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 …

This paper highlights amusing research related to the animal kingdom, improving our understanding of animal behaviour, ecology and conservation, often by employing spatial tools and innovative approaches to data collection and analysis.
Volker Janssen
Publications Officer, Association of Public Authority Surveyors (APAS), New South Wales, Australia
This is the fourth in a series of papers celebrating some of …

Maj Gen (Dr) B Nagarajan
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Kanpur, India
Why is geodesy an indispensable science? How it has evolved over the years?
Geodesy is the science of accurately measuring and understanding the three fundamental properties of the Earth: its geometric shape, its orientation in space, and its gravity field. …

Volume XVII, Issue 10, October 2021
Modernization of land administration services in Uganda
Richard Oput
COVID-19 and the role of digital technology based on the ten global trends identified by the World Economic Forum
Rishiraj Dutta
Humorous science: Vampires and zombies
Volker Janssen
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In this divided world, emerges an additional fault line
Vaccinated vs. un-vaccinated.
If in high-income countries around 60% have been vaccinated with at least one dose, the percentage remains abysmally low at around 3% in low-income countries.
The priority to vaccinate ones own first is understandable and justifiable to some extent,
But the concerns towards …