It is with deep regret that I announce the death of o.Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Karl Kraus, Technische Universität Wien, Austria, on 5th April 2006, following a heart attack...

Saterday 8th October at 21.00 h CEST Mr. Jury Bakhvalov, first deputy director general of the Khrunichev Space Center on behalf of the Russian State Commission officially confirmed that the...

Intermap GmbH (Germany) has appointed Dr Manfred Krischke as its new managing director. Dr Krischke has fifteen years experience in the aerospace and space technology industry. He successfully co-founded and...

The internet has created tremendous potential for the dissemination of geo-information for decision making. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an Open Source technology that can be efficiently used by the...

Pentax (Belgium) have announced the introduction of their new PLP-600 range of Lasers which are aimed at the general construction market. Based on the successful PLP-50 and PLP-5H ranges, the...

Trimble (CA, USA) has introduced its next generation of GPS receivers for GIS data collection and mapping, the GPS Pathfinder ProXH receiver. It is an integrated GPS receiver, antenna and...

Rollei GmbH was founded in 1920 as Rollei Fototechnic GmbH, in Braunschweig, the centre of today’s Germany. Founders Paul Franke and Reinhold Heidecke wanted to build opto-mechanically-superior cameras, not only...

Copenhagen in Denmark has conducted an experiment in alternative driving and congestion charging using car tracking based on GPS. A main limitation of GPS is that quality depends on satellite...

East View Cartographic (EVC) (MN, USA) has announced the availability of a custom map collection intended to support the international community’s efforts to control the spread of the deadly H5N1...

Xplore Technologies Corp. (TX, USA) an international rugged Tablet PC provider, has announced its iX104RD Tablet PC’s have been selected by DaimlerChrysler in Bremen, Germany to increase spare parts processing...