Lidar and other 3D-terrain data are increasingly available and trusted but still generate unwieldy volumes of data. Established in 2004, Applied Imagery provides powerful and simple software tools for visualising,...

In Austria many manmade objects such as roads and buildings are vulnerable to landslides caused by heavy rainstorms. These result from climate change and changes in geological structure. Using GIS,...

Small satellites for earth observation are an important ongoing development in space research. How can mapping and disaster management benefit from small-satellite systems? What is the potential and what the...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), have selected the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Science Team. These scientists and engineers will...

The Wildlife Conservation Society, Tanzania Program has ordered an EnsoMOSAIC digital aerial imaging system from Savcor Indufor Oy (Finland). The delivery will include software for navigation, imaging and image processing,...

At a hand-over ceremony on 2nd December 2006 in the historical City Hall of Münster in Germany, former FIG president Holger Magel handed the chain of office to Stig Enemark....

A Lidar sensor generates hundreds of millions of XYZ coordinates in a few hours. From this massive number of sampled points one wants to reconstruct surfaces Lidar points are described...

Copenhagen in Denmark has conducted an experiment in alternative driving and congestion charging using car tracking based on GPS. A main limitation of GPS is that quality depends on satellite...

East View Cartographic (EVC) has become an official reseller of topographic and thematic maps from the Survey of Bangladesh. These nationally produced maps offer the best large-scale coverage available for...

Natural disaster can be defined as any occurrence causing decay of usability and productivity of land and structures built upon it, and injury or loss of human life. Disasters also...