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.
Written by Otakar Cerba, Karel Jedlicka and Jan Jezek 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”.
Read more: Cartography in Geomatics Curriculum – The Czech Example
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.
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.
The World Forestry Congress (WFC) took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 18 to 23 October 2009. In this paper, we will set out some of the results and findings. We have attempted to identify a number of trends and to indicate what their significance may be for us as forestry specialists. We have had valuable input from a number of Dutch colleagues who also attended the congress.
