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The International Committee on GNSS 2010 report
The ICG has published a report on “Current and Planned Global and Regional Navigation Satellite Systems and Satellite- Based Augmentation Systems (SBASes),” which provides an overview of the current status and plans for the world’s GNSS …

An industry group is attempting to drum up interest in the European Galileo satellite positioning system with a contest featuring £435,000 in prizes. The 2010 Competition looks to kick-start commercial exploitation of the Galileo system and has a large prize pot to get businesses interested. Winners from each country participating in the contest will also be entered for the Galileo Masters Prize, which promises an additional £17,000 to the business with the best idea. www.V3.co.uk

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Extended CAD & GIS Data support in ERDAS APOLLO
ERDAS released ERDAS APOLLO Feature Interoperability, a new product extending ERDAS APOLLO’s native vector support by adding support for additional CAD and GIS formats and tools. It provides access to GIS data formats, including …

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Towards conclusive land titling in India
The Department of Land Resources (DoLR), Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, has prepared a preliminary draft of the Land Titling Bill. The Bill hopes to usher into the country the system of Conclusive Property Titles …

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PBBI launches SaaS-Based solution
Pitney Bowes Business Insight announced MapInfo(R) Stratus(TM), a Software as a Service (SaaS)-based solution for publishing and sharing location-based data and services. It is a Web-based solution that allows customers to push maps and data created in a desktop …

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GPS problems pose security concerns
The most recent upgrade to the GPS ground control segment created an incompatibility issue with a specific type of military GPS receiver used on at least 86 different US weapon systems, some of which cannot be used until …

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Galileo sat-nav contest gets underway
An industry group is attempting to drum up interest in the European Galileo satellite positioning system with a contest featuring £435,000 in prizes. The 2010 Competition looks to kick-start commercial exploitation of the Galileo system and has a …

In a unique collaboration between national space agencies, the US and Japan began combining elements of their satellite resources to increase a critical type of Earth observation data. The partnership will more than double the quantity of this data that is used to explore earthquake hazards, forest declines, and changing water…

Lockheed Martin has nearly finished with critical design review for the nextgeneration of the GPS satellite. Its team working on the GPS III satellite constellation was on schedule for the critical design review phase of the program. The team has finished 26 of the 65 CDRs for the program. Overall space vehicle…

Eurocopter and Funkwerk Avionics have successfully completed a helicopter test flight with an EC145 in the Galileo test bed GATE in Berchtesgaden, Southern Germany. The test flight was observed by IFEN GmbH, the operator of the GATE test bed. The test marked the first time that signals from Galileo were used for navigation…