October 2013

UN GGIM AP

28 – 30 October

Tehran, Iran

November 2013

GSDI World Conference (GSDI14) and the AfricaGIS 2013 Conference

4 – 8 November

Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia

www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi14/

WALIS Forum 2013

7-8 November

Crown Perth, Australia

http://www.walis.wa.gov.au/forum

ICG-8: Eighth Meeting of the International Committee on GNSS

10 – 14 November

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

www.oosa.unvienna.org/oosa/en/SAP/gnss/icg.html

SPAR Europe/European Lidar Mapping Forum

11-13 November

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

www.sparpointgroup.com/Europe/

ISPRS: Serving Society with Geoinformatics

11 – 17 …

Many National Mapping Organizations (NMOs) gear up

To embrace the challenges

Of meeting the needs of their citizens

Acontour map is made up of contour lines and depicts the shape of any portion of the earth surface. A contour line is an imaginary line drawn on the map to connect points with the same elevation or height, above or below the earth surface to form a continuous line shown in brown colour on the map.

Both the eBee and swinglet CAM have been designed with ease of use for the end user in mind. Our drones are hand launched then fly & land fully autonomously. Safety is high on our list of priorities at senseFly, which is why our systems were developed with a foam airframe and rear-mounted propeller to…

The 22nd July 2013 saw the start of the first combined meeting of the Cambridge Conference and UN-GGIM. Both these conferences bring together geospatial leaders from around the world to discuss the pressing matters that are most prominent in this ever changing industry.

Traditionally, photogrammetry required significant manual effort, which limited its utilization. Since digital photogrammetry was introduced, there has been a constant improvement of the camera systems and the processing workflow. More data can now be collected and processed.

It has been a journey

From apprehensions to aspirations,

Enthusiasm to endurance,

Potential to performance.

It is not about desires

But more of deliverables.

Galileo is Europe’s contribution to the multi-GNSS to provide a highly accurate, guaranteed global positioning service under civilian control. Offering dual frequencies as standard, Galileo is expected to deliver extremely good realtime positioning accuracy. From users’ point of view, availability of Galileo’s signal would help in achieving a multi- GNSS environment for redundancy and system independence.

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is developing e-Navigation as the future approach to marine navigation in order to enhance maritime safety. As such, the IMO state that positioning systems for e-Navigation “should be resilient …. robust, reliable and dependable. Requirements for redundancy, particularly in relation to position fixing systems should be considered”

In recent years there has been an explosion in the sporting world in the use of GPS. You will scarcely see a runner or cyclist on the road without either a smartphone strapped to their arm, or a dedicated GPS device clamped to their handlebars, tracking their every move. The amount of information that the modern sportsperson – from casual amateurs to full time professionals – is logging, analysing, and sharing is phenomenal. There are now dozens of ways of uploading data for the whole world to share and study.