Researchers in the UK are using a Google Android phone to create the first ever satellite powered by a smart phone. The 11.8-inch satellite Surrey Training Research and Nanosatellite Demonstrator (STRAND-1 ) will be launched into lower-earth orbit to take pictures of Earth on a mission later this year. Researchers from the University of Surrey […]

  Efforts to protect consumers' privacy on the internet are likely to heavily impact companies that collect, use or distribute geo-location data, according to the Management Association for Professional Photogrammetric Surveyors. A number of initiatives in Washington, including a privacy protection bill, the "Best Practices Act of 2010," are looking to protect data about users, […]

Intermap Technologies CEO Todd Oseth   Intermap Technologies has received a USD 12.4m contract to provide 3D digital elevation models and orthorectified radar images as part of the US National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) program to update an unnamed client’s current 1:50,000-scale base map. Intermap will begin collecting the data in January 2011 via interferometric […]

AAM remains a reseller business partner of imagery firm Geoeye in Australia, despite Geoeye’s new agreement with Fugro. Last week Spatial Source reported  that Fugro has acquired rights to sell, value-add and distribute GeoEye-1 and IKONOS high-resolution satellite imagery products as GeoEye’s official partner in the Asia-Pacific region. This raised some questions over how the […]

Any user in Australia can now personally update Google Maps to ensure they are more accurate. For some time Google has enabled users in the United States and Canada to offer improvements and updates to its maps. That service will now be extended to users in Australia and nine other countries. The news comes as […]

Geoscience Australia is to undertake a mapping project to understand the potential of Australia to generate solar power. The project will chart the levels of solar radiation across Australia to establish which areas of the continent are most suited to the development of large-scale solar power stations over the long term. In a release Geoscience […]

  Scientists in New Zealand are using new techniques to interpret the history of undersea earthquakes occurring on major fault lines around New Zealand. The researchers are using acoustic soundings to analyse the history of undersea fault’s activity. Investigation of faults on land and what they reveal about their earthquake history is an established discipline, […]

  Geospatial analysis has helped reveal new information on how best to improve mosquito control efforts in the Northern Territory, according to a new study. The joint study by researchers from Charles Darwin University and the Centre for Disease Control monitored the spraying of the habitats of the northern salt marsh mosquito in coastal wetlands […]