Nokia and Yahoo are teaming up to provide navigation, mapping, email and instant messaging services on a global basis. Nokia’s Ovi Maps will become the exclusive provider of Yahoo Maps and navigation services and Yahoo will provide Ovi mail and chat services on Nokia handsets as a result of a new partnership. The […]
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European Satellite Navigation Competition 2010
The European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) is underway. The annual contest provides innovators with opportunities to develop ideas for new products and services based on satellite positioning. The prizes for the international contest include C– 1 million (about $1.4 million) in funding and start-up assistance. This year’s competition also includes six special topic prizes from […]
Applanix POSTrack 3.0
Applanix has released version 3.0 of POSTrack, its direct geo-referencing and flight management system. This version incorporates a worldwide ASTER digital elevation model product for flight planning. The DEM automatically determines an aircraft’s optimal flight path to best meet image acquisition requirements – such as photo scale, ground sample distance and image overlap. […]
Virtual Brisbane for 3D City Planning
JONATHON POWERS The world of 3D visualisation is rapidly maturing, at least in applications designed for city planning. This is not so much about the model itself. Practical 3D modelling capability has been around for the best part of two decades. Rather, it’s about the interfaces that now exist between GIS and visualisation, and the […]
Mapping the Ocean Floor
JON FAIRALL It’s a truism that the surfaces of Mars and the Moon are better mapped that the surface of the Earth. Three-quarters of our globe is covered by a layer of water several kilometres thick. Mapping through the murk is difficult and expensive. However, the news is not all bad. New technologies are making […]
Surveying the North Pole
JON FAIRALL Australians may still be locked into a grand debate between climate change sceptics and Greenies, but the polar bears are in no doubt. Neither are the world's oil companies. As the Arctic ice sheet collapses, the bears are heading south into the steaming heat of the Canadian steppes and the oil prospectors are […]
Precision Agriculture: A Success Story
DEREK TICKNER Last year, the Grains Research and Development Corporation and CSIRO released the results of a study of six farms that use information technology. The report was entitled, The Economic Benefits of Precision Agriculture: Case Studies From Australian Grain Farms. The project was led by Michael Robertson from CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems in Western Australia. […]
Choosing an Airborne Laser Scanner
WAL MAYR Airborne laser scanning is a relatively recent technology that has revolutionised the capture of terrain information. It involves the emission and measurement of laser pulses from an airborne scanner. Until recently, it was mainly used to capture large areas of relatively low-resolution digital terrain data. However, in the past few years a range […]
Re-Aligning the Cadastre
Bundaberg is located at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef in the heart of a rich sugar and horticultural belt. The name is well known – it is the home of the famous Bundaberg Rum. Just four hours drive north from Brisbane, the city is home to 46,000 people. It services 120,000 […]
Rebuilding Aceh Post-Tsunami
JON FAIRALL On 26 December 2004, a devastating tsunami, triggered by the Great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, hit Banda Aceh. The wave killed more than 186,000 people in Aceh, but the UN puts the overall casualty count at 229,866. Indonesian government figures cite 513,278 refugees in the weeks following the disaster. Whatever the final toll, it was […]
