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March 28, 2014, World Bank, Washington DC
This one-day ‘Spatial Innovation and Good Practices’ forum was jointly convened by the World Bank and the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) on March 28, 2014 at the World Bank’s headquarters in Washington DC as part of the ongoing collaborative activities between the Bank and FIG. The Forum was …
With the theme “GNSS – New Challenges” the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit returned ‚reloaded‘ after a one-year break. Once again the organizing Institute of Space Technology
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Outsmarting outages
The reported outages in Glonass
Not once, but twice in the last month
Triggers enough warning signals
Towards GNSS vulnerability.
Some of the experts have been alerting the GNSS community
On various threats and vulnerability,
Though many considered them as exaggeration.
With such incidences
And with increasing dependence on GNSS
Especially mission critical applications,
Hope actions will precede disasters
And not the other way round.
Bal …
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has described as politically motivated the USs’ decision to freeze the construction of GLONASS signal calibration stations…
The region of Balkan Peninsula and in particular, the territory of Bulgaria characterizes with active tectonics and seismotectonics. A number of geological, geophysical and geodetic investigations demonstrate the recent activity of the region, and have tried to give a reasonable…
After years of development, as the representative of GNSS, GPS technology has been gradually replacing the conventional triangulation techniques and has become the main means of access to ground control point coordinates. From the initial decimeter magnitude to the current sub-centimeter or even millimeter level, the coordinate precision of ground points has been highly improved upon…
National mapping policy 2005 has recommended the usage of UTM as projection for Open Series Maps (OSM), however there were reservations on adopting UTM for Defense Series Maps (DSM). Accordingly LCC with certain proprietary modifications was found suitable for DSM.
The paper aims to validate the use of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals prior to the occurrence of earthquakes as a means of earthquake prediction, by referring to the Great East Japan Earthquake (hereafter called the Great Earthquake). The Great Earthquake occurred….
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