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NovAtel Announces SPAN-CPT GPS/INS Receiver

posted by Satri on Tuesday May 13, @07:35PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the you-receive-what-you-give- dept.
GPS
Canal Geomatics writes "At the IEE/ION PLANS 2008 tradeshow in Monterey California last week, NovAtel announced the launch of NovAtel SPAN-CPT, a powerful single enclosure, tightly-coupled GPS/INS receiver.

SPAN-CPT integrates NovAtel's OEMV GNSS precision receiver technology with fiber optic gyro and MEMS accelerometer inertial components from KVH Industries in one compact unit. The tight-coupling of the GPS and INS technologies within SPAN-CPT optimizes the raw GPS and IMU data, delivering a superior position, velocity and attitude solution. Comprised entirely of commercial components, SPAN-CPT has no special export restrictions, minimizing the operational complexities for customers whose products cross international boundaries.

NovAtel expects to begin production of SPAN-CPT in July, 2008."

Industry: China to Regulate Internet Map Publishing

posted by Satri on Tuesday May 13, @11:19AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the when-maps-are-uninvited dept.
Governments
Slashdot discuss a story named China to Regulate Internet Map Publishing. We discussed the censure of maps in China on many occasions, see related stories below. Ogle Earth provides an AFP article on the new China efforts to bring down illegal maps. Spatial Sustain links to a China Popular Computer Week article translation. The Slashdot summary: "After text, pictures, and videos, China starts regulating Internet map publishing (here is the google translation.) The government believes that Internet maps can represent the state's sovereignty and its political and diplomatic positions in the international community — and consequently, inaccurate maps could harm national interests and dignity, produce bad political influences, reveal national secrete and harm national security, in addition to harming consumer interests. So from now on, publishing maps would require approval and (yet another) license from the state survey bureau. That means Google, Yahoo, etc., need to remove China from the map; or maybe they just pay up some officials and their agents to acquire yet another license. And our newest 80Gbps DPI monsters need to be upgraded to identify maps together with porn."

Industry: StreetView Face Blurring

posted by lxnyce on Tuesday May 13, @08:11AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the you-can't-see-me dept.
Google
The What is special about geospatial blog reports about this new Google endeavor. From their summary : Google has recently updated their StreetView data in Manhatten. Biside some improvemetns in image quality, Google has implemented some automatic face-blurring technology. Form the screenshot you can see that it does work really nice. It blurs the faces, but doesn’t detract too much from the imagery.
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For a more detailed explanation of why this is occurring, please visit the blog link above.

Industry: WorldWide Telescope Released

posted by lxnyce on Tuesday May 13, @08:03AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the true-rumors dept.
Microsoft
As the Digital Earth Blog and Ogle Earth blog is reporting this morning, a beta version of WorldWide telescope has been released. You can grab the download directly from the MicroSoft site http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/. For more information and preliminary reviews, please visit the blog links above.

ERDAS TITAN: not P2P but Close

posted by Satri on Monday May 12, @04:30PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the more-than-P-and-more-than-2 dept.
Data Sharing
Amy writes "Is ERDAS TITAN built on a peer to peer (P2P) network technology? Not today. Although the ERDAS TITAN user’s experience resembles a Peer to Peer (P2P) network experience (sharing, discovering, accessing data within a network of users), by definition it is not. In ERDAS TITAN, clients rely on a proxy server – an ERDAS TITAN GeoHub — as a middleman for all communication, indexing, access and data streaming. In a P2P network clients interact directly with one another in some fashion, for activities like communication, data access and download. GeoHubs process requests, index, stream and cache data, but do not host any data. Instead, data is maintained locally and the GeoHub acts as a relay mechanism, processing requests and streaming data between users. This inherently is an added security feature, as the GeoHub is able to manage the channels between users. Also to note, ERDAS TITAN has no true download capability (besides the sharing of KMLs) and instead advances the notion of streaming data as a service to clients through GeoHubs. Future plans for TITAN include enabling *optional* download capabilities and also P2P sharing for GeoHubs." Some TITAN previous stories below.

Cosmo-Skymed & TerraSAR-X in response to Myanmar

posted by gignacnic on Monday May 12, @12:55PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the Help-Map-Human dept.
Satellites & sensors
To follow up on the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar there are two organisations that have published Earth Observation data on their web site: ITHACA and DLR.

Industry: WorldWind JavaOne Roundup

posted by lxnyce on Monday May 12, @11:03AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the i-love-summaries dept.
NASA
A lot of World Wind news came out of the JavaOne conference last week, so I am going to summarize those here for one quick and easy source.
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