February

China’s Ministry of Natural Resources on Tuesday issued the latest standards for the contents of maps, in order to strengthen map management, safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests and promote the healthy development of the geographic information industry. The regulations said that a map of China should always accurately reflect the scope of China’s ...

Department of Science and Technology (DST), the nodal department of Government of India for organizing, coordinating, promoting activities and formulating policies related to science and technology, has announced that they are going to organize a conference titled “Geospatial Policy for National Development” on 21-22 February 2023. The conference is scheduled to be held at Dr. ...

Bluesky Geospatial Ltd. has announced the launch of its MetroVista 3D aerial mapping program in the United States. The service employs a hybrid imaging-LiDAR airborne sensor to capture highly detailed 3D data, including 360-degree views of buildings and street-level features, in urban areas for use in creating digital twins, visualizations, and simulations. Bluesky’s sister company, ...

In 2007, Ecuador’s then-president, Rafael Correa, announced an ambitious plan to prevent oil drilling in Yasuní National Park, one of the world’s most biodiverse areas and home to the Indigenous Waorani people, 4,000 plant species, and 300 mammal species, several of them threatened. Correa called on other countries to help Ecuador keep the area intact, ...

Aerial photos taken high above Rwanda are helping scientists monitor trees and determine how much carbon is locked in the verdant resource. The approach, detailed in a newly published study, revealed that most of the country’s trees lie outside its forests, although conservation and reforestation efforts need to address all ecosystems. Inside or outside forests, ...

FlatGeobuf is a performant binary encoding for geographic data that works well as a “cloud native” lossless format for vector data. 10 February 2023: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is looking to adopt FlatGeobuf as an official OGC Community Standard. Comments are due by March 13, 2023. FlatGeobuf was designed to be: suitable for storing ...

Teledyne Geospatial announced the release of the Galaxy Onboard, a workflow-focused solution that enables airborne surveyors to deliver quality-controlled processed data in real time. With Galaxy Onboard, Teledyne Geospatial has lowered the barrier of entry for organizations venturing into airborne mapping with a solution that does not require expertise or months of training.

The United Kingdom is undertaking reforms in the planning system. Homes and streets from late Victorian and early 20th-century Britain are to be rediscovered and made fit for the 21st century. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, UK, in 2020 published a white paper that outlined geospatial technology and data have an important ...

Prague has an excellent public transit system, but there still are delays. An online map shows the exact location of all public transit vehicles in real time, so you can decide if it is worth waiting or making alternative plans. The function will likely soon be added to the PID Lítačka application. People in Prague ...

Aplikacja powstaje w ramach programu “smart city”. Jak opowiedzieli w trójce Gabriela Szewczuk i Bartosz Wiktorzak z Koła Naukowego z Wydziału Geodezji i Kartografii Politechniki Warszawskiej, pomysł na projekt pojawił się w ich głowach podczas podróży. – Byliśmy w Barcelonie. Podróżowaliśmy z osobą niepełnosprawną. Ogromny kłopot sprawiło nam wtedy znalezienie windy. Studenci stworzyli prototyp aplikacji. ...

El Gobierno de Navarra ha presentado un visor basado en tecnología GIS (Sistema de Información Geográfica, por sus siglas en inglés) que aporta un mapa al detalle con datos y distintas capas que permite conocer el grado de vulnerabilidad edificatoria, social y climática que presentan todos los edificios residenciales de la Comunidad Foral -por antigüedad ...

El ministro de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, Daniel Filmus, firmó un acuerdo para comercializar imágenes satelitales del Saocom en la India y visitó la planta de producción de radioisótopos, en Mumbai, diseñada y construida por la empresa estatal rionegrina, radicada en Bariloche, Invap. Según detalló el Gobierno, en Nueva Delhi, Filmus, en representación de la ...

Los terremotos que asolaron a Nepal entre abril y mayo de 2015 mataron a más de 9.000 personas, dejaron otras 22.000 heridas y afectaron a casi un millón de familias. A los supervivientes les quedó un país bajo escombros y, en las áreas más perjudicadas, alrededor de un millón de personas se quedaron sin agua ...

Başarsoft, Kahramanmaraş depreminde kullanılmak üzere “Depremde Yardım İhtiyaçları Haritalandırma Portalı” kurdu. Portal, depremde yollar ve binaların yıkıldığı, adres tabelalarının kaybolduğu durumlarda koordinata dayalı ulaşım sağlıyor ve yardım ekiplerini yardım istenen enkazlara yönlendiriyor. Depremin ilk anından itibaren Başarsoft Ankara’dan 40 kişilik bir ekip Twitter’a ve diğer sosyal medya ağlarına düşen yardım taleplerini tarayarak adresleri ve talep ...

Çevre, Şehircilik ve İklim Değişikliği Bakanlığı’nca, Kahramanmaraş merkezli depremlerden etkilenen 10 ilde insansız hava aracı (İHA), dron ve Göktürk uydu görüntüleri ile dijital şehir ikizi görüntüleri karşılaştırılarak binalarda ön hasar tespit çalışmalar yürütülüyor. Bakanlıktan yapılan yazılı açıklamada, Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemleri Genel Müdürlüğü koordinasyon merkezinden yürütülen çalışmalar kapsamında 81 ilde tamamlanan 3 boyutlu dijital şehir ikizi ...

