The safety of engineering structures requires periodic inspection. Assessing the condition of the structure and its behavior cannot be done without a regular and frequent monitoring by establishing a network of geometric auscultation. The contribution of an analytical tool in the management of this network is the purpose of this work…

This paper is intended to establish living structure – a physical phenomenon and mathematical concept – as a formal concept or foundation for maps and mapping

Bin Jiang

Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, Division of GIScience, University of Gävle, Sweden

Terry Slocum

Professor, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

Abstract
The Earth’s surface or …

Volume XVI, Issue 7, July 2020

Transforming the old map series to the modern geodetic reference system

Georgios Moschopoulos, Nikolaos Demirtzoglou, Antonios Mouratidis, Dionysia-Georgia Perperidou and Dimitrios Ampatzidis

Clipper Adventurer Grounding

Bruce Calderbank

Covid-19 and the Surveying Profession: A New …

AI enabled technology to ensure social distancing
Amazon has launched an artificial intelligence-based tracking system to enforce social distancing at its offices and warehouses to help reduce any risk of contracting the new coronavirus among its workers. One of the early solution developed at Amazon applies artificial intelligence and machine learning to the camera footage in …

Indian Government issues draft rules for manufacturing and using drones
The Civil Aviation Ministry of India issued draft rules for manufacturing drones and using it in the country. As per the new policy authorized manufacturer or importer can sell its devices only to an individual or entity approved by the aviation regulator DGCA. The draft …

Virtual edition of ESA Space App Camp 2020
For the first time, the ESA Space App Camp is offering a virtual workspace to 20 dedicated developers: a comprehensive preparation phase and an 11-day online Space App Camp, supported by Earth Observation, Artificial Intelligence and business experts. The winners will be rewarded with cash prizes, a …

Survey of India to use drones for mapping of villages in India
Survey of India (SoI) has now approval from DGCA for high definition aerial mapping of villages in India using drones. The mapping agency of India got permission for the purpose under the SVAMITVA scheme of Ministry of Panchayati Raj which stands for ‘Survey …

This paper outlines how AUSPOS and CORSnet-NSW are used to support datum modernisation in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, and investigates the performance of AUSPOS across the State

Volker Janssen

Senior Technical Surveyor in the Geodetic Operations team at NSW Spatial Services in Bathurst, Australia.

Simon McElroy

Senior Surveyor, leading the Geodetic Operations team at NSW Spatial Services in …

This paper reviews the background to the grounding of Clipper Adventure, and the geomatics issues related to the grounding

Bruce Calderbank

Retired Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), a Canada Lands Surveyor (CLS), a Canadian Certified Hydrographer (CH) Level 1, a Certified Professional Hydrographic Surveyor Level 1 (CPHS 1), and an Albertan Professional Engineer …

In the present paper we present a methodology, which is based on the verification of the common points of the two different geodetic systems and the implementation of the well-known 2D similarity transformation. The numerical application took part for the Northern part of Greece (Central and Eastern Macedonia)

Georgios Moschopoulos

Freelance Surveyor Engineer and member of the …