Since mankind exchanged his hunting and gathering existence for a life of land cultivation, enabling him to settle permanently on one spot, he has felt a need to portray the...

Lying in one of the most tectonically active zones in the Alpine-Himalayan belt, Iran frequently suffers from heavy and disastrous earthquakes. To monitor surface displacement and measure velocity and strain...

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) will use DigitalGlobe CitySphere to access imagery of 200 of the world’s major metropolitan areas. CitySphere is an off-the-shelf collection of orthorectified color imagery provided...

Traditional horizontal and vertical datum have two separate origins: respectively Earth’s centre of mass as origin for horizontal, and mean sea level (the geoid) as origin for vertical. The author...

Sokkia (Japan) has released the SRX, a new line-up of robotic total stations. SRX models are available with an angular precision varying from 1.5 to 15mgon (0.5” to 5”). New...

‘Knowledge and Action for the Earth’ is the theme of Intergeo 2006, the annual geodesy and geo-information conference and trade-fair organised in association with the German Association of Surveying (DVW)...

The GeoInformation Group (United Kingdom), publishers of Cities Revealed aerial photography, has captured aerial imagery of Belfast at 12.5cm resolution. This high-resolution aerial imagery dataset was captured on 16th September...

Although operational for more than twenty years, Airborne Lidar Bathymetry (ALB) has rarely been used in riverine areas. The US Bureau of Reclamation adopted it to study how flow change...

Maps of Czech lands derived from eighteenth and nineteenth-century military surveys are unique cartographic artefacts containing much useful, interesting and valuable information. The content and accuracy of these maps has...

CSI's Hemisphere GPS division has introduced its new Crescent R100 Series DGPS Receiver. The Crescent R100 is a solution for professional mapping, guidance and navigation applications and features: 12 Channel...