The safety of engineering structures requires periodic inspection. Assessing the condition of the structure and its behavior cannot be done without a regular and frequent monitoring by establishing a network of geometric auscultation. The contribution of an analytical tool in the management of this network is the purpose of this work…

This paper is intended to establish living structure – a physical phenomenon and mathematical concept – as a formal concept or foundation for maps and mapping

Bin Jiang

Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, Division of GIScience, University of Gävle, Sweden

Terry Slocum

Professor, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

Abstract
The Earth’s surface or …

The impact of COVID-19 is most dramatic in the slow down of workforce training, education, and research at universities

Chris Rizos

Emeritus Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a co-director of the Satellite Navigation and Positioning (SNAP) Lab at UNSW. Chris is presidentelect of the International Union of Geodesy & Geophysics (IUGG)

At first …

Volume XVI, Issue 7, July 2020

Transforming the old map series to the modern geodetic reference system

Georgios Moschopoulos, Nikolaos Demirtzoglou, Antonios Mouratidis, Dionysia-Georgia Perperidou and Dimitrios Ampatzidis

Clipper Adventurer Grounding

Bruce Calderbank

Covid-19 and the Surveying Profession: A New Zealand Perspective

John Hannah

AUSPOS and CORSnet-NSW: A match made in heaven

Volker Janssen and Simon McElroy

My Coordinates

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In the pre-Covid-19 era,
Already there were concerns
Regarding too much of exposures to screens
TV, Computers, iPads, mobile,…
And their likely consequences.
Out of many, one of the repercussions of the Covid-19
Has been the many fold increase in ‘screen time’
Work from home, communications, webinars, even entertainment…
With many of our activities going online,
This new way of life,
Unfortunately being misconstrued as …

SatGen now with NavIC (IRNSS)
The latest update to SatGen GNSS simulation software SatGen v3 for PC now incorporates NavIC RF simulation.
Designed to create custom GNSS RF I&Q or IF data files based on user-generated trajectories, the updated software can now accurately simulate the Indian NavIC GNSS satellite constellation alongside existing GPS, Galileo, GLONASS …

China launches last BeiDou satellite
China recently launched the last satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The satellite, carried by a Long March-3B carrier rocket, is the 30th BDS-3 satellite and the 55th of the whole BeiDou satellite family. The launch marked …

AI enabled technology to ensure social distancing
Amazon has launched an artificial intelligence-based tracking system to enforce social distancing at its offices and warehouses to help reduce any risk of contracting the new coronavirus among its workers. One of the early solution developed at Amazon applies artificial intelligence and machine learning to the camera footage in …

Indian Government issues draft rules for manufacturing and using drones
The Civil Aviation Ministry of India issued draft rules for manufacturing drones and using it in the country. As per the new policy authorized manufacturer or importer can sell its devices only to an individual or entity approved by the aviation regulator DGCA. The draft …

Virtual edition of ESA Space App Camp 2020
For the first time, the ESA Space App Camp is offering a virtual workspace to 20 dedicated developers: a comprehensive preparation phase and an 11-day online Space App Camp, supported by Earth Observation, Artificial Intelligence and business experts. The winners will be rewarded with cash prizes, a …