site investigation scale, and for measuring multiple elements not just potential contaminants

Andrew W. Rate

School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Australia

Abstract
Public recreation areas in cities may be constructed on land which has been contaminated …

The expected results will be a contribution to the assessment of natural risk and seismic hazard in the study area and will have a positive impact for the sustainable development of the region

Nikolay Dimitrov

Assoc Professor, Head of Department Geodesy, National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria

Introduction
The study of recent crustal …