India has joined leading nations of the world including USA, UK, EU, Australia among others as a founding member of a league of nations which has launched a Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI or Gee-Pay).
The first of its kind initiative is aimed to guide responsible development and use of AI, grounded in human rights, …

Volume XVI, Issue 6, June 2020
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Covid 19: GIS and Digital Urban Development
A K Jain
Land adminsitration and climate resiliency
Taga Raijeli Lewatu
Interviews:
Raphaël Siryani, Alexander Wiechert, P. S. Acharya
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EDITORIAL
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Raphaël Siryani, Alexander Wiechert, P. S. Acharya
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June 2020 to November 2020
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Wingcopter awarded
UAV startup Wingcopter is named as one of nine winners of Germany’s top global hackathon to kick-start humanitarian drone delivery. It partnered with UNICEF and the African Drone and Data Academy to develop a concept to deploy humanitarian drone delivery services. The goal will be to improve health supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. …
Broadening perspective with the new UltraCam Osprey 4.1
Vexcel Imaging released the next generation UltraCam Osprey 4.1, a highly versatile large-format aerial camera for the simultaneous collection of photogrammetric-grade nadir imagery (PAN, RGB and NIR) and oblique images (RGB). Frequent updates of sharp, noise-free and highly accurate digital representations of the world are essential for modern city …
Earth Intelligence publishes heat hazard data
Earth observation company 4 Earth Intelligence has used satellites to create the UK’s first street level map of ‘at risk’ areas to help plan for and manage the effects of extreme weather conditions. With support from the Ordnance Survey through their Covid-19 Response licensing, the Heat Hazard Postcode data is …
Scotland joins the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement
The first collective geospatial agreement for Great Britain allowing the public sector from England, Wales and Scotland to access Ordnance Survey (OS) geospatial data and expertise has been achieved.
The Scottish Government and Geospatial Commission have agreed that from 19 May 2020 Scotland …
June 2020
International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS 2020)
2 – 4 June
Tampere University, Finland
https://events.tuni.fi/icl-gnss2020/
July 2020
GI Forum
7 – 10 July Salzburg, Austria
www.gi-forum.org
Esri User Conference
13 – 17 July San Diego, USA
www.esri.com
AEC Next Technology Expo + Conference
July 27-29, Chicago
www.aecnext.com
August 2020
XPONENTIAL 2020
August 9-12 Boston, USA
www.xponential.org
September 2020
Commercial UAV Expo Americas
September 15-17, Las Vegas,
www.expouav.com
7th International Conference on Geomatics and Geospatial Technology …