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Spatially Enabled Government and Societies: Possibility or a dream? Abdul Kadir Taib, Ahmad Fauzi Bin Nordin, Brent A Jones, Greg Scott, Fuziah Binti Abu Hanifah, Hiroshi Murakami, Keith Clifford Bell, Michael Sutherland, Paul Cheung, Peter M Laarakker, Teo Cheehai, William Cartwright and Woosug Cho | GNSS vulnerabilities: Testing the Truth C S Dixon, C J Hill, M Dumville and D Lowe | The realization of [the] geocentric datum for Brunei Darussalam 2009: A comment and the response Kazimierz Becek and Adam Lyszkowicz | Too Fast, Too Furious G Schrock | Cloud services are transforming the remote sensing industry Brian Rohde | His Coordinates Guenter Heinrichs | No Coordinates Pampering Pedestrians |Download your copy of March 2012 issue!

  

 
GNSS vulnerabilities: Testing the Truth
C S Dixon, C J Hill, M Dumville and D Lowe
GNSS vulnerabilities are many and varied and include natural and man-made threats. Some are getting worse (imminent solar maximum, spectrum demand, low-price jammers coupled with incentives to use them). The impacts can be serious on a huge array of user applications. Do we really need to wait for a catastrophe before taking action against GNSS vulnerabilities? GNSS may be based on satellites, but the solutions to widely known vulnerabilities are no longer rocket science!...
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Spatially Enabled Government and Societies: Possibility or a dream?
Abdul Kadir Taib, Ahmad Fauzi Bin Nordin, Brent A Jones, Greg Scott, Fuziah Binti Abu Hanifah, Hiroshi Murakami, Keith Clifford Bell, Michael Sutherland, Paul Cheung, Peter M Laarakker, Teo Cheehai, William Cartwright and Woosug Cho
Geospatial experts from different background and part of the world share their views on Spatially Enabled Government and Society (SEGS) at UNRCC-PCGIAP International Symposium organized by Department of Surveying and Mapping Malaysia during 15 – 16 February at Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia. They highlight pertinent issues, challenges and suggest way forward to achieve the goal...
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Too Fast, Too Furious
G Schrock
It is almost tragic for both broadband and GPS that this episode came to this end. Whatever the outcome, or fate of LightSquared, the dialogue into solutions and alternatives should continue. But this must include all stakeholders. It was difficult to foster such conversations when there is a kind of spectral gun being held to the head of the end users. But despite this, a solution for the future, with enough time to implement is not out of the realm of possibility...
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The realization of [the] geocentric datum for Brunei Darussalam 2009: A comment and the response
Kazimierz Becek and Adam Lyszkowicz
Readers may recall the paper "The realization of [the] geocentric datum for Brunei Darussalam 2009" published in Coordinates, September 2011. We received a comment on this paper from Kazimierz Becek and Adam Lyszkowicz, which was shared with Survey Department, Ministry of Development, Brunei Darussalam for their response. Here we publish both, the comment and the response
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  Industry news   Galileo update   Other News
 
Spectracom new signal generator for in-line GNSS product testing

Hemisphere GPS and CarlsonSoftware alliance

First Z/I Imaging DMC II Camera sold in India

New rugged Trimble Juno series

‘Opportunity to learn how to begin thinking forward’ – Hexagon 2012

Breakthrough in automatic analysis of aerial images

NavX®-NCSProfessional GNSS Simulator

SXPad by Geneq is an affordable, rugged handheld computer.

Leadership in Testing E911 and LBS for LTE Networks by Spirent

Ordnance Survey, UK selects Leica Viva GS15 GNSS receivers

CS-10000 Aerial Digital Camera by Optech

TRIUMPH-VS shows interference in all GNSS bands including LighSquared

 


SSTL-OHB System consortium to build a further eight Galileo FOC satellites
European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani has announced that the consortium led by OHB System AG and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) will build a further eight satellites for Galileo...[more]

New satellites and launchers ensure Galileo start in 2014
With the signature of further contracts for satellites and launchers, Galileo is firmly on track for the provision of improved satellite navigation...[more]

Galileo satellite named after Cyprus schoolgirl
Adrianna Cyprus will be the name of a Galileo satellite, set to be sent to space in the coming years...[more]

UK government boosts space industry
The UK government granted GBP 2.5 million fund to enable around 22 British companies to develop commercial products and services using space technology...[more]

 


FCC Statement on Lightsquared and GPS

GNSS User Meet organized by ISRO

$12 billion for Glonass

Beidou navigation payload launched by Chinese rocket

Inaccuracy of GPS turns into a tool to predict quake

GPS L1/L2 antenna for high-precision heavy-duty tracking applications

Indian Government to track mobile users’

Esri Chief Scientist Receives Honors

US to spend USD 50 mn on aerial photography

EU Parliament supports GMES within fi nancial framework

Robots to map their environment

Malaysia soon to table National Geospatial Bill

 

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