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The Need to Monitor the Performance of GNSS Saturday, 06 February 2010 14:53 Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) technologies are now universally regarded as critical elements within modern transport, energy and communications infrastructures. However, GNSS is also vulnerable to faults and failures at system, signal and service levels which can severely impact the service and degrade performance.      
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Cartography in Geomatics Curriculum – The Czech Example Thursday, 28 January 2010 10:25 Cartography and geomatics are rapidly changing. These changes are impacting the needs for a highly trained and capable workforce. Education is attempting to adapt and to provide a solution to these demanding and changing circumstances. Education professionals in the Czech Republic have developed a unique geomatics curriculum on themes related to “the relation of cartography and geomatics” and “the content of cartographic courses and its update”.      
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Luanda Bay Initiative To Revive Angolan Seaport Saturday, 23 January 2010 13:25 As the chief seaport and capital city of Angola, Luanda is undergoing major reconstruction with the development of infrastructure projects that include new public housing, highways, and business and commercial space. The African nation was ravaged by 27 years of civil war before a cease fire was reached in 2002, and the Angolan government has since looked to the private sector to help rebuild the country’s center of commerce.
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GIS Puts Culver City Sewer Maps in their Place Monday, 18 January 2010 02:42 Like a lot of small towns, the effects of time and growth compromised Culver City’s public works data, especially the city sewer system. In 2007, a committed collaboration between the Public Works Department  and the Culver City Information Technology Department began to update citywide sewer maps. The redevelopment of the sewer data is ongoing using geographic information system (GIS) technology from ESRI.
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Perspectives

  • Is 3D GIS About to Revolutionize Visualization? The devel­op­ment and release of 3D GIS is a major step for­ward into the future. It will undoubt­edly cause a stir, sev­eral peo­ple to scratch their heads and unleash a wave of new think­ing that we have not expe­ri­enced in the geo­com­mu­nity...
  • What can be learned from the volunteer mapping efforts for Haiti? The unfolding events in Haiti have underscored the fact that accessibility to map making tools and open spatial data can make anyone a mapmaker. Mapping is an activity that provides a tangible means for concerned citizens to reach out and help make...
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3D Visualization - A Convergence of LiDAR, Photogrammetry and Imaging

New tools and products are emerging in the LiDAR, photogrammetry and satellite imaging fields today as 3D environments and 3D city modeling gain wider acceptance. These are impacting work related to digital surfaces, object extraction - recognition and leading to additional research and applications. Sweden based Håkan Wiman has been centrally involved in this...

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Open Geospatial Tools Expand Their Niche

Paul Ramsey has been an open geospatial advocate for some time and is deeply involved in PostGIS and MapServer development and project consulting. Paul was the keynote speaker at last year’s Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference (FOSS4G), and teaches many workshops to help others develop solutions with this technology. He works for OpenGeo,...

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UK AGI - Building the GeoCommunity

The Association of Geographic Information (AGI) in the United Kingdom recently elected a new Chair. Andrew Coote brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the position. AGI has been successful in promoting the use and application of geoinformation and geotechnologies across the country in recent times. The UK GI community is filled with discussion, debate...

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Digital Cities, SDI and the GeoWeb

When a domain is relatively new, the terminology is often imprecise, and many different words many be coined and used by different organizations and individuals with none of them realizing that they are talking about essentially the same thing. This is substantially true for the use of Digital City and SDI as applied to urban environments.

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Planning for Sustainability

Good planning is critical to achieving sustainability. The success of international, national, regional, and organizational plans for climate resiliency, energy management, supply chain optimization, facility management, and transportation efficiency depend on a defined purpose, need, and process to achieve sustainable performance.

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Can the GIS-Community Build a Pyramid on the Moon?

If all the world's best GIS-minds were brought together and put in a room (with plenty of CocaCola and pizza supply), what could happen? Could they construct 'a pyramid with a pumping heart on the moon'? Could they construct something that would stand for another 5000 years (as the pyramids)? Could they construct something that definitely would change the direction...

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Book Reviews

  • Land Administration for Sustainable Development Land administration plays a unique role in solving sustainability issues. It involves an integrated approach that includes several common factors that can be applied around the world,...
  • Rethinking Maps Today the discussion surrounding maps and cartography is growing. The Internet is allowing more people in different places to experience map use digitally through a wide variety of devices. This use...
  • Geo-Communication and Information Design Lars Brodersen has written a book that describes what geocomunucation means and what it involves. In his view, geocommunication is much different than cartography alone. It includes a wealth of...
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  • German Minister Takes on Google Street View DER SPIEGEL - Many in Berlin have long viewed Google's Street View service with some suspicion. Now, Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner has called for better privacy laws. She says that even intelligence agencies wouldn't "collect photos so unabashedly."...
  • Free Liverpool Office Space for Business Investors ENGLAND NORTHWEST - A new property scheme is providing overseas businesses with more incentive than ever to set up a base in the Northwest. Under the 'Hello Northwest' scheme, overseas companies can get free desk space in serviced accommodation for the...
  • How Clean Is the Air in Germany? GERMAN ENV - The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has assessed air quality for the year  2009 based on interim data, and arrived at the following conclusion: at 55 percent of air measuring stations placed in urban areas in the vicinity of traffic, annual...
  • Sands Shifting for Africa's Nomadic Herders MAIL & GUARDIAN SA - Nomadic herders who move their cattle ceaselessly across some of the harshest environments in the world in search of grazing land are vital for Africa's economic prosperity, but their way of life is being undermined by governments,...
  • S Korea to Spend Over $340 mln on IT Training XINHUA -  South Korea will spend 401.1 billion won (342.76 million U.S. dollars) on training highly-skilled technicians in the information technology (IT) sector by 2013, the government said Monday. The Ministry of Knowledge Economy said the new plan...
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