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Aug 2007 | Comments Off on The shades of independence

 
 
 

 

India celebrates 60 years of independence.
We are happy once again.
A celebration for democracy and democratic values.
On the occasion, we take a look at two movements.
National Spatial Data Infrastructure and Sustainable …

Aug 2007 | Comments Off on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation

 

The 7th International Navigational Symposium on Marine Navigation and …

Aug 2007 | Comments Off on ESRI’s International User Conference Continues to Inspire
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IN his opening address at ESRI’s 27th annual International User …

Aug 2007 | Comments Off on Geomatics for infrastructure development

 

A seminar on “Geomatics for Infrastructure Management” …

Aug 2007 | Comments Off on Expanding horizons in a shrinking world
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15-19 July 2007, Cambridge

THE theme of the Cambridge Conference was “Expanding horizons …

Aug 2007 | Comments Off on Managing land information
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LAND forms important part of development activity. Land revenue is one of the sources of income for state governments. It may come from land holdings by private individuals, real estate transactions or other natural resources being tapped by various sections of the society. Hence, creation of a Land Information Management System involves

Aug 2007 | Comments Off on The benefits of future GNSS
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THE conventional geomatics industry including mapping and surveying applications has been revolutionized with the use of GPS, which is the best known, and currently fully operational satellite based navigation system operated by USA (Parkinson, and Spilker Jr., 1995). In the mean time, Russia also operates its own satellite based navigation system called GLONASS. The USA is modernizing GPS in order to retain its superiority in satellite based navigation technologies (MacDonald, 2002,). In order to keep up with USA’s progress in building next generation system, Russia is taking serious steps to modernize GLONASS as well (Federal Space Agency for the Russian Federation, 2005). The GPS and GLONASS signals are free but its availability is not guaranteed and currently most users are prepared to accept this risk (Parkinson, and Spilker Jr., 1995). However, as satellite navigation becomes a vital technology across a number of critical industrial sectors, the prospect of, for example, a nation’s transport infrastructure becoming dependent on this technology is a strategic risk that most industrial countries are not willing to accept. This argument initiated the Galileo program in Europe. Therefore, those systems form the mainframe of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) (MacDonald, 2002,).

Aug 2007 | Comments Off on MARK YOUR CALENDAR

August 2007

 

GIS 14 Conference

 

14-15 August 2007

 

Vietnam

 

2nd Indonesian Geospatial Technology Exhibition

 

29 August – 1 September

 

Bakosurtanal; Jakarta

 

http://www.geospatial-exh.com/

September 2007

 

First International Summer School on Global Navigation Satellite Systems

 

Sep 02 – 09 2007

 

Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, …

Jul 2007 | Comments Off on Breaking grounds

 
 
 

 

We published a circular by Central Board of Excise and Customs, Government of India that came out in April (Coordinates, May 2007).
The circular classifies high technology featured mobile phone including GPS as a secondary feature as mobile phone.
That implies four per cent custom duty rather than 34 per cent as applicable to …

Jul 2007 | Comments Off on Everyone gets it or no-one does
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— Michael Shaw, Director of the National Coordination Office for Space- Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT), on the availability of GPS signals around the world

 
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