Volume XVII, Issue 12, December 2021

How to conceptualize a PPP for land administration services

Tony Burns, Fletcher Wright, Kate Fairlie and Kate Rickersey

Exploring our physical world

Volker Janssen

Satellite based mapping of air pollution using Google Earth Engine for Himachal Pradesh, India

Shashi Shekhar

My Coordinates

EDITORIAL

Conference

Mongolia workshop on the applications of global navigation satellite systems

News

INDUSTRY | GNSS | GIS …

February 2022

Geo Week

6-8 February, 2022 Denver, CO, USA

www.geo-week.com

DGI Geospatial Intelligence for National Security 2022

London on 08-09 February 2022

https://dgi.wbresearch.com

March 2022

Munich Satellite Navigation Summit 2022

7-9 March Munich, Germany

munich-satellitenavigation- summit.org

IGRSM 2022

8-9 March Virtual Conference Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

https://www.igrsm.org

The 10th Land Administration Domain Model Workshop

31 March – 2 April 2022 Dubrovnik, Croatia

http://isoladm.org/LADM2022Workshop

October 2022

Intergeo Hybrid

18-20 October 2022 Essen, Germany

www.intergeo.de

November 2022

Trimble Dimensions+

7-9 …

With the advent of the vaccines,
Year 2021 was anticipated as a year of recovery.
However, earlier this year it was the ferocious Delta variant of Covid-19,
That devastated the millions in many of the countries,
And now it is the Omicron variant wreaking havoc
Though the world is better equipped to deal with the …

ASPAARO established
Northrop Grumman Corporation and Airbus Defence and Space, together with seven industrial players, have established ASPAARO, the Atlantic Strategic Partnership for Advanced All-domain Resilient Operations. ASPAARO will bid to undertake the Risk Reduction and Feasibility Studies (RRFS) for the NATO Support and Procurement Agency as part of the Alliance Future Surveillance and Control (AFSC) …

PLI of Rs. 120 crore is provided for Indian manufacturers of drone and drone components
The Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for drones and drone components has been notified on Sept. 30, 2021 to push the production of drones.
The details of this scheme are as follows:
i. An incentive of INR 120 crore (approximately $16 million) has been …

Planet to acquire VanderSat
Planet is set to acquire VanderSat, a leading provider of advanced earth data and analytics. Vandersat’s products help customers better measure and understand water management and crop health in major markets. Planet intends to leverage VanderSat’s technologies and products in further pursuit of bringing to market next-generation solutions that combine the best …

GIOVE-A, Galileo Pathfinder satellite, de-commissioned
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has successfully de-commissioned GIOVE-A, the pathfinder satellite for Europe’s Galileo constellation, after 16 years of operations in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). The decision to decommission the satellite was made due to the obsolescence in computing systems required for the operation of GIOVE-A, and de-commissioning of the …

Bell and Esri Canada deliver Integrated Smart City Ecosystem
Bell and Esri will create the Bell Integrated Smart City Ecosystem. This integrated solution will combine Bell’s award-winning 5G network and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions with Esri’s realtime analytics and location intelligence capabilities to help cities of all sizes across Canada become connected communities.
The Bell Integrated …

Introduction
1. Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is a general term describing any satellite constellation that provides positioning, navigation and timing services on a global and regional basis and whose data are used for a broad range of applications. Current GNSS include the following global and regional constellations: the Global Positioning System (GPS) of the …

It has emerged that satellite retrieved mean pollutant concentration recorded relatively lower concentration during the year 2020 in comparision to 2019 and 2021 indicating the impact of lockdown due to Covid 19 pandemic

Shashi Shekhar

Scientific Officer, Himachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board, Shimla, India

Abstract
The paper aims to investigate the spatiotemporal pattern of three types of air …