A new space centre at Melbourne’s RMIT University will focus on developing low-cost satellite-based remote sensing products. The centre is part of the federal government’s $40m Super Science Initiative, aimed at boosting the Australian economy. The government hopes the centre will help put Australia in a leading position in the study of atmospheric mass […]

  Australia this week hosts a meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in Sydney to discuss developing and implementing new standards for geospatial and location technology. The OGC is an international standards development organisation that aims to make spatial information easily transferable between the geoscience, aviation, meteorology, oceanography and defence sectors. This week, the […]

  IT supplier Fujitsu Indonesia will supply Intergraph’s technologies to the security, defence, intelligence, transportation, photogrammetry, utilities and communications sectors in south-east Asia. Fujitsu Indonesia will market, distribute and implement Intergraph’s security, government and infrastructure (SG&I) solutions in south-east Asia. Intergraph believes there is growing demand for innovative geospatial technology in the south east Asian […]

    Land Information New Zealand has posted a request for tenders for surveying work around Canterbury following the 4 September earthquake. The surveying work will focus on precise levelling of 409 benchmarks. A GNSS survey will also be required on 180 of these benchmarks. The survey will cover most of the Canterbury Plains area. […]

  Microsoft has hired OpenStreetMap founder Steve Coast, the company announced this week. OpenStreetMap was developed by Coast as a kind of Wikipedia for maps – users can edit and make changes to features on the map. So far over 327,000 people have done so. As part of the deal, Microsoft will provide access to […]

  Sokkia has released four new SRX total stations with a new auto-tracking system that includes new motors and driving mechanism, new optics and laser system. The company says the SRX series also has a refined tracking algorithm that enhances the ability to predict future prism positions, enabling more stable tracking and faster prism reacquisition. […]

  The Map Room tells us Google Earth 6 is released in Beta this week. The All Points Blog reports that China has given Google a deadline on mapping. GIS lounge says that taxi drivers are providing more efficient driving directions in a number of ways, and that China’s World Map is upsetting the Vietnamese. […]

    Geoimage has nearly finished processing the latest round of SPOT5 satellite imagery for the New South Wales state government. Geoimage has been contracted by the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW) to orthorectify, colour-balance, mosaic and tile imagery to create one seamless image covering the entire state. The project supports a […]