Ricoh Corporation (CA, USA) has launched the Pro G3, a high-resolution digital camera that embeds captured images with GPS coordinate information received from either its on-board GPS unit or from...

On 30th November 2005 the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced Space Activities Commission (SAC) approval for launch of ‘Daichi’, Japan’s Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) within a time window...

Rapidly evolving technologies such as Web services transform the former digital-map toolbox for specialists into a challenging digital peep-box for everyone. Introduced in 2005, Google Earth is one of the...

This product survey focuses on high-resolution, large-format scanners with colour depth of up to 48 bits for transferring large-format hardcopy images and maps to digital format. The resulting raster data...

AirPhotoUSA (AZ, USA) has recently purchased INPHO's digital photogrammetric software suite consisting of MATCH-AT (automatic aerial triangulation), OrthoMaster (orthorectification), OrthoVista (orthomosaicking), MATCH-T (automatic DTM generation), DTMaster (DTM editing) and SCOP++...

The 11th annual Intergeo conference and trade fair was held at the Messe Düsseldorf, the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany from Tuesday 4 October to Thursday 6 October. Under...

The volumes of data needed for planning has made GIS an invaluable tool, now used for such purposes all over the world. Satellite images also provide rapid and up-to-date data...

ESRI (CA, USA) has announced that World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is using ESRI ArcWeb Services to operate WildFinder, its new information site on the Web. The site gives students, nature...

Blue Marble Geographics (ME, USA) announces version 6.2 of the Geographic Calculator software for coordinate conversion. This new version improves import and export of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. The calculator can...

In Austria many manmade objects such as roads and buildings are vulnerable to landslides caused by heavy rainstorms. These result from climate change and changes in geological structure. Using GIS,...