A leading water management adviser in Australia has said that the use of mapping and surveying technology is crucial to help the country protect itself against frequent severe floods, reports Doug Murphy of SurveyEquipment.com. Georgina Race, spatial analyst at Flood Prevention Experts, told an audience of 200 spatial professionals in Melbourne that GIS technology must become integral flooding event preparation... read more
New technology from product development firm Cambridge Consultants can accurately detect someone’s location indoors when GPS drops out. A number of sensors and a custom algorithm determine the location, with an accuracy of within approximately 1 percent of the distance traveled. The technology uses low-power, low-cost sensors and the device concept is small enough to clip on a belt. It... read more
Broadcast Date: Thursday, March 7, 2013 Speaker: Steve Fossi, Director of New Business Development, Symmetricom Panelist: Ravi Pragasam, Marketing Manager, Embedded Solutions, Symmetricom Webinar Topic/Abstract: Precision timekeeping with all the benefits of Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) – Quantum(tm) SA.45c Chip Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC) Atomic clocks have enabled a world where ultra-precise timekeeping is now mandatory for communications, navigation,... read more
By Art Kalinksi Three weeks ago I had a chance to visit the offices of TerraGo Technologies in Atlanta. I first used their technology in the early 2000s, when I was the GIS manager for the Atlanta Regional Commission. For those of you that may not remember GIS and mapping before GeoPDF maps, it was a real challenge to provide... read more
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