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

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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, …

Scotland joins the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement
The first collective geospatial agreement for Great Britain allowing the public sector from England, Wales and Scotland to access Ordnance Survey (OS) geospatial data and expertise has been achieved.
The Scottish Government and Geospatial Commission have agreed that from 19 May 2020 Scotland …

says PS Acharya, CEO, National Spatial Data Infrastructure(NSDI), Department of Science & Technology, Government of India shares the status, activities and future plans of NSDI in India in an interview with Coordinates magazine

PS Acharya

CEO, National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), Department of Science & Technology, Government of India

What is the status of NSDI?
Over the years, …

Fiji has land ownership in Fiji are three different tenureship in state land (4%), native land (90%) and freehold (6%). With 90% of native land ownership, there lies traditional and sentimental ties to the land and its protocols.