Volume XVII, Issue 2, February 2021

A Power-Law-based approach to mapping COVID-19 cases in the United States

Bin Jiang and Chris de Rijke

Coverage and optimal visibility-based navigation using visibility analysis from geospatial data

Oren Gal and Yerach Doytsher

Lessons learned from the modernization of the Greek cadastre – Principles and progress

Aristea Ioannidi and Maria Fouskolagoudaki

Guidelines for acquiring and producing …

 
‘What is readily available globally does not need to be regulated’,
So says, the ‘Guidelines for acquiring and producing Geospatial Data and Geospatial Data Services including Maps’ released by the Government of India on Feb 15, 2021.
This has been said many times for the last so many years,
By many who relentlessly kept advocating and demanding
To unleash …

Tallysman introduces the HC843 and HC843E lightweight dual-band GNSS
Tallysman® Wireless Inc. announced the addition of two new models to its industry-leading line of Helical antennas.
The key feature of the HC843 and HC843E is their two-mode operation. The first mode is dual-frequency GNSS and the second is passive Iridium™ (1616.0 – 1626.5 MHz), which …

Hiber successfully launches second generation satellite
Hiber, the European satellite IoT company, recently launched Hiber Four satellite in space, via SpaceX’s first rideshare mission of 2021 – Transporter-1. It is a second generation satellite developed and assembled by Hiber’s engineers in its Amsterdam office. Hiber Four, and its sister satellite Hiber Three (launching in March), …

Technology demonstrator microsatellite for Norway
The Norwegian Space Agency (NOSA) has awarded Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) of Canada a contract to develop the NorSat Technology Demonstrator (TD) microsatellite. With a primary mission of testing out new technologies in space, NorSat-TD will validate payloads and concepts from Norway, the Netherlands, France and Italy.
SFL, which developed …

Global Mapper v22.1
Blue Marble Geographics has released version 22.1 of Global Mapper. The version 22.1 release includes several enhancements to the software’s 3D Viewer including, a new ‘Save 3D Views’ function and 3D View navigation tools to target the camera on specific features and lock the pivot axis around a feature of interest. The …

NASA advancing GNSS capabilities
NASA is developing capabilities that will allow missions at high altitudes to take advantage of signals from Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) constellations — like GPS commonly used in the U.S. These signals — used on Earth for navigation and critical timing applications — could provide NASA’s Artemis missions to the Moon …

Location information is an integral part of the modern digital ecosystem and critical for unlocking economic, social and environmental opportunities for sustainable growth and development of the country…

The development of the modern Greek cadaster has been a long standing objective for every Greek government since the early 19th century in order to replace the existing oldfashioned individual based system…

Modern cities and urban environments are becoming denser more heavily populated and are still rapidly growing, including new infrastructures, markets, banks, transportation, etc. In the last two decades, more and more cities and mega-cities have started using multi-camera networks in order to face this challenge.