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Unlocking the Value of Singapore’s Geospatial Ecosystem
By Tan Boon Khai, Chief Executive, Singapore Land Authority At a recent webinar, I shared the premise of Singapore’s Geospatial Masterplan, which we launched in 2018. As a land scarce country...
CEO of Esri Indonesia: RI has the Potential to Lead Geospatial Technology in ASEAN
Recently Esri Indonesia as a provider of geographic information systems (GIS) solutions, released the COVID-19 Geoportal which functions as a means of health information for the community by...
LotaData’s contribution to Singapore Public Health
LotaData launched the Data for Humanity initiative in March to help government agencies & health researchers with people movement analysis related to the COVID-19 situation. They...
How South Korea turned an urban planning system into a virus tracking database
When a man tested positive in Seoul, the fast response of merging South Korea’s already advanced methods of collecting information and tracking the virus into a new data-sharing system that patches...
Police deploy autonomous robots in dormitory to patrol, ensure safe distancing
Autonomous police robots, Matar, have been deployed at a foreign worker dormitory to ensure workers abide by safe distancing measures. The Matar was developed by the Home Team Science and Technology...
Why geospatial helps Singapore be a great place to live– by Singapore Land Authority Chief Executive, Tan Boon Khai
There is a well-known saying: A picture is worth a thousand words. A map, however, is worth a thousand pictures. Maps are all about location, and location is, at its core, geospatial data. Today...
Launch of BruHealth Contact Tracing Application
To complement the easing of Covid-19 restrictions, the government of Brunei launched its contact tracing application, BruHealth, to ensure that new cases are nevertheless accounted for. Owners of...
Philippines bids farewell to satellite that launched enviro policy into the space age
Diwata-1, Philippines first microsatellite, has ended its four years in Earth orbit, burning up in the atmosphere on April 6, It tour started on March 23, 2016. Diwata-1 spent four years in space...
Aerodyne Drones completes 1,000 flight hours in COVID-19 operations
Exactly one month after Aerodyne started assisting the Malaysian authorities in the enforcement of the Movement Control Order (MCO), the team achieved a milestone of completing over 1,000 hours of...
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