Companies from Singapore are collaborating with United Arab Emirates (UAE) firms to develop smart city pilot projects in Abu Dhabi. A total of six companies from the Asia-Pacific country, including Mdesign Solutions, Daily Life Renewable Energy, Biodsg and Graymatics, among others, will work on foetus smart city projects while improving security, citizen productivity and municipal ...

Above the islands of Hawaii on January 28, a green laser was seen piercing the night sky, silently tracing a path towards the horizon like a stutter in the Matrix’s code. The scene was caught on camera from a telescope atop Hawaii’s tallest peak. Originally, experts at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), which ...

Indian Space Research Organisation will be making its second attempt to launch the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle. This second development flight — SSLV-D2 — will be launched from Sriharikota tomorrow at 9.18 a.m. SSLV-D2 will inject three satellites, namely EOS-07, Janus-1 and AzaadiSAT-2 into a 450 kilometre circular orbit during its 15-minute flight. Among the ...

Esri, the global leader in mapping and location intelligence, has now released a new online application, Sentinel-2 Land Cover Explorer. The app is structured around a web-based version of its own high-resolution global land-cover map, derived from European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. The app is easy to access and leverages the same geographic ...

La Biblioteca Digital ‘memoriademadrid’ ha publicado un mapa virtual en el que se pueden visualizar 1.087 tarjetas postales históricas de Madrid, geolocalizadas y referenciadas, procedentes de la colección del Museo de Historia y de las aportadas por la ciudadanía en el marco del proyecto Memoria de los Barrios. Esta herramienta permite observar la evolución de ...

Il progetto europeo Life C-FARMs è giunto alla fase di sperimentazione nelle aziende. Obiettivi di questo programma europeo, di cui Confagricoltura è partner, sono la realizzazione del Sistema Informativo Geospaziale Dimostrativo ad alta risoluzione (GIS-FARMs), che farà identificare il potenziale di mitigazione del settore agricolo della Regione selezionata, la Lombardia; lo sviluppo di un quadro ...

Ein Forschungsteam am Geographischen Institut der Universität Göttingen ist mit dem Teilprojekt „Fernerkundung“ an dem Verbundvorhaben „ResEt-Fi – Wegbereiter Wiederbewaldung: Regionales Flächenmanagement“ beteiligt. Dieser Verbund will Werkzeuge und Konzepte entwickeln, um die Planung und Umsetzung der Wiederbewaldung zu unterstützen. In dem Göttinger Teilprojekt werden in den kommenden drei Jahren Datensätze zur Beschreibung des Mikroklimas und ...

Um levantamento inédito do MapBiomas identificou 2.869 pistas de pouso na Amazônia, segundo a entidade, mais do que o dobro das pistas contidas nos registros da Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (Anac). Pelas coordenadas geográficas, 804 pistas de pouso, ou 28% do total, estão dentro de alguma área protegida: 320 (11%) ficam no interior de ...

Afet Haritası, destek ve kurtarma çalışmaları için yerel yetkililer, STK’lar, şirketler ve gönüllüler gibi çeşitli aktörler arasında etkili iletişim ve koordinasyon sorunlarını çözmeye odaklanıyor. Destek sağlayan tüm aktörleri gerçek zamanlı olarak takip edebilen Afet Haritası, aynı zamanda Türkiye’nin afet bölgelerindeki ihtiyaçları belirlemek ve tedarik etmek için kullanıcıları hızlı bir şekilde harekete geçiriyor. Kısacası Afet Haritası, ...

AlphaRTK, a real-time kinematic (RTK) service provider, announced today it will provide students and faculty of Rutgers University, West Chester University, and Warren County Community College free access to its global navigation satellite system (GNSS) correction network. AlphaRTK is the most affordable, privately held, RTK subscription network to fully support four-constellation GNSS corrections. The service ...

Over the past year, Google Maps has really evolved, offering impressive features, that provide more immersive experiences. Now the firm is taking things to another level, leveraging AI and computer vision to take you places that you never thought possible within Google Maps. While you could previously take an aerial tour of locations, you’ll now ...

India’s Geospatial industry body – the Association of Geospatial Industries (AGI), and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Tirupati’s technology innovation hub – the Navavishkar I-Hub Foundation – have signed a Memorandums of Understanding for collectively elevating the adoption of Geospatial technologies and applications in the country. Under their MoU for innovation-centric cooperation, AGI and ...

The American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing is revising the ASPRS Positional Accuracy Standards for Digital Geospatial Data for publication as a 2nd Edition and we are seeking public opinion on the proposed changes. Revising the standard is an important and necessary process, as technologies and practices are evolving. The updating of these standards ...

During the Open Data Challenge hackathon held in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, more than 200 students, divided into 50 teams, spent three days using geodata to tackle the country’s most relevant issues. The event was organized from 27-29 January 2023 by Uzbekistan IT-Park, Akfa University, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the ...