The Institute of Navigation (ION) has announced that the ION GNSS+ 2020 will now have a virtual option for those unable to attend due to travel restrictions. With the goal of increasing global accessibility to everyone who wants to participate, the ION GNSS+ 2020 virtual option will mirror the technical program being presented live, September …
Volume XVI, Issue 6, June 2020
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Covid 19: GIS and Digital Urban Development
A K Jain
Land adminsitration and climate resiliency
Taga Raijeli Lewatu
Interviews:
Raphaël Siryani, Alexander Wiechert, P. S. Acharya
My Coordinates
EDITORIAL
His Coordinates
Raphaël Siryani, Alexander Wiechert, P. S. Acharya
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June 2020 to November 2020
News
INDUSTRY | GNSS | GIS | UAV | IMAGING | Tracking COVID | LBS
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The chaos
Covid-19 and the havoc thus created.
The world seems to be in fragments
Physically, socially, economically, psychologically…
Palpable uncertainty, uneasiness, anxiety, nervousness, … all over.
Different models are emerging to deal with the situation
Some celebrated, some pre-maturely celebrated and some condemned.
The approach at times is clueless, callous and even criminal.
There is …
July 2020
Esri User Conference
13 – 17 July San Diego, USA
www.esri.com
AEC Next Technology Expo + Conference
July 27-29, Chicago
www.aecnext.com
August 2020
XPONENTIAL 2020
August 9-12 Boston, USA
www.xponential.org
September 2020
Commercial UAV Expo Americas
September 15-17, Las Vegas,
www.expouav.com
7th International Conference on Geomatics and Geospatial Technology (GGT) 2020
21-24 September 2020 Royale Chulan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
http://ggt2020.uitm.edu
ION GNSS+ 2020
21-25, September St. Louis, Missouri, USA
www.ion.org
October 2020
INTERGEO 2020
13 – …
Wingcopter awarded
UAV startup Wingcopter is named as one of nine winners of Germany’s top global hackathon to kick-start humanitarian drone delivery. It partnered with UNICEF and the African Drone and Data Academy to develop a concept to deploy humanitarian drone delivery services. The goal will be to improve health supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. …
Dr Javad Ashjaee, founder of Javad GNSS dies
Founder of Javad GNSS, Dr. Javad Ashjaee, a GPS/GNSS pioneer and visionary, died on the morning of May 30, 2020, due to COVID-19 in Moscow, Russia.
Over the course of 37 years, Dr. Javad made an incredible and far-reaching impact in the GNSS community. He pioneered the world’s most …
iQSTEL’s adds GSM Network and GPS Tracking Support
iQSTEL Inc. has announced that its subsidiary IoT Labs MX has completed the circuit board upgrades for the new generation of the IoT (Internet of Things) Smart Gas field devices.
The original IoT Smart Gas platform was limited to the Sigfox communications infrastructure for IoT devices. Our in-house development …
Broadening perspective with the new UltraCam Osprey 4.1
Vexcel Imaging released the next generation UltraCam Osprey 4.1, a highly versatile large-format aerial camera for the simultaneous collection of photogrammetric-grade nadir imagery (PAN, RGB and NIR) and oblique images (RGB). Frequent updates of sharp, noise-free and highly accurate digital representations of the world are essential for modern city …
Earth Intelligence publishes heat hazard data
Earth observation company 4 Earth Intelligence has used satellites to create the UK’s first street level map of ‘at risk’ areas to help plan for and manage the effects of extreme weather conditions. With support from the Ordnance Survey through their Covid-19 Response licensing, the Heat Hazard Postcode data is …
NIST seeks public input on use of PNT services
To bolster the resilience of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and the wide scope of technologies and services that rely on precision timing, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting information from the public about the broad use of positioning, …