The future for the surveying professional is bright. This is one of my favourite adages, and one I have expressed in a variety of wordings many times over in the...

This issue of GIM International presents a Product Survey on mobile mappers: small, lightweight, handy instruments for gathering data and integrating the collected data with digital maps. But how is...

The fourth GML relay will be held at the Dutch Topographic Service in Emmen, The Netherlands on 26th January 2006. As explained exactly a year ago in GIM International, Geography...

The Spanish NSDI, named IDEE for 'Infra-estructura de Datos Espaciales de España' (www.idee.es), is a SDI of SDIs following the decentralised structure of Spanish Government: national, regional and local. It...

Two important articles, both from Canada, in the present issue of GIM International are on imaging radar. One article focuses on Canada’s second SAR earth observation satellite: RADARSAT-2. This satellite...

Mobile Mapping devices are a typical result of the on-going miniaturisation of instruments enabled by chip technology and electronics which result in small, handy, portable and accurate GPS tools that...

ESRI (CA, USA) and its international distributors are supporting response to the recent Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami disaster by working with government agencies and disaster relief organisations to provide...

Building upon a successful multinational enterprise contract signed four years ago, ESRI (CA, USA) and Shell International Exploration and Production (The Netherlands) have agreed to expand their relationship. The two...

Leica Geosystems Ltd (UK) has won a contract to supply surveying equipment valued at £640,000 (US$ 1,206,604.61) to University of Nottingham’s Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy (IESSG). The...

To be honest, I had completely overlooked the link as well. And that doesn’t say much for me, a historian by trade. Okay, a few months as publication director with...