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September 2020
GNSS Advancements for AEC Virtual Conference Experience (VCX) Event
September 9-10, 2020
www.assetmapping.events/gnss
Commercial UAV Expo Americas – Virtual Event
September 15-17
www.expouav.com
Amsterdam Drone Week & UAM Hybrid Summits
17 September 2020.
www.amsterdamdroneweek.com
ION GNSS+ VIRTUAL
21-25, September
www.ion.org/gnss
October 2020
INTERGEO Digital 2020
13 – 15 October
www.intergeo.de
International Symposium on Satellite
Navigation (ISSN 2020)
21-24 October, 2020 Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
http://issn2020.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1
10th IGRSM International …

As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) struck Florida, Sarasota began locking down its municipal buildings, and the daily workload of many city employees waned
Sarah Alban
Director of Marketing at Eos Positioning Systems.
A parking enforcement officer and city clerk are part of an innovative project in Sarasota, Florida. Municipal staff whose traditional daily work has decreased due to …

The safety of engineering structures requires periodic inspection. Assessing the condition of the structure and its behavior cannot be done without a regular and frequent monitoring by establishing a network of geometric auscultation. The contribution of an analytical tool in the management of this network is the purpose of this work…

This paper is intended to establish living structure – a physical phenomenon and mathematical concept – as a formal concept or foundation for maps and mapping
Bin Jiang
Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, Division of GIScience, University of Gävle, Sweden
Terry Slocum
Professor, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
Abstract
The Earth’s surface or …

The impact of COVID-19 is most dramatic in the slow down of workforce training, education, and research at universities
Chris Rizos
Emeritus Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a co-director of the Satellite Navigation and Positioning (SNAP) Lab at UNSW. Chris is presidentelect of the International Union of Geodesy & Geophysics (IUGG)
At first …

In the pre-Covid-19 era,
Already there were concerns
Regarding too much of exposures to screens
TV, Computers, iPads, mobile,…
And their likely consequences.
Out of many, one of the repercussions of the Covid-19
Has been the many fold increase in ‘screen time’
Work from home, communications, webinars, even entertainment…
With many of our activities going online,
This new way of life,
Unfortunately being misconstrued as …
China launches last BeiDou satellite
China recently launched the last satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The satellite, carried by a Long March-3B carrier rocket, is the 30th BDS-3 satellite and the 55th of the whole BeiDou satellite family. The launch marked …

This paper outlines how AUSPOS and CORSnet-NSW are used to support datum modernisation in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, and investigates the performance of AUSPOS across the State
Volker Janssen
Senior Technical Surveyor in the Geodetic Operations team at NSW Spatial Services in Bathurst, Australia.
Simon McElroy
Senior Surveyor, leading the Geodetic Operations team at NSW Spatial Services in …

This paper reviews the background to the grounding of Clipper Adventure, and the geomatics issues related to the grounding
Bruce Calderbank
Retired Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), a Canada Lands Surveyor (CLS), a Canadian Certified Hydrographer (CH) Level 1, a Certified Professional Hydrographic Surveyor Level 1 (CPHS 1), and an Albertan Professional Engineer …