Donghyun Kim is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering at the University of New Brunswick (UNB), where he has been developing a new on-the-fly (OTF) ambiguity resolution technique for long baselines. He received a B.Sc., M.S. and Ph.D. from Seoul National University. He has been involved in GPS research since 1991 and is a member of the IAG Special Study G...

Martin S. H. Ma is a Master of Science candidate in the Position, Location and Navigation (PLAN) group at the Department of Geomatics Engineering in the University of Calgary. He received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2001 and had since been a DSP engineer at companies like Philips Semiconductors and SiRF Technology. His current researc...

Liza S. Comita*, Maria Uriarte, Jill Thompson†, Inge Jonckheere, Charles D. Canham and Jess K. Zimmerman Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027, USA; Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies, Universidad de Puerto Rico, PO Box 21910, San Juan, PR 00931-3341, USA; Biosystems Department, Geomatics Group, Katholieke ...

Zhouzheng Gao 1,2,3, Wenbin Shen 1, Hongping Zhang 2,*, Maorong Ge 3 and Xiaoji Niu 2 1 School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China; [email protected] (Z.G.); [email protected] (W.S.) 2 GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China; [email protected] 3 German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Telegrafenberg, ...

This paper aims to introduce and discuss six challenges and issues facing the development of SDIs which will be able to meet the sustainable development objectives of society. These issues and challenges include: SDI to facilitate spatially enabled government Role of government, private and academic sectors Development of SDI vision, mission and road map – where are we heading? SDI to facilitat...

The Precision Agriculture primarily involves the use of geospatial technology to map the spatial changes in plant and soil conditions of crops and their correlation with agricultural inputs such as water, fertilizer, etc., at a spatial basis. For the present study, the UAV eBee of SenseFly SA was used, in order to demonstrate the utility and effectiveness of these new airborne instruments in th...

Monitoring urban growth and measuring urban sprawl is essential for improving urban planning and development. In this paper, we introduce a supervised approach for the delineation of urban areas using commonly available topographic data and commercial GIS software. The method uses a supervised parameter optimization approach along with buffer-based quality measuring method. The approach was dev...

Coastal regions are of much importance to human socio-economic activities. As a result much of the world’s population live along, or within 150 km of, coasts. Increasing coastal populations, especially in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), are on a collision course with climate change. Climate change is now considered a very real international threat. Sea level rise and other climate change...

The main standards now being implemented in the geospatial world emanate from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee 211 Geomatics/Geographic Information (generally referred to as ‘TC 211’), in their 19xxx series of standards. Because some EU Member States have legal requirements that ‘European standards’ be used for various types of work, if they exist, th...

Studies of the conceptual structures that support spatial cognition, suggest a common basis for spatial and linguistic memory. Furthermore, studies of route descriptions provide evidence that selecting crucial information units in these directions is based on metacognitive knowledge that is largely independent of a specific environment. In this paper, we investigated spatial memory as revealed ...