PAUL GRAD A massive earthquake hit China’s Sichuan Province on 12 May. As aftershocks and landslides threatened further loss of life and property damage, a team from the University of New South Wales joined several other organisations to provide detailed satellite images of the affected area. The earth tremor was of magnitude 8.0 on the […]
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The Future of GNSS
WILLIAM GIBBS At least one possible future for the delivery of high-accuracy services from global navigation satellite systems is becoming clearer as time passes. A large number of networks will be available. They will be operated by private enterprise. Surveyors and others in need of centimetre-level positioning have much to look forward to, although it […]
Inside GEOSS
PARVIZ TARIKHI At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, delegates highlighted the urgency of co-ordinated Earth observation. The following year, the meeting of the Group of Eight leading industrialised countries (the G8) in Evian, France, gave shape to this urgency by setting priorities for Earth observation. These meetings recognised that international […]
