November 2008

Accurate geo-referencing and DSM generation with HRSI  Armin Gruen |  Navigation in India: smooth sail or a bumpy ride  Amit Prasad, Shivalik Prasad, Ashutosh Pande, Raghvendra Krishnamurthy, Shashank N Dhaneshwar, Alok Shankar  | Is surveying a dying profession Francis W Derby |  Surveying is not a dying profession AW Mir | Understanding land administration system  Ian Williamson, Stig Enemark, Jude Wallace, Abbas Rajabifard | Chandrayan-1 | Interview Magnus Nilsson

In-car navigation in India:Smooth sail or a bumpy ride
Amit Prasad, Shivalik Prasad, Ashutosh Pande, Raghvendra Krishnamurthy, Shashank N Dhaneshwar, Alok Shankar
Perspectives on key factors aiding and affecting in-car navigation in India. [more]
 

Accurate geo-referencing and DSM generation with HRSI
Armin Gruen
Satellite images are an interesting source for 3D mapping. However, they still do have a number of substantial disadvantages when compared to aerial images [more]

Is Surveying a dying profession?
Francis W Derby
Although the decline in enrollments into surveying programs is causing some institutions to reconsider the cost benefits for offering surveying education, the prognosis is not all gloom and doom.Surveying need to adopt the new technologies and to expand their operations beyond traditional activities [more]

Surveying is not a dying profession
AW Mir  
Surveying has been into existence far longer than some of the high tech and highly paid glamorous professions of recent times. Surveying was there when Egyptians were building pyramids [more]

Understanding land administration systems
Ian Williamson, Stig Enemark, Jude Wallace, Abbas Rajabifard
This paper introduces basic land administration theory and highlights four key concepts that are fundamental to understand modern land administration systems. The first part of the paper was in October issue of Coordinates. Here is the concluding part that focuses on the nature of ownership and the role of land markets [more]
Tidal Modeling for GPS Positioning
Muneendra Kumar
Nobody knows who is that Authority in tidal modeling, who formulated the present practice of computing in the “Tidefree” non-realistic and not-observable environment Innovative use of controlled photogrammetric models allows for faster map making [more]
Industry news
  
Galileo update
 
Other news
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Magellan news

Hemisphere GPS in India

Spirent communications and SGS Wireless partnership

Leica GeoMos Web

Leica FlexLine Total Stations

DiMAC ULTRALiGHT camera

AAM Hatch wins Spatial Excellence Award

28 channel GPS/Glonass receiver by Sokkia Topcon

Satellite navigation for emer--gency management by GMV

Trimble solutions for survey engineering

Chronos wins OS contract

GeoEye signs contract with Telespazio		  

EU not boldly funding space ambitions

The European Union wants to become a major player in space projects, EU ministers agreed, amid concerns that member states and industry are unwilling to provide astronomical costs involved

Radiation shut down EU test satellite for two weeks

A second test satellite for Galileo closed itself down for more than two weeks because of space radiation

Joint statement on GPS and Galileo Cooperation 
Representatives of the Government of the US, the European Community and its Member States met in their first plenary session to review and discuss the matters of mutual importance regarding cooperation in the use of global navigation satellite systems [more]

  

100 % FDI in GPS units soon in India

Thailand launches Theos

China satellite application industry worth 300b yuan

Kathmandu goes digital with online city guide

Bhuvan- India’s answer to Google Earth

Carbon accounting by Indonesia and China

New interactive e-map by Dubai Municipality

1 million POI by SatNav

New land policy document in China

GPS banned but Apple plans to sell.

iNav by Mapmyindia

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