Trimble (CA, USA)) has announced the keynote speakers for its International User Conference, Trimble Dimensions 2007. The conference, which will be held 5-7 November at the Mirage Hotel in Las...

With the recent acquisition of IONIC, Leica Geosystems Geospatial Solutions is committed to provide standards-based geospatial data management solutions to deploy spatial data infrastructures (SDI) and manage the lifecycle of...

GIS is often considered a solution in search of a problem, and GIS solutions are promoted as the cure for all business challenges. The authors advocate a ­top-down, rather than...

The U.V. Helava Award, sponsored by Elsevier BV and Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping, LLC, is a prestigious ISPRS Award established in 1998 to encourage and stimulate submission to the...

Terrain analysis in geomorphology has undergone a serious quantitative revolution over recent decades. Lidar information has been efficiently used to automatically classify discrete landforms, map forest structures, and provide input...

Optech Lidar technology has successfully delivered The weather report from Mars at the heart of NASA's Phoenix Mars mission. The Phoenix Mars lander made a dramatic landing on the Red...

KVH Industries (RI, USA), in cooperation with NovAtel today introduced the CNS-5000, a self-contained navigation system that combines fiber optic gyro (FOG)-based inertial measurement technology from KVH with global positioning...

Once upon a time, the study of the Earth's surface, its features, inhabitants and phenomena was nothing more than a tiresome school subject for the average person on the street....

Once upon a time, the study of the Earth's surface, its features, inhabitants and phenomena was nothing more than a tiresome school subject for the average person on the street....

The ozone hole over Antarctica, which fluctuates in response to temperature and sunlight, grew to the size of North America in a one-day maximum in September that was the fifth...