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Islands have been used as a base to establish facilities to support maritime operations. Japan had established a military radar facility on…

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Data mines & data mining
In this digital world
how we all are vulnerable,
is well demonstrated by
Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data controversy.
When we are tracked, tapped and trapped,
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),
A regulation in European Union (EU) law on data
Protection and privacy for all individuals within the EU
Is a welcome and comforting step
As it endeavors to restrain
The data harvesting …

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June 2018

Drones Conference 2018 & Workshop

28 – 29 June
Johannesburg, South Africa

http://www.dronesconference.co.za

July 2018

GI Forum 2018

3 – 6 July Salzburg, Austria

http://www.gi-forum.org

Esri International User Conference 2018

9 – 13 July San Diego, USA

www.esri.com/events

ESA/JRC International Summer School on GNSS 2018

16 – 27 July
Loipersdorf, Austria

www.esa-jrc-summerschool.org

August 2018

5th International Conference on Geological and Environmental Sustainability

13-14 August Bali, Indonesia

https://geology.conferenceseries.com

September 2018

Inter Drone 2018

5 – 7 …

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Isro develops desi atomic clock, to be used in navigation satellites
In a significant development, Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has developed an atomic clock that will be used in navigation satellites to measure precise location data. The space agency currently imports atomic clocks from European aerospace manufacturer Astrium for its navigation satellites.
Tapan Misra, …

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The Agricultural progress of any region is generally influenced by the number of factors such as the physical, institutional, infrastructural and technological factors. All these factors are individually or collectively are responsible for the cropping patterns…

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The Brahmaputra river, a major trans-boundary river in the Eastern Himalayan region, originating in China flows through India and Bangladesh before draining into the Bay of Bengal. The river is known as Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet..

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In 2014 in KL I delivered an initial paper which explored the opportunities and very real benefits that could be afforded not only to professionals working in land, property and construction surveying but also to clients, the public and society more generally by the setting…

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Developments in the era of advanced science and technology nowadays is a challenge and an opportunity, especially in the field of geospatial information in Indonesia. As stipulated by the Act 1945 article 28 F that every person has the right…

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Since its establishment 25 years ago, SIRGAS (Spanish acronym for Geocentric Reference System for the Americas) is the starting point in Latin America dealing with acquisition and treatment of geospatial information with scientific…

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DÉJÀ VU
According to the Survey of India website
(http://www.surveyofindia.gov.in/news/view/103)
One may see the New Map Restriction Policy- 2017
for Sale, Publication and Distribution of Maps and Data
released by the Ministry of Defence, India
It states that “the renewal of the guidelines
is necessitated so as to bring them
in tune with the liberal economic regime
and to accommodate the technological changes…
However, is …