June 2023  

Surveying in Nigeria: Academic and Professional challenges Godwill Tamunobiekiri Pepple, Emilia Biobele West, Precious Lenyie and Amarachi Oteyi | How prepared is Delhi for a 7 intensity earthquake? A K Jain | GIS mobile application for crime reporting and monitoring D Duffour, C Y Asante and A A Acheampong | Old Coordinates | Spatial AI: how drones navigate



SURVEYING

Surveying in Nigeria: Academic and professional challenges
Godwill Tamunobiekiri Pepple, Emilia Biobele West, Precious Lenyie And Amarachi Oteyi
Over 80% of Nigerian schools do not introduce the Elementary Surveying as a profession to students. Thus, many post primary school leavers lack the basic information of Institutions offering Surveying and Geoinformatics programmes in Nigeria....
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URBAN PLANNING

How prepared is Delhi for a 7 intensity earthquake?
A K Jain
Delhi has a large numbers of unsafe structures all over. The apprehension that whether Delhi would withstand an earthquake of 7 magnitude similar to that occurred in Turkey and Syria this year needs to be pondered upon seriously....
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GIS

GIS mobile application for crime reporting and monitoring
Dennis Duffour, Cosmas Yaw Asante And Akwasi Afrifa Acheampong
This study provided the police officers in the La- Dade Kotopon district Police headquarters with a user-friendly software for capturing crime data based on spatial location in real-time for hotspot maps, crime detection, classification, crime spatial dissemination and allocation of resources....
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Singapore pledges S$10 million to the ITU P2C Digital Coalition
Geospatial Commission recommends creation of new taskforce for land use
Satellite derived bathymetry for 13 Regions to NGA

Underwater mapping breakthrough


NEWS - UAV
Airwayz Partnership with FlightOps
Draganfly expands collaboration with DSNS Emergency Services Ukraine
NAeL and Garuda Aerospace, India sign MoU for Drones Manufacturing

VERSES expands autonomous drone governance infrastructure


Parallel Flight Technologies inks with India's UAV Systems


NEWS - AUTONOMOUS & AI
Baidu launches $145 mn fund to back Chinese AI startups
Run:ai and AI Singapore partnership
DMV issues an autonomous vehicle deployment permit to Mercedes-Benz

TuSimple among first to receive fully driverless test license in China


NEWS - IMAGING

OSK successfully launches third GHOSt satellite


LiDAR perimeter intrusion detection
Planet partners with the UAE Space Agency

Australia collaborates on international effort to launch COSPAR satellite


Pix4D unveils new open standard for photogrammetric data


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