A digital photogrammetric system is defined by ISPRS as: hardware and software designed to derive photogrammetric products from digital imagery using manual and automated techniques. Today the trend is to...

Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) offer oversize opportunities for monitoring and managing many facets of our vulnerable world. Particularly in developing countries,...

Planning, designing and managing the urban environment require appropriate decision-making. Here the availability and use of three-dimensional (3D) geo-information in the form of 3D city models is crucial. The authors...

Sierra Atlantic Ltd., the sole Indian distributor of RSI, has received certification for ENVI to be used to process data from the Indian CARTOSAT-1 satellite. The CARTOSAT-1 satellite provides stereo...

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...

Monash University (Australia) has purchased an ER Mapper Educational Site License to assist in displaying satellite and airborne sensed data in a georeferenced environment. The ER Mapper Educational Site License...

Standards are of great interest to surveyors, both as professionals and as business people. Early and active engagement with the process of standardisation by professional bodies such as the International...

Airborne 1 (CA, USA) in key partnership with Ambercore Software Inc. (Canada), released LiDAR XLR8R 3.0, a Lidar data management, analysis, and visualisation tool for Lidar and geospatial data consumers....

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...

New Tech Services (NC, USA) and Flotron (Switzerland) have released the version 5.03 of the flight planning tool, TopoFlight. Except for enhancement to simplify the use, the company also added...