RMSI (CA, USA), a publisher and distributor of geographic information for the United States, has developed Universal Map: an exhaustive carto-graphy geo-database covering entire North America. The project, demanding technical...

Hitachi Software Global Technology (CO, USA) and Pictometry (NY, USA) have signed an agreement under the terms of which Hitachi Software has modified its HouseDiff change-detection software to use Pictometry...

The XIth biannual Latin American Remote Sensing Symposium (SELPER) was held at the Diego Portales Convention Center, Santiago, Chile, 22–26 November 2004. About 150 professionals from nearly all continents attended...

DiMAC Systems s.à.r.l., a privately owned company established in Luxemburg in November 2003, focuses on developing and producing aerial digital cameras for photogrammetric and orthophoto requirements. The belief underpinning the...

The 4th International Conference and Exhibition Laser Scanning and Digital Aerial Photography was recently successfully held with the theme of ‘Today and Tomorrow’. More than 170 participants from twelve countries...

You are, as a geomatics professional, working in one of the most rapidly growing areas of the world economy. Geomatics is all around us and there is loads of work...

Writing the second edition of our GIS and Science textbook with three colleagues made me acutely aware of two very different approaches to exploiting GIS when we suffer major disasters:...

In November 2004 an Expert Group Meeting on Secure Land Tenure was held at UN Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. The focus of this meeting was to discuss new legal frameworks...

In November 2004 an Expert Group Meeting on Secure Land Tenure was held at UN Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. The focus of this meeting was to discuss new legal frameworks...

The ECOLAB 2004 Congress was held in Cayenne, French Guyana, from 30th November to 5th December with the objective of exchanging scientific progress on the management and conservation of Amazonian...