geospatial

Impact

For much of this economic crisis, the sharp edges of the downturn have been blunted, as far as the geospatial business is concerned, by governments all over the globe providing extra investment for p...

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Future Forecast

It's a fine tradition around this time of the year: trying to identify what the hot topics will be in the coming year. Many magazines and television shows are looking back on the past year and at the...

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The Clock is Ticking

  We've come a long way already, but we desperately need to pick up the pace. The cadastre of today needs to be implemented in large parts of the world as soon as possible, in order to avoid hundr...

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Intergeo

Full of Potential

  Welcome to our thickest issue of the year. Intergeo 2011 is just around the corner and we are pleased to provide you with a small preview of what will be on display there. More than a hundred co...

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geoinformation

Better Safe Than Sorry

The role of the government during and after disasters is to provide protection and emergency response to its civilians in need. It is a role that governments, however, would prefer not to have to carr...

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GEO++

Voluntary Geography Input

In the future, mapmaking will be done bottom-up and no longer monolithically from the top down. The regions that will most benefit from this new approach will be the developing ones. The message broa...

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Satellite

Exceptional

  A refreshingly ‘green' and exceptional voice from Brazil this month, as director Gilberto Câmara of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) talks to GIM International about his count...

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Business

Imagination

It's the entrepreneur with imagination that will survive, and acting like a sitting duck will not help you win through these both economically and technologically challenging times. ese two remarks b...

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surveyor

BAC+5+2T+SE

The overall opinion is that the gathering of geo-data is becoming easier through automation. It’s almost a ‘push the button’ and there’s your dataset. Of course this is something of an oversi...

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Readers’ Response

  Jumhuri Tojikiston is the official name for Tajikistan, a mountainous country in Central Asia. At GIM International we claim to be a global magazine, and one of the things we strive for is to co...

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Introduction

Every issue of GIM International is introduced to its worldwide readership by the publisher. It’s in this place that developments in the geomatics business, tools and techniques, hard- and software and more are put in the broader light of the outside world of economics and entrepreneurship. Regular and returning topics are for instance the geomatics business in upcoming regions, but also the importance of developing state-of-the art cadastre and land registration systems for the future welfare of citizens or the increasing application of new techniques like crowdsourcing and UAV’s.