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Sep 2006 | Comments Off on Planning planned cities

 
 
 

 

Delhi itself gives the glimpse of the status of cities of India.
The stress of increasing population, lack of …

Sep 2006 | Comments Off on Cartography as a tool in study of dredging
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Mumbai acquired its port importance only with the advent of the Portuguese in 1508. Francis Almeida sailed into this harbour and called it as Bom Bahia or the Good Bay. The British corrupted the Portuguese name “Bom Baia” to “Bombay”. The Kolis used to call the islands “Mumba” after Mumbadevi.
It was the British who developed it into a centre of commerce to rival any other centres in the country then. The British embarked upon large-scale reclamations and engineering works to consolidate the seven islands. In 1803 Bombay was connected with Salsette by a causeway at Sion. A causeway now called Colaba Causeway joined the island of Colaba to Bombay in 1838 and the Causeway connecting Mahim and Bandra was completed in 1845. This gave access to the rich hinterland of the Deccan providing further impetus for the growth of then Bombay.

Sep 2006 | Comments Off on The end of ‘Last Orders’ in spatiotemporal representation?
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Despite the rapid advances in software and hardware technologies, the development of temporal databases capable of dealing with the evolution of geographical entities remains a challenging task. The aim of this paper is to discuss a proposed model that is able to handle spatial entities over time as a continuum.

Sep 2006 | Comments Off on “We encourage fishermen to use GPS”
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Says Dr Shailesh Nayak, Director, Indian National …

Sep 2006 | Comments Off on “FSI is well equipped with state of the art systems“
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Forest Survey of India celebrates 25 years. On this occation …

Sep 2006 | Comments Off on “GPS has proven to be a boon to all the users”
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James Doherty, President, The Institute of Navigation …

Aug 2006 | Comments Off on MARK YOUR CALENDAR

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First Indonesian Geospatial Technology Exhibition Hosted by …

Aug 2006 | Comments Off on Everest back in India 1822-1825
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Everest arrived back in India at the end of 1821 and then had to trek …

Aug 2006 | Comments Off on The information battle

 
 
 

 

The clout of Indian bureaucracy is demonstrated, again.
On July 20, the Union Cabinet of India approves …

Aug 2006 | Comments Off on Demeter micro-satellite
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Early warning of earthquakes has actually become the main goal of seismology. And though seismic prediction started as a purely seismological discipline, it now involves hydrology, hydro -geochemistry, measurement of telluric and magnetic fields etc. The parameters under observations for the purpose of diagnosing seismic regimes include hydro -chemical parameters, atmospheric electrical disturbances, electromagnetic emissions, anomalous disturbances in the ionosphere and the magnetosphere recorded by satellite.