9th Annual Geospatial Intelligence Conference and Exhibition,
21 – 23 January,
QEIiConference Centre, London,
www.geoplace.com;

UN-GGIM: Global vision and perspectives:
Joobin Im, Paul Cheung, Teo CheeHai, Dr Hiroshi Murakami, Dr Li Pengde, Datuk Prof Sr Dr AbdulKadir Bin Taib, Samuela Naicegucegu;

Measuring effects of mining on surface structure:
Asst Prof Dr Eray CAN, Prof Dr enolKU ÇU, Asst Prof Dr Hakan AKÇIN, Assoc Prof Dr Çetin MEKIK;

In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in the occurrence of natural disasters; for example, earthquake in Haiti and Hurricane Katrina. Taking 2005 Hurricane Katrina of New Orleans in the United States for example, approximately 150,000 human lives were endangered, despite efforts to evacuate residents to safe shelters.

Mining subsidence as a result of mine productions underneath the settlement areas, especially in Western European countries where underground coalmining is of great value, has been long a crucialmining issue with economic, social, technicaland environmentalaspects.

Considering its commitment to highlight the user rights issues, Integrated SpatialAnalytics Consultants (ISAC) has teamed up with Portuguese and Dutch academicians to focus in the current paper on the Indian Forest Rights Act from 2006 as the Use Case of indigenous property rights. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples reaffirmed the importance of the protection of indigenous property rights in Articles 25- 29.

NavCom Technology, Inc has announced a new feature for its GNSS receivers, StarFire Over IP. It allows users to access StarFire corrections over the Internet, giving them access to the same reliable five centimeter globalpositioning accuracy without the need for a base station.

An upset Tokyo has lodged a protest with New Delhiagainst the Survey of India not indicating ‘Sea of Japan’ on its maps by that name. India’s official map-making agency, the Survey of India has omitted naming the water body in its English version, though the Hindione calls the area ‘Japan Sagar’ on its maps. A marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Asian mainland, the Japanese archipelago and Sakhalin, it is bordered by Japan, North Korea, Russia and South Korea.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to launch 58 space missions, including sending spacecraft to moon and Mars, an exclusive satellite to keep a round-the-clock watch on the country and deploy 500 transponders in the next fi ve years. The space agency also aims to deploy its own version of the GPS by putting into orbit a constellation of seven satellites which would form the Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System (IRNSS).

November 2012
8th Fig Regional Conference,
26 – 29 November,
Montevideo, Uruguay,
www.fig.net/uruguay;

The 33rd Asian Conference on Remote Sensing,
26 – 30, November,
Pattaya, Thailand,
http://acrs2012.gistda.or.th;

Educating surveyors: Some of the challenges:John Hannah;

Key demands for sustainable land administration: Stig Enemark;

Improving cadastral survey procedures using crowd sourcing techniques:Sofia Basiouka, Chryssy Potsiou;