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Jan 2007 | Comments Off on GAGAN update

This paper is an update of the GAGAN status presented at NSP meeting on May 8-19, 2006 held at Brussels, Belgium and also provides the future roadmap of the project. GAGAN will provide augmented information for satellite navigation to the aircraft flying within Indian Flight Information Regions (FIRs), which consists of seven boundaries. India is situated inthe vicinity of equator. In the equatorial region the ionospheric variations are very predominant…

Dec 2006 | Comments Off on … and Everest retired …
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By 1840 Everest was beginning to think of retiring. He was reaching completion of the Great Arc which was his initial aim but after that he had no further plans that would keep him in India. The last link in the Arc was the remeasurement of the Bidar …

Dec 2006 | Comments Off on Pursuing a vision

 
 
 

 

There is a need to make available high resolution digital maps produced in India.
There is a need to place them on a website
There is a need to create a virtual Earth for India for easy access to its citizens.
There is a need to do this in a time bound manner with …

Dec 2006 | Comments Off on MARK YOUR CALENDAR

January 2007

 

Second Asia Pacific Conference for ESRI Users

 

18-19 January 2007

 

The Taj Palace Hotel …

Dec 2006 | Comments Off on GNSS waves at Jeju
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The 12th World Congress of the International Association of …

Dec 2006 | Comments Off on ICG holds first meeting
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The International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite …

Dec 2006 | Comments Off on GIS in local government
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Universal lessons have emerged from Australian local governments using GIS for more than 25 years. This commonality of GIS experience rises above the significant variations in functions, statues, geographical coverage and population densities in Australian local government. These lessons are relevant to the skill development, data access, technology integration, and functional integration of GIS to any organisation managing the assorted demands upon a region, or locality.

Dec 2006 | Comments Off on Is definition of WGS 84 correct
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The first and original version of the “WGS 84”, defined by a special committee of the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA), was released in September 1987. As this task of updating the WGS 72 was concurrent with development of the North American Datum (NAD)

Nov 2006 | Comments Off on Illness and politics An acrimonious period
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For extended periods throughout his long stay in India Everest was …

Nov 2006 | Comments Off on A lunar ambition

 
 
 

 

According to the reports published recently, ISRO plans to put an Indian in space by 2014 …