April 2009
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Exploring the moon in three dimension  P K Srivastava, B Gopala Krishna and Amitabh |  A sensor architecture for high precision UAS navigation  Luca Garbarino, Vittorio Di Vito, Ettore De Lellis, Carmine Marrone and Federico Corraro | Calibration method of IMU based only accelerometers Wu Junwei  | Taking Geomatics to greater heights in India P Misra  | “Our motto: Right features, Right time, Right price” François Erceau
   
Exploring the moon in three dimension
P K Srivastava, B Gopala Krishna and Amitabh
Chandrayaan-1 is India’s first science mission to moon for remote sensing and mapping different aspects of the lunar surface. The primary objective of the mission is to expand the scientific knowledge about the origin and evolution of moon. The scientific objectives of this mission are simultaneous geochemical, mineralogical and photo-geological studies and topographical mapping of the moon in visible, near infrared, low and high energy X-rays with high resolution of the whole lunar surface. [more]
A sensor architecture for high precision UAS navigation
Luca Garbarino, Vittorio Di Vito, Ettore De Lellis, Carmine Marrone and Federico Corraro
Great research effort has been devoted to the achievement of high automation in the landing phase, so as to allow the landing of an aircraft without human intervention. Currently, no single sensor is capable of reliably realizing the required performance without relying on some ground measurement, hence UAS navigation requirements can be fulfilled only by integration of measurements from multiple sensors. .[more]
Calibration method of IMU based only accelerometers
Wu Junwei
In this article, one scheme of IMU-BA in which all of the nine accelerometers directions are parallel to the frame axis, are introduced to investigate the calibration of the installation errors of IMU-BA[more]
Taking Geomatics to greater heights in India - Thoughts on land information system, policies and reorganisation
P Misra
The changes suggested in the organizational structure will hopefully bring better production, healthy competition and ease of cadre problems. The coordinating role of the Ministry of Science &Technology consequently will increase for the betterment of the profession [more]
Industry news
  
Galileo update
 
Other news

First real-time passenger info system by GMV

Topcon announces GRS-1

Leica GeoMos Web Evaluation License

Cadcorp SIS 7.0 released

Spatial Law and Policy Committee by OGC

$450m contract for Rockwell Collins

Alliant Energy has signed ELA with ESRI

Own rockets in satellite launches from 2010

EC selects SES ASTRA for EGNOS

Record revenues by Hemisphere GPS

NAVCOM partners with Astrium services

Trimble Dimensions 2009

 


Galileo and Compass argue over frequencies

TThe Christian Science Monitor reports that the China’s insistence on using the same radio frequency as Galileo may render some features of the Galileo unusable in the event of a crisis [more]

European court of auditors lambasts Galileo programme

Preliminary observations on “The management of the Galileo’s programme’s development and validation phase, “adopted by the European Court of Auditors (ECA) is a kind of post-mortem filled with ruefulness. The Galileo programme is five years behind schedule and facing a current over run of Euro 2.25 billion above the 2000 cost projection of Euro3.33b [more]

  


Metadata Standards ver 2.0 by Indian NSDI

Manifold sets GIS record for Supercomputing Desktop

LORAN-C proposed to be terminated by Obama

Glonass changes operating frequencies on 4 satellites

Turn by turn navigation by iPhone OS 3.0

MapmyIndia maps on Garmin GPS device

LBS in China by TSI

GeoEye sign reseller contracts

India’s own Google Earth causes security worries

GPStogo – a novel scheme

ESRI expands Virtual Earth Access in Arc GIS

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