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May 2006 | Comments Off on Rural infrastructure in India New thrust areas
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Rural development may be defined as structural changes in the socio-economic situation to achieve improved living standard of low-income population residing in rural areas and making the process of their development self sustained. It includes economic development with close integration among various sections and sectors; and economic growth specifically directed to the rural poor. In fact, it requires area based development…

May 2006 | Comments Off on A yen for regional navigation
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In the 1970s, the US Department of Defense began GPS development as a military force enhancer. In 1983, President Reagan offered GPS civil services to the world, free of direct charges, as a result of the KAL007 disaster. This global offer sparked widespread civil use of GPS and significant investment in civil GPS technologies, to include GPS civil augmenting satellites (e.g. US Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), European…

May 2006 | Comments Off on India’s Telephone Coordinates
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Since my first educational trip to New Delhi in 1951, …

May 2006 | Comments Off on MARK YOUR CALENDAR

May 2006

 

4th Taipei International Conference on Digital Earth

 

25- 26 May, Taiwan, Taipei

 

derc@mail.pccu.edu.tw

 

http://deconf.pccu.edu.tw/

June 2006

 

ICORG …

May 2006 | Comments Off on The first years of George Everest
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The last issue detailed the celebrations that took place for the anniversary of the birth of Sir George Everest but what do we know of the man? His is a household name because of its link to the mountain but many who are not surveyors either (a) think it is a made-up name for the …

Apr 2006 | Comments Off on Advent of modern cartography in nautical charting

A nautical chart is a medium of information and tool for safe maritime navigation. It is the chief nautical instrument for ocean route planning and safe navigation. With the time not only the user’s requirements have increased, but also the advancement in the expertise in the field of nautical cartography has resulted in better product in the most useful way. With the advent of modern cartography, chart contents are stored in…

Apr 2006 | Comments Off on Design methods for RF part of GNSS software receivers
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Many researchers and R&D laboratories in the world deal with the design of the software-based or experimental GNSS receivers using digital signal processing for work and experiments with received navigational signals. These concepts have one in common: the necessity of use of some analogue RF part before conversion of the signal to the digital domain. The problem of the RF front end design of the experimental or special purpose navigation receivers has to be solved. It is not an easy task as can be seen from many papers and conference contributions. The aim of this paper is analysis of the possibility of such GNSS RF front end design. We will discuss the following three main approaches

Apr 2006 | Comments Off on Water vapour estimation at few GPS sites in Indian subcontinent
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Atmospheric water vapour estimation from the GPS data, surface total pressure and the mean tropospheric temperature is the most cost effective method which gives all weather good spatio-temporal coverage. Precipitable Water Vapor (PWV) in the atmosphere can be estimated from GPS data by determining the travel time delay of GPS radio signals through the troposphere. Water vapour is already identified as…

Apr 2006 | Comments Off on A capital chaos

 
 
 

 

Delhi faces confusion and chaos.
With a pressure to host Commonwealth games in 2010.
Unauthorized construction, encroachments, illegal …

Apr 2006 | Comments Off on Optimizing gravimetric geoid solution

Transformation of GPS derived ellipsoidal height to orthometric height is one of the most important applications of gravimetric geoid. Its applicability remains questionable if the above transformation cannot be done to a reasonable order of accuracy. Use of GPS observations at levelling benchmarks and subsequently determined geoidal seperation using the geometrical relationship between geoid and ellipsoid (see fig. 1 )…