SEPTEMBER 2018  
Leveraging national land and geospatial systems for improved disaster resilience Abbas Rajabifard, Mika-Petteri Torhonen, Katie Potts, Alvaro Federico Barra, Ivelisse Justiniano | GNSS disruption - What's the risk? Dana A Goward | Reducing GNSS Receiver Vulnerabilities John W Betz | Self driving and flying robots Akshay Bandiwdekar | A Geo-Spatial Information Approach to Planning for Rurban Clusters Arpita Banerjee, Mahavir | INTERVIEW Guenter W. Hein
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Leveraging national land and geospatial systems for improved disaster resilience
Abbas Rajabifard, Mika-Petteri Torh0nen, Katie Potts, Alvaro Federico Barra and Ivelisse Justiniano
A project aimed at exploring the role of national land and geospatial systems in disaster risk management activities is currently being conducted by the Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience team of the World Bank and the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration...
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GNSS
GNSS disruption - what's the risk?
Dana A. Goward
A white paper by the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation offers some initial answers...
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Reducing GNSS receiver vulnerabilities
John W. Betz
The objective is to raise the bar enough that successful attacks causing significant consequences are difficult to carry out...
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NAVIGATION
Self driving and flying robots
Akshay Bandiwdekar
While no localization technology claims to work in every possible environment, use of combination of multiple sensors is the path forward to a fully autonomous future...
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PLANNING
Geo-spatial information approach to planning for rurban clusters
Arpita Banerjee and Dr Mahavir
It must be the development agenda at the state and national level utilize geo-spatial data to ensure the efficiency, effectiveness and equity that is currently missing from planning and implementation...
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HIS COORDINATES
"GNSS is no sole solver for each application. Of course, we have now many global and regional satellite navigation systems which can control each other. However, there are many other (safety-related)applications which require additional sensors and a sensor fusion."... Prof. Guenter W. Hein


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