Arianespace to launch 8 new Galileo satellites
The European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) has chosen Arianespace to launch four new Galileo satellites. With this order, EUSPA takes over the role of placing launch services contracts for Galileo from ESA, which acted so far in the name and on behalf of the European …
Entry-level hydrographic survey software
EIVA’s new software variant NaviSuite Kuda Core provides advanced hydrographic survey software capabilities at an entry-level price. It is tailored to support hydrographic surveys with a single USV or small survey vessel using multi-beam echosounder (including backscatter), LiDAR and/or camera www.eiva.com
Collaborative project to advance Geo-data science skills
Fugro has joined …
The State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China published a white paper titled “China’s Space Program: A 2021 Perspective” . Here are some excerpts
In the next five years, China will integrate space science, technology and applications while pursuing the new development philosophy, building a new development model and meeting the requirements for …
The new city science aims not only to better understand geographic forms and processes but also – maybe more importantly – to make geographic space or the Earth’s surface living or more living
Bin Jiang
Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, Division of GIScience University of Gävle, SE- 801 76 Gävle, Sweden
Abstract
The third view of space …
Patrick Marvin Casiano
Director of Product Marketing, Rx Networks
There is still huge potential yet to be imagined. Let me replace Internet of Things (IoT) with Internet of Sensors. The old saying goes, ‘you cannot manage what you don’t measure’. The best parallel process I can think of is in the design of instrumentation and control systems …
Using cryptographic digital technology, a mobile application could be developed to eliminate property registry fraud even before it occurs
Jethro Jones
Medici Land Governance, Utah, USA
Abstract
Property registry fraud is a form of identity theft used to steal property by forging documents in the name of the property’s rightful owner. Property registry fraud impacts land rights across the …
An experimental course of C++ programming for surveyors and cartographers has been developed and implemented in the educational process at Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography. The C++ programming course focuses on the use of cartographic tasks and geodetic exercises to illustrate various programming language constructions. One of these training computer programs is discussed. …
Volume XVIII, Issue 1, January 2022
Let the Metaverse v/s Omniverse race begin!
Graeme Hooper
Technology trend in 3D mapping systems for mining
Giorgio Vassena
5 ways drones are improving workplace safety standards
James Rennie
High-accuracy augmented positioning services will become the new normal
Guy Buesnel
Geo-spatial big data analysis of Covid-19 spectrum envelope of first and second wave of the outbreak in …
James Webb Space Telescope
The telescope,
A joint international collaboration led by NASA in partnership with the European and Canadian space agencies,
Developed at a cost of $8.8 billion,
Was successfully launched on 25th December 2021.
Unlike its 30-year-old predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope, operated primarily at optical and ultraviolet wavelengths.
Webb mainly will view the …
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