China's home-grown Beidou Navigation Satellite System, aka Compass Navigation System, will be able to provide high-quality services to most users in the Asia-Pacific region this year, an unidentified official from the system's management office said Wednesday. The official said at a seminar held in the southern city of Guangzhou that three satellites will […]
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Best of the Blogs 22/5/2012
Google has removed the tag identifying the Persian Gulf from its popular mapping service, angering the Iranian government. Tehran says it will sue the search giant. ZDNet has the full story. The All Points Blog alerts us that GITA (in the US) has cancelled the Oil and Gas Conference, and stating that “The […]
China launches two more Beidou satellites
China successfully launched two satellites into space for its Beidou global navigation and positioning network, news agency Xinhua has recently reported. The Beidou-2 satellites, launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the south-western province of Sichuan, were lifted into space by a Long March-3B carrier rocket and have entered the scheduled orbit. […]
Best of the Blogs 8 May 2012
The ever-interesting O’Reilly Radar has a great piece on the history of data journalism. If you don’t know what it is, it’s worth a look, but even if you do, you should take a look anyway, as the practice is works hand-in-hand with geospatial data. GIS Café has an overview of GeoEye’s public […]
Position Partners launches AllDayRTK Australia-wide CORS network
Position Partners has launched AllDayRTK, a national network RTK solution across Australia providing flexible, subscription-based services for the surveying, GIS, civil construction, mining and precision farming industries. Additionally, Position Partners is offering all new users a free 30-day trial. AllDayRTK is a Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) network. CORS networks offer a […]
Best of the Blogs 1/5/12
Spatially Adjusted has a post outlining Google’s recent release of a game based on Google Maps, and created using HTML and WebGL. It’s a great example of how far browser-based technologies have come in the last few years. Whether or not you believe in Aliens having made contact on earth, there are many […]
Trimble Acquires Gatewing
Trimble recently announced that it has acquired privately held Gatewing of Gent, Belgium, a provider of lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for photogrammetry and rapid terrain mapping applications. UAVs in combination with photogrammetry are an emerging technology providing an innovative platform for aerial imagery acquisition. UAVs provide users the ability to create orthophotos […]
Best of the Blogs 10 April 2012
For pilots and flight sim fans, the Google Earth Blog have post that highlights an update to a flight simulator that based on Google Earth. This, of course, means that you fly into realistic airports, and over realistic terrain. The Borneo Post have an interesting article wherein villagers in Malaysia are being encouraged […]
National VET e-learning strategy
A pilot project is underway to boost entrants into the spatial information industry and raise skill levels for technicians through greater use of e-learning in the vocational education and training sector. The project has been supported through co-investment of $100,000 from the Australian Government’s National VET E-Learning Strategy, backing over $260,000 in industry […]
WiFi sensors to tackle bushfires
A network of inexpensive fire monitoring sensors positioned throughout bushland could be the latest early-warning system in the fight against fires. Researchers from Edith Cowan University's Centre for Communications Engineering Research (CCER) in Western Australia have taken sensors and equipped them with wireless communication technology. Placed throughout an area of bush, the sensors […]
