Addition to LiDAR technology The European Space Agency (ESA) and Midaz Lasers Ltd. will work together on a development program to use alexandrite lasers to replace Nd:YAG lasers as the dominant source for LiDAR applications. LiDAR is currently dominated by YAG lasers as the laser source of choice but they can suffer from low efficiency and applications are restricted by lack of wavelength tunability which severely…
It appears that big talk and promises about the technologies (GIS et al) have still not carried weight and conviction with the user – organizations, the ultimate beneficiary of the productivity of the modern technologies. The spatial solutions have still not reached these organizations like urban development authorities. Land Information Technologies (LIT) have not delivered spatial solutions as a matter of routine or policy…
says Dr Bradford W Parkinson, Chief Architect of Global Positioning System
Dr Bradford W Parkinson
Chief Architect of Global Positioning System
Dr Parkinson oversaw the Global Positing System (GPS) program from conception through development and verification as the first GPS Program director and is best known as the ‘father of GPS’.He received his BS in general engineering …
Impressive
The articles particularly on BWSL, Sustainable Land Governance, in Coordinates are very interesting. More particularly BWSL where I have been on the Technical Advisory Committee of BWSL right from Conception to its Implementation. The article is written in an impressive manner, although we could have created a much bigger land mark / signature structure. Each one of the authors has contributed immensely as they have been deeply involved and contributed sincerely for the completion of the project and must need a loud applause. For “sustainable Land Governance”
Phase multipath is one of the most crucial error sources in centimetre or millimetre level GNSS high precision positioning. Short-delay multipath is still especially difficult to detect or mitigate by the state-of-the-art hardwarebased techniques. Therefore, processing algorithm-based multipath mitigation methods are crucial for the further improvement of positioning accuracy, either integrated with other techniques or in a stand-alone mode…
Practical multivariate statistical multipath detection methods
LAWRENCE LAU
The Tellurometer
J R SMITH
Sustainable land governance
Stig Enemark
GPS equipment accuracy testing
N K AGRAWAL
Point Cloud CAD 2010 and FieldGenius 2010 by MicroSurvey
The Point Cloud CAD 2010 allows the individual to work with Point Cloud and LIDAR data with ease. It works with hundreds of millions of points with ease and the ability to create line work very quickly, surface models and contours directly from the Point Cloud. Built on MicroSurvey CAD 2010 platform it uses the same rendering program used in products like MicroStation and 3DStudio
and uses the Leica PCE engine.
FieldGenius 2010 has many new features added to improve the work flow which include several new improved Stakeout routines ,new blue tooth manager for improved instrument communication, powerful new offset tools, point patterns etc. It can be loaded onto many data collectors.
DigitalGlobe signs agreement with Microsoft
DigitalGlobe has signed an agreement with Microsoft to launch the Clear30 program, an initiative to distribute high-resolution, 30-cm aerial imagery of contiguous landscapes, initially in the U.S. and Western Europe. http://media.digitalglobe.com
(5.00 out of 5)