The union cabinet in India has approved a national map policy that draws a distinction between maps for defence and civilian purposes. "Under the policy, there will be two kinds...

The last quarter century has seen a stupendous development in the field of global positioning technology and today it is almost a taken for granted service by a global positional...

Anomalies such as building-lean result from the processing of traditional orthorectified imagery and this limits its use in urban areas. However, the arrival of digital sensors has meant fully orthorectified...

A collection of USGS before-and-after satellite image pairs for 80 sites around the world is featured in a new atlas documenting global environmental changes released by the United Nations Environment...

The 4th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE) was held in Tokyo, Japan from 28th to 31st March 2005 with the theme ‘Digital Earth as Global Commons’. The more than...

Administrative reform within Europe has had a tremendous impact on land administration all over the continent. Geo-Spatial Data Infrastructures (GSDI) may bring further improvements. The authors review land policy, land...

The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association has announced the GSDI Small Grants Program for the year 2005. The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association is dedicated to international co-operation and...

The 4th International Symposium on Digital Earth was held in Tokyo, Japan from 28th to 31st March 2005 (see review 'Digital Earth Facing Challenges' July 2005). The head of the...

The 4th International Symposium on Digital Earth was held in Tokyo, Japan from 28th to 31st March 2005 (see review 'Digital Earth Facing Challenges' July 2005). The head of the...

India is emerging as an important player in today’s global economy, particularly in the field of Information Technology (IT). Her base of highly skilled IT professionals attracts to her shores...