To monitor the environmental changes and find solutions in the vulnerable Sahel region, the AGRHYMET institute (AGRiculture, HYdrology and METorology) was established thirty years ago. AGRHYMET aims at collecting, processing...

The FIG Working Week 2005 and the 8th International Conference on Global Spatial Data Infrastructure were held in the Egyptian metropolis of Cairo from 16th to 21st April 2005. This...

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...

This year's Intergeo, held under the theme of Grenzen ûberschreiten was held in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 4th to 6th October, and all subsequently released statistics indicate new records for the...

Trimble (CA, USA) has acquired intellectual property assets from privately-held The XYZs of GPS, Inc. (MA, USA), in an all-cash transaction. The XYZs of GPS develops real-time GNSS reference station,...

CARIS (Canada) appointed a new vice president of CARIS USA. Paul R. Cooper has joined the CARIS executive team and will be responsible for directing all aspects of the company's...

MAPPS (VA, USA) a US (national) association of geospatial, mapping and photogrammetry companies, ihas announced the addition of 15 new member firms. MAPPS membership has increased to more than 160...

The Sixth Annual International Conference and Exposition on Laser Scanning and Digital Aerial Photography, ‘Today and Tomorrow’, was held at the President Hotel in Moscow from 6th to 8th December....

ThinkGeo LLC (KS, USA) has released TIGER 2006 Second Edition data in ShapeFile (.shp) format. TIGER 2006 SE data is a complete geographic dataset of the United States and all...

The April 2008 issue of GIM International (page 11) summarised a project to map the Maldives as an example of how aerial photogrammetry is today applied for mapping large, complex...