GEO: connexion

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Articles in June, 2007 issue of GEO: connexion

• Spatial awareness: businesses rely on location-based information, underpinned by advanced GIS functionality.
  by Longhorn, Roger
• Smarter portal.(REVEALED)
• Geodetic Reference Frames support further development and support infrastructure.(GEODESY IN AFRICA)
• Complete RTK.
• Sweden underground: the city tunnel in Malmo is one of the largest infrastructure construction projects in Sweden today. When complete, it will link the railways north and east of Malmo, Sweden's third largest city, with the sound link (oresund bridge) to
• GPS / GIS.(GALILEO SPEAKS)
• VR System.(SECURITY)
• Construction tablet.(TOTAL STATION IMAGING)
• Future landscapes: Katy Appleton describes the creation of a set of landscape visualisations used for determining possible future landscape development in the Norfolk Broads area of the United Kingdom.
  by Appleton, Katy
• Quality in Africa: in the second of a 3-part series, Sina Ayanlade explores the question of data quality in Sub-Saharan Africa and the roles of metadata and the Global Positioning System.
  by Ayanlade, Sina
• Gumball rally.
• 3D measurement.
• Software grants.(GEODESY IN AFRICA)
• Acquired.
• The server revolution: Kees van Loo explains why server-based GIS will change the industry for the better.
  by van Loo, Kees
• New laser scanner.(GALILEO SPEAKS)
• How do you move all kinds of data through all kinds of different systems? One company knows ...(SECURITY)
• Digital imagery is making its debut into surveying equipment and related workflows.(TOTAL STATION IMAGING)
• Software donation.
• Open sources: OSSIM is one of the founding projects of the open source geospatial foundation (OSGeo). It is an open source, cross platform software distribution for high performance remote sensing and photogrammetry.
  by Lucas, Mark
• Serve me images.(REVEALED)
• Free plugin.
• Go mobile.(TOTAL STATION IMAGING)
• A walk in the park: students at HSR University of Applied Science at Rapperswil in Switzerland are learning to develop, create and visualise engineering projects with new tools.
• Bentley be conference 2007, Los Angeles, California: the annual Bentley be conference was held April 29 - May 3 at the Los Angeles convention center. With 3000 guests in attendance and following the evening welcome reception, the Plenary session began wit
  by Thurston, Jeff
• PDF documents are becoming more collaborative and increasing sharing.(REVEALED)
• Route Server.
• Geomatica 10.1.(TOTAL STATION IMAGING)
• Paper to digital - part 2: in the May issue we discussed the objectives behind the creation of a new Digital Mapping System for the Property Registration Authority (PRA) in Ireland. This final installment details how this was achieved; the technology behi
  by Stickler, Graham
• Defence: SOA in SDI: Roger Brackin discusses the challenges of implementing defence Spatial Data Infrastructures.
  by Brackin, Roger
• USGS portal.
• Building on the well known IDRISI product, ArcGIS tools add change functionality.(LAND CHANGE MODELER)
• Water quality tool.(GEODESY IN AFRICA)
• Stock Watch: a short summary of recent stock market events and emerging GI related business information.
• Training GIS professionals: Mircea Badut outlines and discusses some of the issues surrounding the education of GIS professionals and the challenges of meeting this goal.
  by Badut, Mircea
• Open Africa.(GALILEO SPEAKS)
• Google gets graphic.(SECURITY)
• Design Review.(TOTAL STATION IMAGING)
• Outage management: Robert Klarner explains how GIS is being used for outage and crisis management at the Pfalzwerke in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
  by Klarner, Robert
• Galileo simulation: the Galileo System Simulation Facility (GSSF) provides a simulation environment that reproduces the functional and performance behavior of the Galileo system to develop simulation applications to ensure the integrity of products and se
• The first signals from Galileo look promising for the European mission.(GALILEO SPEAKS)
• Training offered.
• 39MegaPixels.
• Awards of Excellence.
• Data without a net: internet map servers are common these days. Recent experiences have shown, however, that situations exist where geodata need to be distributed without them.
  by Kunzel, Wieland
• 3D machine control.(GALILEO SPEAKS)
• GIS for electric.
• Earlier imagery.
• Appointed.
• Geographic Learning: students and others are learning Geography today through a wide range of methodologies and technologies. In the second of a two-part article, Josef Strobl describes the links between the technologies and learning.
  by Strobl, Josef