More than 25% of EU legislation has a tech-nical or scientific basis, and this trend is likely to continue as policies increasingly cut across several disciplines. JRC The mission of...

The mangroves of the Sunderban area in India are one of the most productive and diverse ecosystems in the world, and yet they are a threatened habitat. To formulate a...

It is likely to be 2012 before the Galileo system itself is fully operational on a stand-alone basis, says this month’s interviewee Owen Goodman, and Galileo will never be a...

The 9th annual International Conference and Exhibition Map India was held from 30th January to 1st February 2006 at Taj Palace Hotel, Delhi. Over 1,200 people from 29 countries participated...

Modest Production Rates Recent issues of GIM International have paid much attention to the implementation of land-administration systems as a means of reducing poverty in developing countries. But what are...

Enabled mainly by rapid developments in telecommunications and internet, there is growing relocation of office labour from Western countries to emerging ones such as India, Pakistan and China. The attraction...

Enabled mainly by rapid developments in telecommunications and internet, there is growing relocation of office labour from Western countries to emerging ones such as India, Pakistan and China. The attraction...

Land and the way governments deal with it are of major importance for the development of any society. The authors present land administration systems as an instrument to support implementation...

Trimble (CA, USA) has supplied 271 GeoXT GPS handheld receivers, part of the GeoExplorer series, to Poland’s Plant Health and Seed Inspection Services (PHSIS), a national government agency. This purchase...

DigitalGlobe’s European business partner, Italy-based Eurimage, has entered into a contract with the European Commission (EC)’s Joint Research Center to supply worldwide satellite imagery over a four-year period. The DigitalGlobe...