Uzbekistan
A South Korean Economic Cooperation Development Fund loan of $15 million will be used to set up a GIS in Uzbekistan. It's part of $155 million package of development loans.
- Central Asia Newswire
Zambia
GOVERNMENT has developed a Web-Based Spatial data infrastructure system embedded in the Zambia Preparedness and Response Information Management System (ZAPRIS) aimed at enhancing early detection of natural disasters in the country.
There's also work on a risk hazard map (natural and manmade disasters.
- The Times of Zambia
India
HUBLI: Samaj Parivartana Samudaya (SPS) has urged the Supreme Court appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) to use GPS (global positioning system) to mark maps pertaining to mining leases and the extent of encroachments by mining firms in Bellary district in order to make it a perfect document.
The original document was made using a total station; the argument is that GPS would be more accurate.
- Times of India
by Adena Schutzberg on 08/22 at 03:06 AM |
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At the largest geospatial conference in Brazil, geospatial technology users are meeting at MundoGEO Connect 2011 in Sao Paulo this week. As the photos from the exhibit hall reveal (see photos below; click for larger image), this is a vibrant community focused on data collection, image processing and related data management issues.
MundoGEO Connect is a three day conference and exhibition sponsored by the publisher of InfoGEO and InfoGNSS. Emerson Granermann, conference chairman, said that over 2500 attendees have registered for the event.
Clearly, the healthy Brazilian economy has led to widespread growth of the geospatial technology marketplace. The solution providers here represent the major geospatial software solution and surveying hardware providers.
With this growth comes an emphasis on coordinating geospatial activities within the government. Luiz Paulo Souto Fortes, PhD, director of geosciences for the Insituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica (IBGE) provided the keynote address to the delegates and addressed the need for a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). He discussed the recommendations of the 6th Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas United Nations to establish and coordinate policies and technical standards for SDI. Dr. Souto Fortes was also representing the OGC and discussed the importance of establishing a set of standards and technical specifications from which to manage data and metadata.
Joel Campbell, president of ERDAS, also keynoted the opening session where he discussed "Dynamic GIS" (see video) that is comprised of four key elements. These four key concepts include geospatial technology that is Internet enabled, interoperable, mobile and and leverages cloud computing. He added that it requires data that is timely, accurate and authoritative.
The conference continues with keynote speakers from Safe Software, Topcon, Leica Geosystems, RapidEye, and ISPRS later this week.
by Joe Francica on 06/14 at 12:03 PM |
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A Vietnam map was created with 1,500 students wearing blue uniforms standing on the Nha Trang beach Sunday to mark the start of this year’s Vietnam Sea and Islands Week in the city.
The Paracel and Spratly archipelagoes were included in the breathing map on Nha Trang City’s main square.
A Vietnam map made by 1,500 standing students on the Nha Trang beach on June 5, 2011 (Photo: Tuoi Tre)
The joining students stood hand in hand firmly on the April 2 Square to convey the meaning of Vietnam’s territory.
I wonder if this is educational in any way?
- SGGP
Recently, Fox Valley Technical College students enrolled in Bruce Cecka's Surveying II class helped clarify the park's [Peninsula State Park, WI] infrastructure, including the 40-mile trail system. Forty students spent two days at Peninsula State Park, using a global positioning system to map everything from roads to sewer covers.
- Appleton Post Crescent
Kristin Somerville, 15, also a freshman [at Wausau Engineering & Global Leadership Academy], melded a variety of academic categories into her project. It was an interactive computer map that focused on the German concentration camps of the Holocaust.
She created a program that uses Google maps and allows the user to click on a map of Europe at camp sites to get information about those camps. The user can focus on the details of the camps, or widen the map to look at a larger area.
- Wausau Daily Herald
by Adena Schutzberg on 06/07 at 04:30 AM |
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China
China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping has just been recently renamed as the State Bureau of Geographical Information, Surveying and Mapping, a move which according to Vice Premier Li Keqiang is one of the government’s efforts to support the development of the geographical information sector for the development of the country.
- FutureGov
The Phillipines
National Farmers’ Registry System (NFRS) will be launched in the provinces of Quezon, Leyte, and Bukidnon using Geographic Information System (GIS)
...According to the President, the system will be used for “precision agriculture”, wherein the government will collect information regarding farmers, including crops that they plant so that the government can come up with a comprehensive plan for them.
The pilot once fully expanded will help the government better serve farmers.
- FutureGov
India
Twenty-five per cent of the area in in Orang National Park is “most suitable” for rhinos, That according to a habitat suitability for rhinos by Pranjit Kumar Sarma, a GIS expert of Aaranyak that used satellite imagery of November 2008, was published in International Scholarly Research Network Ecology journal.
- The Telegraph India
Zambia
The new web-site is a new Map of Developments that visitors can see where regeneration and development is taking place in Zambia.
A note on the Google Maps based map notes that funding is not from taxpayers, but from supporters of the president.
- Lusaka Times
Australia
At the CeBIT conference in Sydney this week, the agency’s [Geoscience Australia] Geospatial and Earth Monitoring Division chief, Andrew Barnicoat, said the use of Twitter in the US had shown the potential of the medium to detect such natural disasters.
- Computerworld
by Adena Schutzberg on 06/01 at 03:44 AM |
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After last week's announcement that the company has revised guidance for its second quarter earnings, Trimble Navigation (TRMB) continues to show weakness. On April 29, Trimble reported Q1 earnings of $384 Million, an increase of 20% over Q1 2010. However, according to Stock Market Weekly, the stock was downgraded from "Buy" to "Hold" by Canaccord Genuity. That led the stock to shed nearly 8% to close at $46.84. The stock continued to slide to under $40 but has since rebounded to the $44.00 range today. Since last May at this time, however, the stock has nearly doubled in value.
by Joe Francica on 05/09 at 09:29 AM |
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