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Technological Trends in Remote Sensing Significant technological advances and substantial reductions in the costs of operating satellites, launch services, supporting infrastructure, data storage and transmission technologies have led to a dramatic rise in the availability of satellite imagery for civilian use in recent years. This rise in availability of satellite imagery stems from a larger number of satellites launched into orbit by space agencies from many countries of the world and some private companies.

Topics The Royal Geographical Society (RGS) with the Institute of British Geographers (IBG) has signed up to support the Locus Charter, promoting responsible practice in the use of location data. RGS said it will seek to inform and improve location data practice across relevant work, from individual projects to organisational mandates. The first such activities are a series of collaborative workshops with the Association for Geographical Information (AGI) for professional geographers to put the charter principles into practice, providing advice and examples to inform and improve their work. ...

GISuser.com New revision to OGC GeoPackage Gridded Tiled Coverage Extension: Public Comment Sought July 19, 2021 By GISuser The extension defines how to encode and store tiled regular gridded data – such as a digital elevation model – in a GeoPackage, and now supports additional data types and multiple channels. 16 July 2021: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on version 1.1 of the OGC GeoPackage Extension for Tiled Gridded Coverage Data (TGCE). 

GISuser.com OGC Compliance Certification Available for v1.1 of the OGC GeoTIFF Encoding Standard June 9, 2021 By Editor Implementers of GeoTIFF v1.1 are invited to validate their products using the new test suite. 9 June 2021: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the Executable Test Suite (ETS) for version 1.1 of the OGC GeoTIFF Standard has been approved by the OGC Membership. Products that implement the OGC GeoTIFF 1.1 Standard and pass the tests in the ETS can now be certified as OGC Compliant. Implementers are invited to validate their products using the new ...

Implementers of SensorML v2.0 are invited to validate their products using the new test suite.