UAV LiDAR to inform carbon emission reduction policy making
A specialist team at the University of Wiconscin-Madison (UW-Madison) used the Routescene UAV LiDAR system to detect and visualize forests in Northern Wisconsin, USA as part of the CHEESEHEAD project. The objective of this wider project is to improve weather forecasting by understanding further how vegetation and …

Exploring the limits of spectral remote sensing imaging systems
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, USA is funding a team of Rochester Institute of Technology imaging scientists to study the limits of spectral remote sensing imaging systems. Led by principal investigator John Kerekes, a professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, the team received a …

Galileo Second Generation proof-of-concept testing begins
The first Galileo Second Generation hardware has begun testing, with test versions of the satellites’ navigation payloads undergoing evaluation by Airbus Defence and Space at their Ottobrunn facility in Germany and by Thales Alenia Space at ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands.

These testbed versions of these new navigation payloads …

The draft “Indian Satellite Navigation Policy-2021 (SATNAV Policy-2021)” is hosted in website for public consultation. Comments on the draft policy, if any, shall be forwarded to this Department to the email id : dir.proj ects@isro.gov.in at the earliest, but not later than 29.08.2021. Here are the excerpts of the policy

Department of Space being the administrative …

As the world continuous to struggle with the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper provides an introduction to the use of humour in the scientific literature and highlights several examples

Volker Janssen

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

This is the first in a series of papers celebrating some of the weird and wonderful …

This paper outlines the innovative Property Business Registration System (PBRS) project to migrate separate deeds and titles registers into a single land information system and discuss some of the practical aspects

Mark A Griffin

IGN FI, Trinidad and Tobago

Carol Roffer

IGN FI, Trinidad and Tobago

Karen Bridgewater

Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs, Trinidad and Tobago

Nicole Moonan

Ministry of …

RACELOGIC Officially ‘One to Watch’

RACELOGIC, the company behind LabSat, has been named as one of the ‘10 Ones to Watch’ in the 22nd annual Sunday Times BDO Profit Tracker 100, which ranks Britain’s top private companies.

The 10 Profit Track Ones to Watch represents a cross-section of companies that have achieved or predict good profit growth. In …

DHS publishes free resources to protect critical infrastructure from GPS spoofing
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced today it has published the Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Integrity Library and Epsilon Algorithm Suite to protect against Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) spoofing, or deceiving a Global Positioning System (GPS) device …

The USA has issued the Memorandum on Space Policy Directive 7 on January 15, 2021. This Space Policy Directive establishes implementation actions and guidance for United States space-based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) programs and activities for United States national and homeland security, civil, commercial, and scientific purposes

This policy complements the guidance set forth in …

The Department of Space, Government of India has the primary responsibility of promoting the development of space science, technology and applications towards achieving self-reliance and facilitating in all round development of the nation. The report narrates all the major activities of the department including navigation, earth observation and Gaganyaan

Department Of Space (DOS), Government of India …