May 2008

IEEE/ION PLANS 2007

Co-sponsored by IEEE and

Institute of Navigation

May 5-8, 2007

Monterey, California, USA

http://www.plansconference.org

June 2008

International conference: “Studying, Modeling and Sense Making of Planet Earth”

1 – 6 June, 2008

Department of Geography,

University of …

Positioning by GPS can be derived today with a precision of a few millimeters. A GPS receiver determines the distance between the electrical phase center of its antenna and the phase center of a GPS satellite’s transmitting antenna as a pseudorange or a carrier phase observation. It is well known that the phase center of the antenna is not a stable point.

How would the world look like if you were standing on an arbitrary point on earth? It is not easy to imagine, how a randomly chosen location would look like since most pictures that come into our mind are somewhat special: our home, Piccadilly Square, a picture from National Geographic, or a photo that had been taken on top of a famous summit.

Many intelligent people into IT jobs in India are below their intellectual capabilities…
They are like coolies who are working for wages …

Filipo Rodriguez, Gian Paolo Plaia

Application of cognitive psychology for reduction of mapping errors

Human factors contributing to mapping errors made by operators working on digital mapping systems were studied from Cognitive Psychology perspective to evolve suitable strategies to reduce errors.
Mapping errors
Study area
Large scale topographic maps of better than 1:5000 scale with 1 to 2 m contours are …

April 2008

MELAHA 2008

13-15 April Hurghada,

Egypt

ain@aast.edu

http://www.ainegypt.org

GEO-SIBERIA 2008

April 22 – 24, 2008, Novosibirsk , Russia

strutz@sibfair.ru

http://geosiberia.sibfair.ru/eng/n

Toulouse Space Show’08

22-25 April Toulouse, France

contact@toulousespaceshow.eu

http://www.toulousespaceshow.eu/toulouse_space_show.htm

May 2008

IEEE/ION PLANS 2007

Co-sponsored by IEEE and Institute of Navigation

May 5-8, 2007

Monterey, California, USA

http://www.plansconference.org

June 2008

International conference: “Studying, Modeling and Sense Making of Planet Earth”

1 – 6 June, 2008

Department of Geography,

University of …

Does Google have multiple standards?

The Pentagon has banned Google from taking photographs and video footage of US military bases after images showing important security features of a base in Texas appeared on the company’s website. The Defence Department’s ultimatum came after images showing entry gates, barriers and buildings within the Fort Sam Houstan base, in …

Over the past 100 years the world’s total population has quadrupled – from 1.6 billion to 6.6 billion. (Footnote: Population Bulletin, “World Population Highlights: Key Findings From PRB’s 2007 World Population Data Sheet” http:// www.prb.org/Articles/2007/623WorldPop. aspx.) In many parts of the world we see growing poverty. We now face increasingly worrisome resource constraints and environmental difficulties…

Although Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) technology is developing rapidly, the major disadvantage of GNSS will still exist even when the European Galileo system is fully operational, that is, signal blockage due to obstructions and the low power of the signals. The combination of GNSS with a self-contained inertial navigation system (INS) provides an ideal solution, which can not only address the weakness of GNSS and but also bound…

Ground segment of GAGAN i.e. Indian Reference Station (INRES) at Delhi, Kolkatta, Guwahati, Portblair, Ahmedabad, Banglore, Jammu and Trivanthapuram is in place. Except Portblair, other stations have been connected to Indian Master Control Center (INMCC) with fiber optic cable in synchronous loop mode. Portblair is connected through dedicated satellite communication network. Its integration and connectivity test with seven INRES with INMCC have been completed. The INRES data is being received through fiber optic cable at INMCC Banglore for corrections and validation checks of the erroneous data. Preliminary Site Acceptance Test (PSAT) of GAGAN ground element was conducted in May 2006 with help of satellite emulator.