Volume 21, Issue 4, April 2025

The growing importance of geospatial technology and challenges

T Vijayalakshmi

GNSS Constellation specific monthly analysis summary: March 2025

Narayan Dhital

Impacts of climate and land use/cover changes on the sustainability of irrigation water in West Africa: a systematic review

Gemechu Fufa Arfasa, Ebenezer Owusu-Sekyere, Dzigbodi Azdo Doke and Justice Ayegi Ampofo
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Intelligent, automated, rapid, and safe landmine, improvised explosive device and unexploded ordnance detection using Maggy

Kaya Kuru, Aadithya Sujit, Darren Ansell, John Michael Pinder, David Jones, Benjamin Jon Watkinson, Ridha Hamila and Claire Tinker-Mil

GNSS Constellation specific monthly analysis summary: February 2025

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Geospatial Assessment of Impacts of Sand Mining Activities in Zanzibar

Rahma Rashid Amour and Haji Ali Haj


Aug 2023 | No Comment

The Overture Maps Foundation (OMF), a collaborative effort to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map products, announced the release of its first open map dataset.

The release includes four unique data layers: Places of Interest (POIs), Buildings, Transportation Network, and Administrative Boundaries.

These layers, which combine various sources of open map data, have been validated and …

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Locana, an international leader in spatial technology, is now a member of OpenStreetMap US, a nonprofit organization that helps support and grow the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project.

Conceived in 2004, OpenStreetMap is a free, open geographic database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via collaboration. OSM broadens access to high-quality data, lowers the cost of harnessing location …

Aug 2023 | No Comment

IBM and open-source AI platform Hugging Face has announced that IBM’s watsonx.ai geospatial foundation model – built from NASA’s satellite data – will be available on Hugging Face. It will be the largest geospatial foundation model on Hugging Face and the first-ever open-source AI foundation model built in collaboration with NASA.
As part of a Space …

Aug 2023 | No Comment

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for cooperation in Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Innovative Air Mobility.
This MoU will focus on collaboration on unmanned aircraft and innovative air mobility between the civil aviation authorities.
This collaboration would include cooperation between …

Aug 2023 | No Comment

Greater Chennai Police, in India, established a ‘Drone Police Unit’ to assist cops in aerial surveillance. This is going to help in case of large gatherings, real-time checking of vehicle registration data, and spotting of suspects.

The project costs approximately Rs 3.6 crore, according to a press release by the GCP. The project was inaugurated by …