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Feb 2009 | Comments Off on Defining limits

 
 
 

 

A group of Japanese professionals and lawyers have asked Google to
stop providing the detailed street level images of Japanese cities.
Their concern is that it violates privacy rights.
The ‘owners of the technology’ tend to demonstrate the extent
to which the technology can go and what …

Feb 2009 | Comments Off on MARK YOUR CALENDAR

February 2009

 

3rd GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium

 

4-6 February Kyoto,Japan

 

geoss-ap3@restec.or.jp

 

http://www.prime-intl.co.jp/geoss/

 

Galileo Open SErvice

 

12 February, …

Jan 2009 | Comments Off on MARK YOUR CALENDAR

December 2008

 

GEOExpo 2008 China

 

2 – 4 December 2008,

 

Shanghai, China

 

sales@chinageo-expo.com

 

http://www.ChinaGeo-Expo.com

January 2009

 

ESRI Asia Pacific User Conference

 

20-21 January 2009

 

Singapore city,Singapore

 

http://www.esri.com/events/apuc/index.html

 

Intergeo East

 

27-29 January 2009

 

Istanbul,Turkey

 

http://www.intergeo-east.com

February 2009

 

Trimble Dimension 2009

 

123-25, February 2009

 

The Mirage, Las Vegas, USA

 

http://www.trimbleevents.com/dimensions09

March 2009

 

Munich Satellite Navigation Summit Conference

 

March 3-5,2009

 

Munich, Germany

 

http://www.munich-satellite-navigation-summit.org

April 2009

 

GEO Siberia 2009

 

21-23 April

 

Novosibirsk, Russian

 

nenash@sibfair.ru

 

http://www.geosiberia.sibfair.ru

May 2009

 

International Conference on …

Jan 2009 | Comments Off on A cautious welcome to 2009

 
 
 

 

Economic slowdown, meltdown, recession…
Cost cut, retrenchments, …
Fears, uncertainty, survival issue…
Is geomatics industry immune?
No, if we talk about banking, retail or auto segments…
To an extent yes, if we think about government-driven infrastructure projects.
Defence, internal security, …
Appears, we are heading towards diffi cult times.
It is also a time to correct fundamentals.
Focus on forgotten sectors like agriculture.

Jan 2009 | Comments Off on “With slashed products prices, coming days ill see improved web based services”

says Dr V Jayaraman, director, National Remote Sensing Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation, in …

Jan 2009 | No Comment
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Current global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) [1] are based on signals lying within the L-band of the radio-navigation satellite service (RNSS) spectrum. Since the need for more systems and signals is emerging, new alternative frequency resources are needed. In particular, the C-band frequency portion is envisioned as an option for future GNSSs…

Jan 2009 | Comments Off on “We let our brands and subsidiaries work and “live” as individual companies”
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says Ola Rollén, CEO Hexagon AB while discussing Hexagon brand and strategies

Please elaborate on the …

Dec 2008 | Comments Off on “NSDI must be used by common man”
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Dr R Siva Kumar CEO National Spatial Data Infrastructure on status and directions of NSDI in India

 
 

We are not hearing much about NSDI? What is the status of NSDI?
The vision behind NSDI is to make data available and accessible. Keeping this objective in mind policies and framework are formulated. Various aspects of …

Dec 2008 | No Comment
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The Wenchuan Earthquake occurred in Sichuan Province, China on the 12th May 2008 with M 8.0 in Richter Scale and 10km depth which resulted in more than 90,000 dead and missing. It is reported that the total loss is more than 170 Billion US Dollars…

Dec 2008 | No Comment
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The competition started nearly two decades ago in the United States as the National Engineers Week Future City Competition with the aim to provide fun and exciting educational engineering programs for school students by combining stimulating engineering challenges with ‘hand-on’ application to enable them to present their vision of a city of the future…