| April 2007 |
| GIS ILWIS migrates
to open source |
The Integrated Land and Water
Information System (ILWIS, http://
www.itc.nl/ilwis) is a PC-based
GIS & Remote Sensing software,
developed by ITC. The ITC
directorate has recently decided
to make current ILWIS software
free of charge and to migrate it
as such to open source software
under the 52° North initiative.
Leading research organizations in
the ?eld of geoinformatics (ifgi,
conterra, ITC, ESRI) participate
in 52° North’s innovative
development for establishing open
spatial data infrastructures (SDI)
and transformation of these into
practical technological solutions. |
| Vietnam to develop computerised
land management system |
VietNamNet Bridge The World
Bank (WB) has helped Vietnam
train land surveying and technical
mapping managerial staff in
preparation for a project to build a
Land Information System. Capital
for the project will be allocated
from the WB’s Of?cial Assistance
Development. Under the VLAP, a
computerised and easily accessible
land information service system will
be set up with equitable services
for people from all walks of life. |
| Web GIS launched for Rural
Roads of Rajasthan and HP |
The largest ever Rural Road
development project (expected cost
around $26 billion) in India, Pradhan
Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY)
has hosted web GIS for Rajasthan
and Himachal Pradesh to provide
transparency in implementation of in implementation of
this project and providing interactive
spatial information to citizens as
well as of?cials for monitoring and
management of works. Web GIS
software GRIMMS-Web is designed
to run various spatial queries related
with rural road, habitations, work
progress etc and also provides various
GIS functionality. It can be accessed
at http://www.omms.nic.in/grimms
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| Southern Water to prepare
detailed geographic data |
The upgrade to a full corporate GIS
using a single repository of spatial
data has allowed Southern Water to
take maximum advantage of Ordnance
Survey’s range of ?agship mapping
data. The company undertook a major
exercise to improve the quality and
accuracy of its own geographical
data based on the Ordnance Survey
Positional accuracy improvement
(PAI) programme. It has given
Southern Water, which provides water
and sewage services to 4 million
people, enhanced and more consistent
accuracy in the mapping of rural areas
while improving the relationship
between Ordnance Survey 1:2500
scale map data and Southern Water’s
own GPS-positioned information. |
| CenterPoint Energy Selects
ArcGIS Image Server |
Using ESRI’s ArcGIS Image Server,
CenterPoint Energy now bene?ts from
high-performance, on-the-?y image
processing that helps decision making
and boosts productivity. ArcGIS Image
Server provides for rapid deployment
of imagery for multiple simultaneous
users. The application is initially
being used by clients in Minnesota,
but will soon be made available to all
CenterPoint Energy employees in the
seven states it serves. www.esri.com |
| Mumbai Police Implement
Command and Control System |
Mumbai Police, has implemented
the Intergraph Corporation’s
Incident Command and Control
System. The shall serve as the
foundational technology for the security systems of high-value
assets and critical infrastructure
in the public safety, government
and transportation industries. It
will help identify the location of a
?xed line to Dial 100 emergency
call, on a map of Mumbai city.
The system also provides detailed
information of any emergency
event. While the emergency
call details are being registered,
operators can also quickly locate
the nearest police patrol vehicle to
the reported incident site with help
of this location-aware technology.
http://www.intergraph.com/press/ |
| 5 year plan for precise level of the
geoid development plan of Korea |
Korean National Geographic
Information Institute (NGII) announced
the 5 years plan for precise (cm) level
Geoid Development for which the
Institute have established physical
yearly plan as below to build it through
2007 to 2011. FY 2007 Land gravity
survey (1200 points on Bench Mark
Lacoste & Romberg and Scintrex
relative gravimeter) www.moct.go.kr |
| Europe and China collaborate on
monitoring the Earth’s vegetation |
European and Chinese scientists
recently met to discuss issues
relating to monitoring the Earth’s
vegetation by means of multi-angular
hyperspectral remote sensing, in
combination with measurements
of emission of radiation by soil
and vegetation. The proposed
technique makes use of solarre
?ected sunlight, its spectral change
due to various constituents present
in plants in combination with its
directional dependence on canopy
structure. http://www.esa.int/esaLP/
SEMNONO2UXE_index_0.html |
| ICIMOD inaugurated its
country of?ce in Afghanistan |
ICIMOD has inaugurated its country
of?ce in Afghanistan, located at
the Ministry of Agriculture and
Irrigation, Department of Forest,
Kabul. www.icimod.org |
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