Eurocopter and Funkwerk Avionics have successfully completed a helicopter test flight with an EC145 in the Galileo test bed GATE in Berchtesgaden, Southern Germany. The test flight was observed by IFEN GmbH, the operator of the GATE test bed. The test marked the first time that signals from Galileo were used for navigation…

SimpleGeo location services infrastructure provides the foundation for new level of intelligent, location-aware applications. It makes it easy and cost-effective to add geo-aware features to applications. Built with developers in mind, it eliminates the excessive time and money spent to build and scale location infrastructure.

In a pioneering effort, an Atlas of Madhya Pradesh (MP), India has been prepared for the visually challenged in Hindi Braille. It contains eight theme maps on 1) Districts of MP, 2) National Highways passing through State, 3) Important district roads, 4) Railway Lines passing through state and their Junctions…

A household name with its ever pervading presence on the internet, Google has revolutionised our lives. Their ever increasing bouquet of offerings and services has had an impact on net users across the world. Google follows its own core principles and has been able to play a pivotal role in information access across many parts of the world…

The Netherlands are a small country in the North West part of Europe with a high density of population. The area of only 41.000 km² is used by 16 Mio. Inhabitants, resulting into 400 inhabitants per km². There is an excellent infrastructure with 2.300 km of motorways and 137.000 km of roads in total complemented by a network of railways and bicycle tracks. The roads are used by 8 Mio. cars and 140.000 heavy goods vehicles. Although…

With the wide access to relatively inexpensive or freeware computer software for map production and using the Internet and the World Wide Web (Web) for dissemination this process has been automated somewhat, enabling the production of products and (Web) publishing to be fairly straight-forward. Using the Web as a publishing medium has allowed these relatively small voices to disseminate their viewpoint, which might otherwise be impossible…

April 2010

Geo-siberia  2010

27 – 29 April

Novosibirsk, Russia

www.geosiberia.sibfair.ru

ASPRS 2010

26-30 April

San Diego, CA, USA

http:/www.asprs.org/Sandiego2010

May 2010

INTERGEO East

19-21 May 2010

Istanbul, Turkey

www.intergeo-east.com

TIDES 2010

20 – 21 May

Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

derc@mail.pccu.edu.tw

International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems

31 May – 02 June 2010

Saint Petersburg, Russia

http:/www.elektropribor.spb.ru

June 2010

Toulouse Space Show 2010

8 -11 June

Toulouse, France

Contact@toulousespaceshow.eu

www.toulousespaceshow.eu

IMTA Asia Pacific Conf. & Trade Show

18 -19 June

Melbourne, Australia

www.maptrade.org/events

GEA’2010

22 -24th June

Cracow, Poland

jacek@gea.com.pl

http://gea.com.pl/targieng.php

July 2010

ISPRS …

INDUSTRY | LBS | GPS | GIS | REMOTE SENSING | GALILEO UPDATE

RapidEye has China covered
RapidEye have successfully completed a contract to image 7.8 Million km² of the country of China ahead of schedule. The contract is with the Ministry of Land and Resources of China. …

INDUSTRY | LBS | GPS | GIS | REMOTE SENSING | GALILEO UPDATE

V100 GPS Compass revolutionize Parking Enforcement
The traditional solution to parking regulation was for enforcement officers
to manually mark vehicle tires with a line of chalk and later handwrite a ticket to
unmoved vehicles in violation of …

The Leica IPAS Freebird is designed to improve flight economy and simplify GNSS-IMU processing. It no longer requires a continuous lock of satellites and frees up mission planning by allowing much tighter turns between flight lines. The results are up to 25% improvement in flight economy for sensor missions and time saving of several minutes …