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Scale and Level of Detail

Since mankind exchanged his hunting and gathering existence for a life of land cultivation, enabling him to settle permanently on one spot, he has felt a need to portray the...

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Symposia in Germany

Early autumn this year saw two ISPRS Commissions, III and V, holding their quadrennial symposia, both in Germany; Commission III gathered in Bonn and Commission V in Dresden. Photogrammetric Vision...

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Good Governance, Good Geo-info

Where just two decades ago spatial data was mainly carried on paper maps, map and three-dimensional topographic data is now accessible via Google Earth. Where accurate positioning was once the...

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NovAtel Supplies Indian GAGAN Program

NovAtel (Canada) has received an order for additional Space Based Augmentation System (SBAS) equipment from Raytheon Company (MA, USA) in support of the Indian Geostationary Earth Orbit Augmented Navigation (GAGAN)...

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Disaster Response Starts with a Map

Natural disaster can be defined as any occurrence causing decay of usability and productivity of land and structures built upon it, and injury or loss of human life. Disasters also...

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Towards Geodata-based Communities

Rapidly evolving technologies such as Web services transform the former digital-map toolbox for specialists into a challenging digital peep-box for everyone. Introduced in 2005, Google Earth is one of the...

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Calibrating Survey Instruments

The geomatics profession is implicated in several ISO standards. The important ISO9001: 2000 prescribes regular instrument testing and calibration. To help meet required stringent alignment tolerances, a modern calibration bench...

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Leap Forward

One of the main topics discussed at the Survey and GIS Summit preceding the ESRI User Conference 2006 (see my report in the October issue) was the reluctance of youngsters...

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Geomatics at TU Delft

Collecting, processing, managing and distributing information and transforming it into relevant support for decision making constitutes the nerve system of society at local, regional, national and global scale. Of increasing...

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ICA Page: Visualising Cartography

Reading these columns you must have noticed by now that the International Cartographic Association (ICA) has many different faces when it comes to maps - not so strange if you...

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