In the Budget, presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Lok Sabha, the allocation for the Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System (IRNSS), was pegged at Rs 262.10 crore against the revised estimates of Rs 220 crore last year. ISRO plans to have a constellation of seven satellites which are expected to provide position accuracies …

A group of Saudi Arabian and European partners have completed a project to implement and provide satellite based environmental information products and services to the Presidency of Meteorology and Environment (PME) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The environmental monitoring covers all four environmental domains “land – air – coast – marine” and follows …

NXP Semiconductors and IBM announced the final results of a landmark road pricing trial conducted in the Netherlands, which demonstrated that with the help of technology, drivers can be motivated to change their driving behaviour, reducing traffic congestion and contributing to a greener environment. The six-month road pricing trial, conducted in the city of Eindhoven, …

PCI Geomatics announced that it has signed a million dollar contract with Beijing Space Eye Innovation Technology Co. Ltd. (BSEI) to supply an automated image processing system to the China Centre for Resources Satellite Data and Application.
Under the terms of the contract, PCI Geomatics has been entrusted to provide an advanced image processing system for …

EZ-Sync™ solution is a wireless data transfer capability that provides enhanced information management for growers and agribusinesses. It is compatible with Trimble® Juno™ SC or Trimble Nomad™ 800XC. This makes it possible to wirelessly send GPS maps such as soil sampling, field scouting, and boundary maps from the field to the office.
4D Control software is …

Satellite navigation is having an enormous impact on our daily lives. In practical terms it means the only place left to get lost is indoors, where satnav signals fail to reach. But one ESA project is changing that. The DINGPOS (Demonstrator for Indoor GNSS Positioning) project combines a highly-sensitive receiver capable of picking up GPS …

Earthstar Geographics LLC announced the release of a new version of their TerraColor PLUS 15-meter global satellite imagery dataset that includes bathymetric relief shading in the ocean areas. The addition of ocean bathymetric relief shading adds interest to global and regional views, and provides geologic information about plates, continents and islands. The bathymetric shaded relief …

PCI Geomatics announced that it has signed a six-figure contract with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) to develop and deploy an enterprise level image management system to support the processing of RADARSAT-2 satellite imagery for an international customer.
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CTIA-The Wireless Association® Senior Vice President and General Counsel Michael Altschul issued the following statement after he testified on location-based services before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet and Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection:
“For more than fifteen years, CTIA has been at the forefront of efforts …

The World Wildlife Fund has warned that days are numbered for much of the sensitive Sunderbans eco-system and in 60 years vast tracts of the rare mangrove forests, home to the Bengal tiger, will be inundated by the rising sea. A study, focussed on Sunderbans in Bangladesh, says the sea was rising more swiftly than …