Technology is the chief source in making India self-reliant. The budget has focused extensively on sunrise sectors like…
Location and time are increasingly becoming common attributes of data. When linked to individuals it gives unprecedented insight into the activities, behaviors, and beliefs of people and groups…
The deployment of jammers, military conflicts, faulty wireless equipment, or poorly designed radio frequency transmitters can disrupt or jam GNSS/GPS signals…
In April 2021 in the Netherlands, when United Nations climate officials congregated at the World Circular Economy Forum, their key conclusion was…
A combination of geospatial and emerging technologies can help reduce humanity’s carbon footprint…
Innovations in Earth Observation technology have enabled comprehensive analysis of disasters for better management…
In the last few years, several nations around the world have adopted the Digital Twin technology for better infrastructure development, risk assessment, predictive maintenance, real-time remote monitoring…
The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Snakebite Information and Data Platform is a confluence of technology with data science and geography…
Public policies across countries have played a key role in the emergence and expansion of the Earth Observation market…
Over the years, GIS has improved and scaled-up to cope with maturing data, offering a totally different Earth Observation experience…
The evolution of technologies like GIS, Image Processing, and PNT has enhanced the quality of imagery analysis to provide value-added digital services to diverse fields of applications. However, issues concerning cost, transparency, and trust…
Geospatial analysis of trade routes and choke points reveal how the Taliban funded its 20-year-long insurgency before storming…
People’s growing awareness and sensitivity towards privacy has led to several significant developments in recent times, among them being the decision by Google and Apple to allow users to control their data…
We are not sure when it started to change. In the past, governments were the main collectors of data about lands, people and resources. Today, the commercial sector collects…
Even as the global NewSpace markets was flourishing, Indian Space-tech startups were striving for survival, sometimes by shifting base to other countries. So, what’s been…
India’s decision to liberalize geospatial data rules is historic, and will go a long way in transforming the country’s economy and ensuring self-reliance…
How a women-led advocacy group used the power of maps to encourage people to vote by making the US Presidential elections personal, and by telling focused, data-driven stories about policies that affect a variety of communities historically excluded from positions of power…
While humankind is no stranger to crisis, there is something different about the COVID-19 pandemic — in a very short time span, the outbreak has led to unprecedented disruption on social, economic and health fronts…
The advent of citizen science opens up new possibilities in geospatial tools and applications…
For India to match China’s Earth Observation capacity in defense, it requires comprehensive efforts around research, development and innovation…
Even as the global NewSpace markets was flourishing, Indian Space-tech startups were striving for survival, sometimes by shifting base to other countries. So, what’s been…
A sneak peek into the past reveals that geographic information has played a key role in epidemiological breakthroughs, highlighting the power of ‘where’ in healthcare…
In less than three months since the first case of COVID-19 was identified in Wuhan in December 2019, the pandemic has brought the entire world to its knees. As humanity collectively braces up…
The COVID-19 pandemic has made all of us realize the importance of being technologically advanced all the more. The lockdowns world over compelled us to…
Bhorva, a remote Indian village, is testimony to the fact that access to land rights for women not only empowers the community, but also leads…
Land rights have direct bearing on the incomes of marginalized individuals and communities, and the potential to transform their living conditions by breaking the cycle of poverty...
The world has united to turn UN’s Sustainable Development Goals into reality. A practical and efficient transport system plays a crucial role in this process…
Real-time persistent global monitoring enables defense and intelligence organizations to receive first-to-know insights that can be used for critical, mission-specific decision-making…
The Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry, which is often viewed as a slow adopter of data and digitalization, has been quick to embrace digital technologies…
It isn’t hard to see that location capable devices will become smaller, more mobile and more accurate in the coming years. With increased computing power and the introduction of quantum computing, location sharing will be safer, faster and easier to capture. Businesses will have far more location information at hand, and it will be up to AI integrated into the BI solution to provide the necessary insights…
Technology innovation and the decreasing cost of data processing are fuelling the demand for actionable intelligence across sectors…