NRSC inducts state of the art Airborne Large Format Digital Camera into service
National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad, India has inducted state of the art Airborne Large Format Digital Camera (LFDC) into the country and successfully carried out the first operational task during December, 2010 over 10 towns in Chhattisgarh state for the Department of Land Records, Government of Chhattisgarh. NRSC utilized it Super King Air B -200 aircraft fitted with Computer Controlled Navigation System (CCNS), Gyro stabilized mount and Kinematic GPS system (KGPS) for the survey.

Consumers share uneasy relationship with LBS
Location-based advertisements prompt nearly half of customers to take action, says a new study from Microsoft. The Microsoft-commissioned research in the UK, Germany, Japan, the U.S. and Canada, and found that 18% of consumers (22% in the U.S.) have seen an advertisement based on their location. Of those, 46% have taken action, including redeeming the coupon offered or visiting the store. Nine in 10 users think location-based ads are useful.

JAXA selects Spirent for Multi-GNSS Testing
To further the development of the Quazi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) program, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has selected Spirent Communications’ testing solutions to verify performance of its satellite receivers. JAXA is using Spirent’s GSS8000 Multi-GNSS Constellation Simulator.

Japan keen to own navigation satellite system
Japan is considering launching new satellites to establish its own global navigation satellite system (GNSS) in a bid to reduce its reliance on GPS network. The country aims to make it 10 times more accurate than GPS. The satellites would be of the same type as the so-called quasi-zenith satellite, Michibiki, or of a geostationary type. The project is being drafted by the Strategic Headquarters for Space Development headed by Naoto Kan, Prime Minister, Japan.

Law to ensure optimum use of geospatial tech in Delhi
A year after the Delhi government, India, launched its much-publicised INR 120-crore geo-spatial project to map the land and utility service records of the city, it has been observed that its officials prefer sticking to the old ways. Hence the Delhi State Government is now planning to enact a law to ensure that its officials use the technology in everyday applications.

Geoinformaiton for Disaster Management

Anticipating the obvious and growing importance of geoinformation for disaster and risk management a separate group of researchers, professionals and vendors have begun a worldwide discussion on collection, management, analysis, sharing and visualization of geo-information. The Gi4DM is coordinated by the ISPRS Ad hoc Committee on Risk and Disaster Management, Working Group …

 
February 2011
 

ILMF 2011

7 – 9 February2011

New Orleans, LO, USA

www.lidarmap.org/ILMF.aspx

16 International Geodatic Week

13- 19 February 2011

Obergurgl, Austria

www.geodaesie.uibk.ac.at/obergurgl.html

 
March 2011
 

The Munich Satellite Navigation Summit 2011

1-3 March

Munich, Germany

www.munich-satellite-navigation-summit.org

GEOFORM-2011

15-18 March

Moscow, EcoCentre Sokolniki

www.geoexpo.ru/defaulteng.stm

 
April 2011
 

6th National GIS Symposium in Saudi Arabia

24-26 April

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

www.saudigis.org

Geo- Siberia 2011

27-29 April

Novosibirsk, Russia

www.geosiberia.sibfair.ru/eng/

 
May 2011
 

ASPRS 2011

1 – 5 May

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

www.asprs.org/milwaukee2011/

Gi4DM 2011

3 – 8 May

Istanbul, Turkey

www.gi4dm.org

FIG Working …

A metric, Vulnerability Index Against Spoofing, is proposed and used to assess the effectiveness of a spoofer. The GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) positioning is known to be vulnerable to interference due to the long distance of radio-signal travel and the resulting low signal power. In the presence of interferences or spoofing, the GNSS navigation performance is likely to be degraded and the navigation function may even be incapacitated. Throughout the years, many GNSS interference mitigation techniques have been developed.

A very interesting feature of the transmitter approach is the possibility to locate transmitters underneath the receiver. The transmitter-based approach is an indoor positioning method, based on the use of a local infrastructure, aiming to provide accuracies of 1 to 2 meters. The GNSS signals are received by an outdoor antenna located in a place with an unobstructed view of the satellites. Note that another possibility is to use a GNSS signal generator (generating one or 4 satellites) instead of the outdoor antenna.

March 15 – 18

Moscow, Russia

dnj@mvk.ru

Link: http://www.geoexpo.ru/2011/eng/about/

The GEOFORM+ Forum takes place in Moscow and is the leading trade fair for the latest technology and equipment to build projects and works in the field of geodesy, geology, mapping, geophysics (fishing, nuclear, exploration and environmental), global navigation satellite systems, minerals and farm land, as well as in related subject …