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The Whys of Oblique Imagery

Published April 8, 2008 By Art Kalinski Join the Discussion

An investigation into the nature of perception reveals fascinating details about brain function — and could even earn you some free beer. By Art Kalinksi About eight months ago, I was attending a conference in Philadelphia. Right after lunch, I went to my room and turned on the TV to check the news; that’s when […]

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Survey Perspectives – Early April 2008

Published April 3, 2008 By Eric Gakstatter Join the Discussion

The use of GPS and GNSS technology for precision agriculture hasn't changed much in years. But lately, supplemental technology has been showing up more frequently down on the farm.

Europe Takes Closer Look at Navteq/Nokia Merger

Published March 28, 2008 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion

While European regulatory authorities are closely scrutinizing the proposed TomTom/Tele Atlas merger, they have also turned their eyes to the proposed Navteq/Nokia deal.

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Global Trek Xploration, Deeas Resources Enter Merger

Published March 21, 2008 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion

Global Trek Xploration, a provider of embedded miniaturized GPS technologies, has completed a share exchange transaction merger with Deeas Resources Inc.

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Survey Perspectives – Late March 2008

Published March 19, 2008 By Eric Gakstatter Join the Discussion

I covered this subject a while back, but I think it's time to revisit it. Personal navigation devices (PNDs) are still selling like crazy. If you don't have one, someone you know does. Tens of millions of these things are being sold per year.

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The 2008 ESRI Federal User Conference

Published March 17, 2008 By Art Kalinski Join the Discussion

By Art Kalinski, GISP Several weeks ago, I attended the ESRI Federal User Conference, held February 20-22 in Washington, D.C. I wish I could report on some earthshaking new technology that is going to change everything, but as with most mature technologies, what I saw were mostly refinements of existing technologies such as ArcGIS 9.3. […]

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Survey Perspectives – Early March 2008

Published March 5, 2008 By Eric Gakstatter Join the Discussion

There has been a lot of activity on both the civilian and military sides of GPS/GNSS these past few weeks. Instead of a central theme to this newsletter, I'm going to comment on three points of interest: a DoD directive regarding position, navigation, and timing; PRN32; and some new product developments.

GLONASS Opinions

Expert Advice: GLONASS Business Prospects

Published March 1, 2008 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion

Similar in many aspects to GPS, GLONASS has performed much less successfully on a commercial scale, failing - so far - to create significant business worldwide. Today, however, the commercialization of GLONASS has taken a new and more promising direction, receiving strong encouragement from the Russian government. We look forward to GLONASS being completely restored to its full operational capabilities within the next few years, and we are certain that this time GLONASS will create successful business opportunities worldwide.

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Survey Perspectives – Late February 2008

Published February 21, 2008 By Eric Gakstatter Join the Discussion

With nearly 60 GPS engineers and scientists, the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) is one of the biggest GPS R&D centers in the world today. It operates as a division of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), which manages the lab for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

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Survey Perspectives – Early February 2008

Published February 7, 2008 By Eric Gakstatter Join the Discussion

It appears the US Department of Transportation has bought the Nationwide Differential GPS system (NDGPS) another year. The FY09 Presidential Budget Request was released earlier this week, and it contains a line item in the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) budget for NDGPS in the amount of $4.6M for operations and maintenance of the current system until October 2009. There is no budget item for the planned build-out of NDGPS. The budget request is subject to approval by Congress, but most likely this will go through.