Disasters are of all ages. When they strike, more often than not they strike suddenly and ruthlessly. The damage disasters cause fills us with deep awe for the unimaginable forces...

The mangroves of the Sunderban area in India are one of the most productive and diverse ecosystems in the world, and yet they are a threatened habitat. To formulate a...

For the past four years British Columbia, Canada has been compiling a common cadastral base map for the joint benefit of stakeholders in three sectors: provincial (state) government, local municipal...

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...

The 5th FIG Regional Conference was held in Accra, Ghana from 8th to 11th March 2006, together with the 37th Ghana Institution of Surveyors Conference. This was the first time...

EarthMap Solutions, LLC (CO, USA) presented it products for customers using remote sensing tools for agriculture, environmental and forestry land management. EarthMap Solutions (EMS), a spin-off of DigitalGlobe’s agriculture business,...

Early in 2002 the government of the autonomous region of Catalonia (Spain) began the IDEC project (SDI of Catalonia). The first year was devoted to general planning and preparation and...

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...

Many disaster mitigation and management activities involve sharing of geospatial information, and such sharing depends on standards that enable multiple systems to behave as one system. ‘Behaving as one system’...

Intergraph (AL, USA) has unveiled Feature Analyst for GeoMedia. The product was developed by Visual Learning Systems, Inc. (VLS) (MT, USA) as an add-on tool for Intergraph's GeoMedia platform. Available...