The French Order of Chartered Surveyors (Ordre des Géomètres Experts) has set itself the objective of completing a GNSS network over the national territory. This network will allow positioning in...

Leica Geosystems (Switzerland) has launched GPS Spider v2.0, a modular software suite for controlling and operating single or multiple reference stations from a central location. This latest version includes the...

Adverse weather and terrain conditions meant the Cano-Limon oil pipeline in Colombia had never been accurately mapped until orthorectified images and digital elevation models covering an area of 94,000km2 were...

The City2See website (www.city2see.com) is now offering high-resolution colour aerial photography of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. Users are able to freely search and view the image catalogue and print...

Use of the digital camera Vexcel UltraCam D was introduced in early 2004 by Aerodata International Surveys. Up until then solely analogue photo cameras such as the Zeiss LMK 2000...

SeeReal Technologies, based in Dresden, Germany, is a company specialised in display technology. Professionals use today’s stereoscopic viewing techniques for visualisation of complex structures and objects using stereo-glasses. SeeReal technology...

Thales (France) has introduced MobileMapper Pro Package with sub- metre post-processing as a standard feature. Mobile workers will continue to secure 2-3 metre real-time accuracy in the field, but can...

In a recent interview on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Science Show, Steve Sasson described his development of the first digital camera thirty years ago, based on small CCD sensors...

In a recent interview on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Science Show, Steve Sasson described his development of the first digital camera thirty years ago, based on small CCD sensors...

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...