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...

"Welcome to the future!" This was how Topcon greeted Intergeo visitors to their stand. It was impossible to overlook. So what is so special about that future? And how is...

"Welcome to the future!" This was how Topcon greeted Intergeo visitors to their stand. It was impossible to overlook. So what is so special about that future? And how is...

Collecting, processing, managing and distributing information and transforming it into relevant support for decision making constitutes the nerve system of society at local, regional, national and global scale. Of increasing...

Pentax Corporation, now so well known for its survey instruments, was founded in 1919 in Tokyo as Asahi Optical Joint Stock Co, mainly as a manufacturer of cameras. In 1938...

This report covers the latest in a series of meetings on the use and applications of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) hosted by the United Nations Office for Outer Space...

Topcon Europe Positioning (The Netherlands) has announced the satellite positioning receiver – the NET-G3. This product is provides tracking of all three global positioning satellite constellations – GPS, Glonass, and...

On 20th December 2005 Leica Geosystems announced a partnership with Ordnance Survey to offer commercial delivery of a GPS network solution across Great Britain. The network now consists of over...

Former ESA director general Antonio Rodotà has died in Rome on Thursday 23 February aged 70. The ESA Council appointed him director general starting in June 1997 and he served...

South Korea is looking to participate in the Galileo project, the satellite radio navigation program by the EU, as backup for the U.S.-led GPS it currently uses. During the fourth...