Prof. Dr John van Genderen, himself a leading western expert on geospatial developments in China, interviews Professor Dr ZHANG Jixian, acting president of the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping...

Prof. Dr John van Genderen, himself a leading western expert on geospatial developments in China, interviews Professor Dr ZHANG Jixian, acting president of the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping...

Time is something most of us take for granted. We wake up in the morning, rush to the office, carry out our work duties with empathy, indifference or incomprehension and...

Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) is a European programme that deals with natural hazards, humanitarian aid, environmental protection, risk and disaster management, and security. The authors have analysed...

All land administration organisations face similar challenges: they need to become less bureaucratic, simpler, cheaper and more transparent. Design and implementation of traditional approaches is so time-consuming that land laws...

‘Knowledge and Action for the Earth’ is the theme of Intergeo 2006, the annual geodesy and geo-information conference and trade-fair organised in association with the German Association of Surveying (DVW)...

Trimble (CA, USA) has announced the keynote speaker line up for its International User Conference—Trimble Dimensions 2005. With more than 150 track sessions, the conference focuses on applying technology to...

Never before in history has mankind lived with so many people, so close together, on such small pieces of land. Levels of urbanisation all over the world are extremely high;...

In our July issue we published the first of two articles addressing the use of GPS in agricultural field measurement, particularly in relation to EU subsidy checks. In it the...

Over the past fifteen years there has been a steady worldwide increase in numbers of associations for Geographic Information (GI), umbrella organisations that aim to play a beneficial role not...