Anomalies such as building-lean result from the processing of traditional orthorectified imagery and this limits its use in urban areas. However, the arrival of digital sensors has meant fully orthorectified...

The present product survey provides the main characteristics of today’s high-resolution imagery acquired from orbiting platforms. A clear trend is the ongoing improvement of pixel size, also called Ground Sample...

A satellite in orbit around the Earth with onboard sensors tirelessly and continuously collecting data. Some satellites take pictures of the Earth at a spectacular level of detail. The high-resolution...

The Miage Glacier at Mont Blanc Massif, with an area totalling 11km2, is the third largest glacier in Italy. Time-space modelling of the lakebed and glacier walls carried out with...

Looking through a telescope; sending and receiving electromagnetic waves through this telescope; taking pictures through this same telescope. And all through the same line-of-sight: co-axial. <i>I know what it is,...

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...

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...

‘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 X Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Geographic Information Systems (XIBCGIS) will take place in the San Juan City (Puerto Rico) on 6 to 9 September 2005. The organisation...

The competitiveness of an organisation is negatively affected by poor data quality, as introduced through the multitude of transformations and transfers carried out on original data. One risk involves uncontrolled...