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RADARSAT-2 To Be Launched in 2005

RADARSAT-2, Canada’s second Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Earth observation satellite will offer users imaging flexibility and increased data information content, ensuring continuity of all existing RADARSAT-1 beam modes along with...

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An IFSAR Quality Management System

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) is emerging as a highly cost-effective 3D mapping technology. Digital elevation models and ortho-rectified radar imagery are core commercial Intermap Technologies products using its airborne...

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Web-enabled GIS in Disaster Management

Increasingly frequent disasters with attendant damage have heightened climate change related environmental and social vulnerability, emphasising the need for tools to support disaster management. In South Africa a National Disaster...

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Lidar-based Survey Solutions

Optech Incorporated focuses on the development, manufacture and support of advanced, lidar-based survey solutions. Established in 1974 as a privately held, Canadian-owned research and development firm, Optech was originally an...

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Key Role for GIS in Developing Africa

Around six hundred participants attended the fifth conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) held in Nairobi, Kenya from 17th to 22nd October 2004. The...

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An Africa-led Initiative for Africa

The internationally supported African initiative Africa Reference Framework project (AFREF) aims at using GNSS to unify the coordinate reference systems within Africa to produce a uniform and consistent coordinate system...

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Development of the ILRIS-36D

The ILRIS-3D laser scanner was launched in 1999 as a measuring system for 3D-point cloud collection. In October 2004 Optech launched its second-generation, tripod-mounted laser scanner, the ILRIS-36D. But getting...

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