DHS publishes free resources to protect critical infrastructure from GPS spoofing
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced today it has published the Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Integrity Library and Epsilon Algorithm Suite to protect against Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) spoofing, or deceiving a Global Positioning System (GPS) device …
Satellite imagery reveals three decades of coastal change
The evolution of Australia’s coastlines can now be seen in unprecedented scale and detail, via a new tool developed by Geoscience Australia’s Digital Earth Australia (DEA) program.
Using satellite imagery collected since 1988, DEA Coastlines maps annual changes to Australia’s coastlines to highlight long-term trends in coastal erosion and …
ICAO Council makes progress on new RPAS standards
During its ongoing 222nd Session, the ICAO Council has adopted new and amended Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) driving important progress on the international safety and interoperability of remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS).
The new provisions will become effective on 12 July 2021, and applicable as of 26 November …
The USA has issued the Memorandum on Space Policy Directive 7 on January 15, 2021. This Space Policy Directive establishes implementation actions and guidance for United States space-based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) programs and activities for United States national and homeland security, civil, commercial, and scientific purposes
This policy complements the guidance set forth in …
The Department of Space, Government of India has the primary responsibility of promoting the development of space science, technology and applications towards achieving self-reliance and facilitating in all round development of the nation. The report narrates all the major activities of the department including navigation, earth observation and Gaganyaan
Department Of Space (DOS), Government of India …
Low-hanging fruit refers to the obvious and easy things you do to achieve success or make progress toward a goal. It’s the easy stuff. It’s the things that always work
Brent Jones, PE, PLS
Esri, USA
Why is this a problem?
We all want the easy way to get the job done, but it’s a problem because disruption sniffs …
In this paper, we present the main features of a new class of emerging DBMSs, namely NoSQL and NewSQL, from the data management perspective with a particular focus on distributed computing and share-nothing architecture
Zdravko Galic
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Applied Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia. GeoSpatial Systems Consulting, Vienna, Austria
Abstract
For over four …
Volume XVII, Issue 7, July 2021
Mapping of the Mount Everest – An awe inspiring history!
Khimlal Gautam
Blockchain land registry best practices
Lee Bratcher and Robert Sullivan
How one million people in India’s Odisha slums gain land rights
Brent Jones
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A new race in space.
First Richard Branson in Virgin Galactic
then Jeff Bezos in Blue Origin
and Elon Musk in SpaceX to follow.
Space tourism is a new ‘buzz’
Appears to satisfy the urges of the mighty and wealthy.
It also opens up new avenues of desires and damages,
Given the human record of …
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