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YOUR GEOSPATIAL INDUSTRY MAGAZINE RNI No INR 150 / US$ 15 Not for Sale Subscriber’s copy. : e c i r P YOUR GEOSPATIAL INDUSTRY MAGAZINE www.geospatialworld.net MARCH 2011 VOL 01 ISSUE 08 R.N.I No - UPENG/2010/34153 PUBLICATION COLLECT SHARE DELIVER 742 Square Miles, 720 Images, 10 Machines, 48 Hours, 3.8 Billion Terrain Points. Automatically Generated Point Cloud in LPS eATE Distribute your processing and maximize your resources. Do you need to process massive imagery datasets quickly? ERDAS empowers you to quickly and completely process your data, reducing your overhead costs: Distributed ProcessingHQDEOHVMREVWREHHIÀFLHQWO\DOORFDWHGWKURXJKWKHHQKDQFHG batch tool in ERDAS IMAGINE 2011 and LPS 2011. We leverage an organization’s available KDUGZDUHUHVRXUFHVLQFUHDVLQJSURGXFWLRQWKURXJKSXWWRÀQLVKWDVNVLQOHVVWLPH ERDAS Engine is a new offering, enabling ERDAS desktop products to run multiple processes simultaneously for surges in production needs or situations requiring faster throughput. 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Prashant Shukle, Director General, Mapping Information Branch, Earth Sciences Sector, Natural Resources Canada Shailesh Nayak Secretary Ministry of Earth Sciences CONFERENCE REPORT Government of India 51 GTUS 2011: Tech for all Vanessa Lawrence CB Director General and CEO, Ordnance Survey, UK 07 Editorial 8 News 52 Events 54 Picture This CHAIRMAN M P Narayanan DISCLAIMER PUBLISHER Sanjay Kumar Geospatial World does not necessarily subscribe to the views expressed in the publication. All views expressed in this issue are PUBLICATIONS TEAM Managing Editor Prof. Arup Dasgupta those of the contributors. Geospatial World is not responsible for any Editor - Europe Prof. Ian Dowman loss to anyone due to the information provided. Editor - North America Chuck Killpack OWNER, PUBLISHER & PRINTER Sanjay Kumar PRINTING AT Editor - Latin America (Honorary) Tania Maria Sausen Sr. Associate Editor (Honorary) Dr. Hrishikesh Samant M. P. 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Speak friend, teaching remote sensing and GIS in an r A engineering college, invited me to deliver a lec- o ture on 'Remote Sensing Applications - Industry t Perspective' to his students. His reasoning was that i being attached to industry, I could give a practical view as opposed to the bookish view. As I began preparing d for the talk, I realised that there was a fundamental E flaw in the title. It was not possible to isolate remote sensing from other technologies if I was to address applications of a practical nature. For example, if I tried to illustrate the use of high resolution data for land records, I could not ignore differential GPS which would give me the data to correctly register the plot boundaries to the imagery. Again, the use of imagery for precision farming and agri-business has to include GPS, GIS and data related to prices, inflation and oth- er economic factors. In fact remote sensing is only one of the data sources, an important one though not the only one. Prof. Arup Dasgupta Managing Editor Imagery becomes the starting point. To this we have to [email protected] add value by extracting information required for the end user. To enable more people to be able to use satellite imagery, satellite data providers are moving access. More importantly it will be available in a form from selling imagery to providing information and required by the user. Thus, a user needing the NDVI of insight to customers. This has tremendous impact in a particular area will be directly served the NDVI many ways. Data buyers are aware of the storage image and not the multiple band imagery. I believe issues. Back in the 80's, data used to come in tapes this will be a great boon to users who currently spend and it was a daunting task to ensure their longevity by a considerable amount of time, energy and money just storing them in climate controlled environments. CDs managing data, leaving little time for data analysis. and DVDs have brought great relief to this situation Such a change will also impact the data producers but have only changed the dimensions of the problem. who till now have been working on a product price With spatial resolutions likely to drop to 25 cm on one model as they will have to migrate to a value added hand and spectral resolutions and thereby spectral access price model. bands increasing with the advent of hyperspectral imagery on the other, the problem multiplies by Where does this leave our regulators? All current reg- orders of magnitude. As the lead article on hyperspec- ulations are based on data resolution and national tral remote sensing shows, the technology is ham- jurisdiction. The shift to an access based model will pered by cost of data and the complexity of data analy- upset all their rules. I may be denied terrain height as sis. data but what if I can order an image draped on a DEM? Undoubtedly the regulators will catch on and by This calls for a radical change in the way we perceive and by catch up; but by the time they do, technology data usage. Instead of buying and owning data we would have advanced to another level. have to shift to a model of using data. Data will exist somewhere, in a Cloud may be, and be available for Geospatial World I March 2011 7 NEWS GHANA Aquaculture gets boost ETHIOPIA With an aim to boost aquacul- Modernising land ture industry, Ghana is consid- registration system ering to use GIS consisting of an analytical mapping of fish Impressed with Rwanda's land regis- farming sites with high poten- tration system, Tigistu G. Abza, the tial. The United Nations (UN) Ethiopian Director of Rural Land Food and Agriculture Organi- Administration, announced that sation (FAO), under its Techni- Ethiopia would adapt the same. He cal Cooperation Programme said “Ethiopia is still using rope for (TCP), is supporting the Fisheries Commission with a grant worth USD measurements, a traditional method 85,130, which will go towards applying a strategic framework. Called the of registering land. World Bank rec- National Aquaculture Development Plan, the new framework corre- ommended us to learn Rwanda's sponds with the National Medium Term Development Plan, the National system. It is efficient and cheap as Medium Term Development Framwork and the Fisheries Act 625, 2002. well.” He added that surveying cost with the new system will be USD 7 per plot of the land.
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