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GMES Responds to Darfur Crisis

The Global Monitoring for the Environment and Security initiative (GMES) is setting up a number of services. Humanitarian aid is recognised as one of the main areas where GMES can...

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A Spatial Turn in History

Geography and history are sister disciplines. In fact, geography as a field of scientific research evolved from the study of history. Whereas geographers have the perspective of space, historians consider...

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GPS: Position, Time and Distance

Receiver position is calculated from the position of satellites and the distances to them. Distance is calculated from the time a radio signal travels between satellite and receiver. But how...

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Digital Earth Facing Challenges

The 4th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE) was held in Tokyo, Japan from 28th to 31st March 2005 with the theme ‘Digital Earth as Global Commons’. The more than...

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Scalable Vector Graphics

The internet has created tremendous potential for the dissemination of geo-information for decision making. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an Open Source technology that can be efficiently used by the...

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Launch of The ASPRS Foundation, Inc.

The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) has launched the ASPRS Foundation, Inc., an independently registered entity that will raise, invest, and grant funds to the ASPRS Awards...

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RADARSAT-2 To Be Launched in 2005

RADARSAT-2, Canada’s second Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Earth observation satellite will offer users imaging flexibility and increased data information content, ensuring continuity of all existing RADARSAT-1 beam modes along with...

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