For the civilian use of drones, India has the guidelines in place.
In March 2021, the Ministry of Civil Aviation notified the Unmanned Aircraft System Rules.
Recently, the government has invited bids to use drones for the delivery of Covid-19 vaccines and other medicines for remote areas.
Telangana state government in India engages with Flipkart …

Eos Positioning Systems announces the Eos Bridge
Eos Positioning Systems have released a new product called the Eos Bridge™. The Eos Bridge™ enables almost any instrument to become iOS Bluetooth compatible. It is a small, pocket-sized device that connects to instruments via Bluetooth Classic or serial port, and transmits data from them to any Apple …

‘Giant Step for Urban Drone Environments’
The Hera Drone Hub has announced Altitude Angel, UTM (unifi ed traffic management, or U-Space) technology provider, is to provide UTM through its GuardianUTM Enterprise platform to the world’s first urban test centre in a CTR.
Spanish city of Zaragoza have become the first European city to authorise drone …

Real-time, location-based innovation for TCS DigiFleet
HERE Technologies has partnered with Tata Consultancy Services(TCS) to bring real-time location-based services and analytics to its IoT-enabled SaaS suite, TCS DigiFleet, which leverages IoT, AI, and machine learning to address global logistics challenges. Powered by the HERE location platform, the enhanced fleet and freight management solution will enable …

Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio win contract for Sicral 3
Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), and Telespazio, the joint venture between Leonardo (67%) and Thales (33%), have signed a contract with the Italian Ministry of Defense, represented by TELEDIFE / Secretariat General of Defense, for the development of …

IMCA publishes guidelines on the use of GNSS for tide calculations
The International Marine Contractors Association’s (IMCA) newly published ‘Guidelines on the use of GNSS for tide calculations’ (IMCA S 027) provides an overview of how Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) can assist in more accurate real-time direct measurement of tidal changes.
As Nick Hough, …

National security missions for the Australian DoD supported by Maxar
Maxar Technologies has delivered 3D data products and high-resolution satellite imagery to the Australian Department of Defence under recent multi-million-dollar contracts.
Maxar’s 3D data suite enhances situational awareness and decision-making for military applications. The 3D data suite includes a 3D Surface Model, which provides a high-fidelity, positionally …

From times immemorial, the cities, agriculture and culture evolved along the rivers. Among various Delhi’s, Shahjahanabad (17th Century), was built along the river Yamuna, a 1370 km long river emanating from the Himalayas and merging into the River Ganga at Prayag. However, with indiscriminate urbanisation River Yamuna in Delhi…

The objective of this article is to share the knowledge of alternative way of geoid determination with incorporating a high resolution GGM, terrain and GPS/levelling data

Dr H M I Prasanna

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, P.O. Box 02, Belihuloya, 70140, Sri Lanka

Development of GGMs
With the advent of new gravity dedicated satellite …

The paper describes a method for improving the coordinates of hydrological stations using the GNSS. Traditional methods of determining the coordinates of level posts are analyzed in this work. The requirements for the accuracy and installation of geodetic points of level posts are given. A scheme of the GNSS network of the coastal zone…