Virtual Surveyor introduces Curb & Gutter Mapping
Virtual Surveyor has introduced Curb & Gutter mapping functionality in Version 7.6 of its popular drone surveying software. The new capability enables surveyors to create a lightweight CAD model of curbs and gutters along the edges of streets and parking lots from standard orthophotos and elevation models captured …

Integrated public transport platform for African megacities
Route Masters, based at the European Space Agency BIC UK in Harwell in Oxfordshire, has signed up to the national SPRINT business support programme to develop an innovative transport management solution for African cities. Funding from SPRINT will enable Route Masters to collaborate with the University of Leicester …

Use Esri’s Collector for ArcGIS and Survey123 concurrently
Eos Positioning Systems, Inc has released capability in its Eos Tools Pro apps (iOS, Android, Windows) that allows Collector for ArcGIS and Survey123 to run concurrently, allowing the user to dynamically switch between the two apps in the field. “Without this capability, users could not run two …

Smallest methane emission ever detected from space
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL), a developer of 53 distinct microspace missions, has announced the successful measurement of atmospheric methane by the GHGSat-C1 greenhouse gas monitoring microsatellite that utilizes a NEMO platform developed by SFL. The methane emission from a source on the Earth’s surface is the smallest ever …

GSA releases the 3rd GNSS user technology report
The European GNSS Agency (GSA) has just released its latest GNSS User Technology Report, providing a comprehensive analysis of latest GNSS trends and developments. With contributions from leading GNSS receiver and chipset manufacturers, the report serves as a valuable tool to support planning and decision-making with regards …

The Master Plan of Delhi-2021 (MPD- 2021) has envisaged a paradigm shift in land assembly, and stipulates optimum use of land and land pooling policy for the new sub-cities. It involves the preparation of land pooling and land use plans, physical and social infrastructure…

The entire social media, intelligentsia, the new world and technical journals are flooded with data and information on Covid-19 ever since the onslaught of the Pandemic, early this year. All commotion, beginning from the unprecedented lockdowns, strict protocols demanding social distancing…

Over the past 10 years, the Moscow University of Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK) has been conducting a pedagogical experiment in teaching students of cartography and geodesy to program in C++ using a specifically developed training course…

In the first phase of the Covid-19 crisis, many countries of the European Union (EU) introduced severe measures limiting the free movement of persons and goods across borders. The objective of these measures was the contention of the spreading of the virus…

Volume XVI, Issue 10, October 2020

Surveying education in the time of Covid

Craig Roberts

Embrace the current scenario as a motivator, rather as a temporary nuisance

Robert William Kingdon

Emerging GIS trends and forecasting

Ashwani Rawat

The land reforms in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Timothée Rakundo and David Betge

The cost-effectiveness of controlling dengue in Indonesia

Oliver J Brady, Dinar D Kharisma, Nandyan …