Another wave of Covid-19 sweeps Europe.
Russia and the UK face a surge,
The Netherlands heads for partial lockdown.
Austria restricts unvaccinated people.
Germany says national emergency.
Apparently in Europe ‘vaccine hesitancy’ overwhelms the ‘vaccine availability’.
The tyranny of virus continue to rage,
And the irony is that millions yet to get the first dose …

December 2021

SIRGAS2021 (virtual)

Nov 29 to Dec 1

www.sirgas.org/en/sirgassymposia/ symp_2021 www.geobusinessshow.com

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 …

NovAtel enhances the performance of the GAJT-710
NovAtel have announced an update to their GPS Anti-Jam Technology (GAJT) portfolio. As the leading provider of assured positioning, navigation and timing (APNT) products, it has introduced the new GAJT-710 product line that features several enhancements over the previous generation. The GAJT-710 product line is the next evolution of …

Ministry of Civil Aviation releases India’s airspace map for drone operations
The drone airspace map comes as a followthrough of the liberalized Drone Rules, 2021 released by the Central Government on 25 August 2021, the PLI scheme for drones released on 15 September 2021 and the Geospatial Data Guidelines issued on 15 Feb 2021. All …

Hancom Group to launch Sejong-1 satellite in 2022
In the first half of 2022, Hancom InSpace, an affiliate of Hancom Group, working in cooperation with Spire Global, will launch Korea’s first private satellite for Earth observation. With this event, Hancom Group will be the first non-governmental entity in South Korea to put into space a satellite …

Exploring England’s Hidden Archaeological Landscape
From Roman ruins to Cold War bunkers, England is home to countless hidden archaeological landscapes spanning thousands of years. An interactive map published by Historic England allows users to take “virtual flights” over these treasures of the past.
Researchers used more than 500,000 aerial photographs captured over the past 30 years, as …

Galileo satellites arrive at Europe’s Spaceport
Galileo atellites crossed the Atlantic from ESA’s ESTEC Test Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands to Cayenne in French Guiana. These are the first of the last batch of Galileo First Generation satellites, known as ‘Batch 3’, made up of 12 satellites in all. They are built by OHB SE …

At its November 2021 meeting, the ITU-R Study Group 4 considered and agreed on a package of three ITU-R Recommendations on radionavigation-satellite service (RNSS) systems as listed below.
Draft revision of Recommendation ITU-R M.1787-3 – Description of systems and networks in the radionavigation-satellite service (spaceto- Earth and space-to-space) and technical characteristics of transmitting space stations operating …

Spatial relations are explicitly modelled using spatial weighting matrices which can be applied to the dependent, independent or error terms in regressions

Eduardo Zegarra

Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), Lima, Perú

Abstract
The potential existence of spatial dependencies in land use and irrigation access in mountainous areas like the Peruvian Andes is a relevant issue for designing …

Cyclone ‘Tauktae’ hit the Gujarat coast, India on May 17, 2021, which affected the Gir National Park, a wildlife sanctuary for Asiatic lions. In order to do a quick assessment of the affected area, a suite of optical and microwave satellite datasets were analysed for pre and post cyclone periods

Dr C P Singh

Scientist/Engineer- SF Biological …