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Mar 2021 | No Comment

Modern cities and urban environments are becoming denser more heavily populated and are still rapidly growing, including new infrastructures, markets, banks, transportation, etc. In the last two decades, more and more cities and mega-cities have started using multi-camera networks in order to face this challenge.

Mar 2021 | No Comment

This paper examines the spatial and temporal distribution of all COVID-19 cases from January to June 2020 against the underlying distribution of population in the United States. It is found that, as time passes, COVID-19 cases become a power law with cutoff, resembling the underlying spatial distribution of populations…

Jan 2021 | No Comment

 
When WhatsApp recently proposed certain changes in their privacy policy in certain parts of the world,
There was an outrage.
And this further has triggered a rush to the possible alternatives, which are just a few.
What purported as empowering,
Technology has entrenched deep in our lives.
And worse, has enslaved us. What we do, what we eat, where we …

Jan 2021 | No Comment

The environment for seagrass to grow is in marine ecosystem. Providing habitat for marine biota is the seagrass’ primary role. Aside from that, seagrass is also able to absorb and store carbon, thus reducing CO2 in the atmosphere. Seagrass live best in a shallow marine water body and estuary. Seagrass ecosystem are located across the seacoast, with less than 5 meters depth.

Jan 2021 | No Comment

The outbreak of the Covid-19 emerged from Wuhan, Hubei province of China, spread geo-spatially in more than 210 countries cau sing more than 25.416 million people of the global population infected and 0.851 million deaths (as on 30 August 2020), which is still exponentially spreading in geo-spatiotemporal way to the new geographical locations…

Jan 2021 | No Comment

At the Moscow University of Geodesy and Cartography, junior students are taught C++ programming according to a new training course tailored specifically for future cartographers and surveyors.

Dec 2020 | No Comment

 
This was the year, in which most of us have a story to tell,
This was also a year, which was a story in itself.
This was the year when many lost lives and millions livelihoods,
This was also the year when grits get glitters and valor.
This was the year that showed that the mankind is not as …

Dec 2020 | No Comment

All Americans benefit from a competitive 5G landscape, and that goal can be achieved without undermining U.S. Global Positioning System receivers and devices

J. David Grossman

Executive Director of the GPS Innovation Alliance

The “race to 5G” continues to dominate news headlines, congressional hearings and the attention of U.S. federal agencies — and rightfully so. With faster speeds, …

Dec 2020 | No Comment

Poor land administration affects the collection of revenue for local authorities and contributes to slow land delivery that affects the poor in urban areas. Since 1992 local authorities in Namibia have created reception areas to address the demand for land…

Dec 2020 | No Comment

In addition to 3D mapping aided corrections, we continue to work hard to make location as accurate and useful as possible

Frank van Diggelen

Principal Engineer, Google

Jennifer Wang

Product Manager, Google

At Android, we want to make it as easy as possible for developers to create the most helpful apps for their users. That’s why we aim to provide …