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Making surveying education relevant
Garfield Young, Martin J Smith, Roger Murphy
This paper examines how selected surveying/geomatics programmes address the issue of making their courses relevant to industry... [more]
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The Obama administration believes we must protect existing GPS users from disruption of the services they depend on today and ensure innovative new GPS applications can be developed in the future. At the same time, recognizing the President’s instruction to identify 500 MHz of spectrum for new mobile broadband services, we will continue our efforts at more efficient use of spectrum. - Anthony J Russo
Aerial and ground unmanned vehicles are shrinking in size requiring smaller navigation payloads. Just as low accuracy GPS chipsets have opened up an increasing number of new applications we predict that these centimeter accurate compact modules will allow innovators to develop applications not yet on the drawing board. - Ed Norse |
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Controversy around LightSquared and GPS
The base stations of the LightSquared network will transmit signals in a radio band immediately adjacent to the GPS frequencies. The GPS community is concerned because testing has shown that LightSquared’s ground-based ransmissions overpower the relatively weak GPS signal from space...[more] |
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The realization of geocentric datum for Brunei Darussalam 2009
Haji Mohd Jamil bin Hj Mohd Ali, Haji Mahadi bin Haji Mohamad Tahir, Kamaludin Omar, Khairul Anuar Abdullah, Dr Tajul Ariffin Musa, Rusli Othman
The GDBD2009 has been successfully established using the GPS technology, and by adopting the ITRF2005 at epoch 2009.45 and GRS80 as the reference ellipsoid. Its implementation will further encourage the use of GNSS/GPS positioning technology by various mapping related agencies...[more] |
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Design of NGIS: one size fits all type
Pramod K Singh
The overall design of National GIS seems to be ‘one size fits all’ type. Instead, it should be bottom up, citizen-centric, demand driven, information centric, and customized...[more] | |
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