This paper highlights amusing research related to the animal kingdom, improving our understanding of animal behaviour, ecology and conservation, often by employing spatial tools and innovative approaches to data collection and analysis.

Volker Janssen

Publications Officer, Association of Public Authority Surveyors (APAS), New South Wales, Australia

This is the fourth in a series of papers celebrating some of …

Maj Gen (Dr) B Nagarajan

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Kanpur, India

Why is geodesy an indispensable science? How it has evolved over the years?
Geodesy is the science of accurately measuring and understanding the three fundamental properties of the Earth: its geometric shape, its orientation in space, and its gravity field. …

The United States and the Republic of Peru formalized a partnership that will facilitate cooperative research in Earth Observations and technology development, which has numerous applications for national priority research areas. This agreement, facilitated through the intergovernmental organization of the Group on Earth Observations, is an example of the lasting commitment of the United States and the Republic of …

The project NEIL (Navigation Early Investigation on Lunar surface) will experiment satellite-based positioning on the lunar surface. The project is at the center of an agreement between the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and NASA, linked to the CLPS 19-D mission (NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Service, Task Order 19) in which the US Space Agency is planning to land to …

CHC Navigation (CHCNAV) has released the NX510 Pro, a high-accuracy automated steering system designed for tillage, seeding, fertilization, pesticide application, and harvesting. With a steering controller and full GNSS RTK capability, the NX510 Pro can be quickly and easily mounted to various types of tractors and other farming vehicles to achieve ±2.5 cm pass-to-pass accuracy.

X510 PRO takes …

Hi-Target has designed a new generation of compact GNSS receiver V200. It can perfectly handle the situations encountered in all kinds of land surveys. This new product aims at providing a lighter and smaller surveying experience. It also guarantees RTK performance meanwhile minimizing the burden of land survey jobs.

In December 2015, Hi-Target released the first …

Hemisphere GNSS announces its all- new Outback Guidance MaveriX Precision Ag Solution.

The new MaveriX Precision Ag solution, built around the new MaveriX agriculture application software platform, provides state-of-the-art guidance, steering and application control.

The MaveriX application software includes a new user interface that provides an innovative tablet-like user experience with improved 3-D graphics. The included adjustable …

Volume XVII, Issue 10, October 2021

Modernization of land administration services in Uganda

Richard Oput

COVID-19 and the role of digital technology based on the ten global trends identified by the World Economic Forum

Rishiraj Dutta

Humorous science: Vampires and …

Collins Aerospace launches Military Underwater Navigation System
Collins Aerospace has launched the world’s first Military Underwater Navigation System with M-Code (MUNS-M), a handheld diver navigation system that provides the diver with precise position and includes secure anti-jamming capabilities during deep sea missions. M-CODE is the military GPS signal required by the U.S. DOD for military operations, …

Wipro and HERE partnership
Wipro Limited and HERE Technologies are partnering to offer location-based services, to customers from Energy & Utilities, Manufacturing, Transport & Logistics, Telecom and Automotive industry verticals. Both will be jointly developing solutions in the areas of asset tracking, logistics, supply chain, smartmetering and analytics, field workforce management, and private mapping-asa- service for …