Some fifteen years ago I was president of The Netherlands Society for Photogrammetry. At that time there was some concern that photogrammetry was taught only at university and not at...

Geography and history are sister disciplines. In fact, geography as a field of scientific research evolved from the study of history. Whereas geographers have the perspective of space, historians consider...

The debate on Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) has reached a level of maturity that encourages reflection and facilitates evaluation of past experience. The author considers some emerging trends in the...

The French Order of Chartered Surveyors (Ordre des Géomètres Experts) has set itself the objective of completing a GNSS network over the national territory. This network will allow positioning in...

IONIC (Belgium) has released RedSpider Web version 3.2, with support for both English and French. The product offers the functionality for building an interoperable Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) within an...

Traditional methods of information management are hard to use in the planning process of problematic urban areas such as squatter settlements. GIS provides the capability for dynamic query and analysis,...

NIIRS10, Inc. (AL, USA) has announced that Martin Flood has joined the company as general manager of the company’s new Canadian office, located in Toronto, Ontario. Mr. Flood will be...

In 2000, geodetic datum of Japan was shifted to the world datum (ITRF Coordinate System) and since the year 2002 authorised Electric Reference Stations (ERS) coordinates and their daily observation...

In 2000, geodetic datum of Japan was shifted to the world datum (ITRF Coordinate System) and since the year 2002 authorised Electric Reference Stations (ERS) coordinates and their daily observation...

Vexcel Corporation (CO, USA) has announced CCDMap-a highly automated satellite image processing system for Coherent Change Detection (CCD) from commercial SAR data. CCDMap performs image formation, interferometric processing, ortho-rectification, and...