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May 2010 | No Comment

The development and deployment of the European Satellite Based Augmentation System EGNOS followed by the development of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Galileo, that is currently under deployment, definitely represent the largest technological initiative promoted by the European Union so far. While designing and setting up its…

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May 2010

International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems

31 May – 02 June 2010

Saint Petersburg, Russia

http:/www.elektropribor.spb.ru

June 2010

Toulouse Space Show 2010

8 -11 June

Toulouse, France

Contact@toulousespaceshow.eu

www.toulousespaceshow.eu

Navigation and Location Summit Europe

15-16 June

Berlin, Germany

http://www.thewherebusiness.com/navigationeurope

IMTA Asia Pacific Conf. & Trade Show

18 -19 June

Melbourne, Australia

www.maptrade.org/events

GEA’2010

22 -24th June

Cracow, Poland

jacek@gea.com.pl

http://gea.com.pl/targieng.php

July 2010

ISPRS Centenary Celebrations

4 July

Vienna, Austria

www.isprs100vienna.org

ESRI International User Conference

12-16 July

San Diego, USA

www.esri.com

August 2010

Bengaluru Space Expo

25-28 August

Bangaluru, …

May 2010 | No Comment

In the historical background section on the ISPRS site it says, “There is no clear-cut distinction between photogrammetry and remote sensing, and it is for this reason that the Society changed its name in 1980.” What then is the individual significance of ‘photogrammetry’ and ‘remote sensing’ for ISPRS?

May 2010 | No Comment

Nature strikes at will.
Some areas and people are better prepared.
Some are not.
Haiti is a case in point.
Poor infrastructure.
Inadequately trained personnel.
Weak cooperation among institutions.
And the situation worsened
When the earthquake struck.
Tremendous efforts have been made.
And are being made.
Still.
Any lesson learnt?

Bal Krishna, Editor
bal@mycoordinates.org

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Apr 2010 | No Comment

Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry (SVLBI) is an extension of the ground-based VLBI technology to space, which involves a simultaneous observation of the same radio source by two stations; one on the ground, the other being space-based. It could not only overcome the baseline length limitation problem specific to groundbased VLBI technology, with a great improvement on the observation resolution, but could also directly…

Apr 2010 | No Comment

The Netherlands are a small country in the North West part of Europe with a high density of population. The area of only 41.000 km² is used by 16 Mio. Inhabitants, resulting into 400 inhabitants per km². There is an excellent infrastructure with 2.300 km of motorways and 137.000 km of roads in total complemented by a network of railways and bicycle tracks. The roads are used by 8 Mio. cars and 140.000 heavy goods vehicles. Although…

Apr 2010 | No Comment

The NRSC User Interaction Workshop 2010 organised by the National remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Department of Space, India was an opportunity to inform the Geo spatial user community regarding the various developments that have happened in terms of Products and services available to them and also for the user community to share their experiences.
G. Balachandran, …

Apr 2010 | One Comment

With the wide access to relatively inexpensive or freeware computer software for map production and using the Internet and the World Wide Web (Web) for dissemination this process has been automated somewhat, enabling the production of products and (Web) publishing to be fairly straight-forward. Using the Web as a publishing medium has allowed these relatively small voices to disseminate their viewpoint, which might otherwise be impossible…

Apr 2010 | No Comment

The Munich Satellite Navigation Summit 2010 was held from March 9 – 11 in the famous Residenz Munich, traditionally organized by the Institute of Geodesy and Navigation of the University FAF Munich. Prof. Bernd Eissfeller, Director of the hosting Institute, was delighted to welcome 450 attendees from about 25 nations.
GNSS – quo vadis?
This year´s motto …

Apr 2010 | No Comment

April 2010

Geo-siberia  2010

27 – 29 April

Novosibirsk, Russia

www.geosiberia.sibfair.ru

ASPRS 2010

26-30 April

San Diego, CA, USA

http:/www.asprs.org/Sandiego2010

May 2010

INTERGEO East

19-21 May 2010

Istanbul, Turkey

www.intergeo-east.com

TIDES 2010

20 – 21 May

Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

derc@mail.pccu.edu.tw

International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems

31 May – 02 June 2010

Saint Petersburg, Russia

http:/www.elektropribor.spb.ru

June 2010

Toulouse Space Show 2010

8 -11 June

Toulouse, France

Contact@toulousespaceshow.eu

www.toulousespaceshow.eu

IMTA Asia Pacific Conf. & Trade Show

18 -19 June

Melbourne, Australia

www.maptrade.org/events

GEA’2010

22 -24th June

Cracow, Poland

jacek@gea.com.pl

http://gea.com.pl/targieng.php

July 2010

ISPRS …