In 1980 Professor Ackermann founded INPHO GmbH as a spin-off from his institute at Stuttgart University. A quarter of a century later, the company looks like staying independent for another...

Adverse weather and terrain conditions meant the Cano-Limon oil pipeline in Colombia had never been accurately mapped until orthorectified images and digital elevation models covering an area of 94,000km2 were...

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...

INPHO (Germany) has announced the launch of a new version of DTM administration software, DTMaster V1.1.0. The software has been designed for checking, editing, visualisation and classification of 3D point...

The ICA Commission on Mountain Cartography was established in 1999 to define the topics involved and promote methods and knowledge of mountain cartography among scientists and professionals in cartography and...

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...

Applanix (Canada) has released Service Pack 1 for its POSPac 4.2 post-processing software, aimed at airborne and land-based POS users operating a variety of sensors such as aerial cameras, LiDAR,...

Space Imaging Middle East (SIME) (Dubai) signed a co-operation agreement with Khatib&Alami (K&A) (Lebanon), a multidisciplinary architectural and engineering consulting company with long-term expertise in GIS. SIME will become K&A’s...

David Williams CEO and Jeremy Dunne CTO founded Laser Technology, Inc. (LTI) as a start-up company in 1985 in Littleton, Colorado, USA. It went public in 1993, then became a...

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging, LLC (GA, USA) has announced the release of Leica Photogrammetry Suite (LPS) V8.7 Service Pack 3 (SP3). The release provides a combination of critical bug fixes...