Coastal navigation upgrade
The UK’s General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) have awarded a £4m contract to VT Communications for the upgrade of 14 Differential Global Positioning Service reference stations. The upgrade includes adding the capability to use modernised GPS signals that will be needed for tracking the future satellite navigations systems, Galileo and GLONASS. www.vtplc.com

New GIS software from India
The Space Applications Centre and Scanpoint Geomatics in Ahmedabad have released a new product, IGIS. It has been developed to a requirement from Indian Space research Organisation for a GIS software that could ingest data from its satellites and turn out information products. It contains an integrated image processing engine and a GIS. www.scanpointgeomatics.com

December 2008

GEOExpo 2008 China

2 – 4 December 2008,

Shanghai, China

 
sales@chinageo-expo.com

http://www.ChinaGeo-Expo.com

January 2009

ESRI Asia Pacific User Conference

20-21 January 2009

Singapore city,Singapore

http://www.esri.com/events/apuc/index.html

Intergeo East

27-29 January 2009

Istanbul,Turkey

http://www.intergeo-east.com

February 2009

Trimble Dimension 2009

123-25, February 2009

The Mirage, Las Vegas, USA

http://www.trimbleevents.com/dimensions09

March 2009

Munich Satellite Navigation Summit Conference

March 3-5,2009

Munich, Germany

http://www.munich-satellite-navigation-summit.org

April 2009

GEO Siberia 2009

21-23 April

Novosibirsk, Russian

 
nenash@sibfair.ru

http://www.geosiberia.sibfair.ru

May 2009

International Conference on …

SWEPOS™ is a network of GPS/GLONASS reference stations which began as a co-operation between the National Land Survey of Sweden and Onsala Space Observatory. The early design phases of SWEPOS were made in 1992. It was already then stated that the network should be of both scientific and practical benefit to the professional GNSS users and the public. The purposes of SWEPOS are mainly to [1]…

The three days of INTERGEO, which was held at the Bremen Exhibition Centre this year, have confirmed that the world’s largest congress trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management has a special place in the industry.
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As geospatial technology becomes an integral part of our daily lives, our ‘worldview’ grows and the world becomes a ‘smaller’ place. The technology itself has many facets, managed and used by a growing number of people. To understand how the interactions are taking shape among the various players of …

‘Bhuvan’- India’s answer to Google Earth
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will soon launch ‘Bhuvan’, which will provide online maps based on GIS in line of Google Earth, ISRO chairman, G Madhavan Nair said recently. It is equivalent to the Google Earth, but is going to be much more precise .It will provide the latest information on our natural resources. We are going to provide very accurate maps of the region with the latest picture. The service likely to commence in the coming six months, will be available to the people in appropriate manner. This will provide valuable and updated information to the people. The software and infrastructure necessary for the service is being established. Though most of the information will be online, but precision data will be given to selected users only,” Nair said. http://www.thehindu.com

Kathmandu goes digital with online city-guide
Savant Associates has unveiled mapmandu.com, the first online cityguide of Kathmandu. It uses an interactive mapping engine to facilitate localized search of destinations in Kathmandu on a digitalized map. It provides the users with up-to-date online information and other extensive services on various aspects of city life in Kathmandu. http://www.nepalnews.com

Accurate geo-referencing and DSM generation with HRSI
Armin Gruen
Navigation in India: smooth sail or a bumpy ride
Amit Prasad, Shivalik Prasad, Ashutosh Pande, Raghvendra Krishnamurthy Shashank N Dhaneshwar, Alok Shankar
Yes, we can!
Chandrayaan
Is surveying a dying profession?
Francis W Derby
Surveying is not a dying profession
AW Mir
Understanding land administration systems
Ian P Williamson, Stig Enemark, Jude Wallace, Abbas Rajabifard

Motorola launches GPS-based touchscreen phone
Motorola has launched its touchscreen GPS-enabled phone offering navigation maps and landmarks of 30 cities in India.
http://economictimes.indiaticommes.