Issue 42

August - September 2009

Editorial by JON FAIRALL

NEWS FEATURES

  • Inside the Intervention
  • Precision Agriculture to Boom
  • Space Policy Unit
  • Information Fails Fire Test
  • Copyright in Doubt
  • Microsoft Challenges Google

The Future of Surveying

New Skills for New Times
by NEIL OTHER

    New technology will mean new demands on surveyors' expertise.

The Hardware of the Future

    New hardware will create a very different world for the surveyor of the future.

Surveyor 2020
by MICHAEL SPITERI

    The future will be different, but not too different to the past.

Beyond Landsat
by TONY GILL, STUART PHINN, TIM DANAHER and SAM GILLINGHAM

    Long-term envrionmental monitoring requies us to extend our capability beyond Landsat sensors.

Geospatial Fusion
by PREETHA PULUSANI and SAMEER BABBAR

    How to integrate the enterprise

Web Stats
by JOSE DIACONO

    Who's using your mapping website

Asset Management

Mapping the Underground
by JON FAIRALL

    Mapping buried assets can reap big rewards.

Managing Growth
by JONATHON POWERS

    Spatial information is being used to manage airport growth in Perth.

Electronic Lodgement
by WILLIAM GIBBS

    Sharing and transferring information about land is becoming easier.

Changing Corporate Philosophy
by ANTHONY JAHSHAN

    There's a goldmine of spatial data just waiting to become information.

COLUMNS

COMING SOON

Next Issue

    Radar Satellites
    Open Source
    Surveying Software

ON THE HORIZON

    Annual Directory of Products & Services
    GNSS

If you would like to contribue a story to the December 2009 issue or you have ideas for interesting content, please contact the editor, Jon Fairall, on +61-2-9565-2223 by mid-September 2009.

Front Cover Image: Mapping in the underground has always been a murky business but new techniques of data visualisation and storage are making a difference.(Photo by Euzesio)

If you would like to contribute to any of these features, email the editor jon@positionmag.com.au


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