Digital Norway is a collaboration that is playing an important role in implementation of the national spatial data infrastructure in Norway. At the root of the infrastructure is a national...

GPS and GLONASS: two operational Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), one owned by US and the other by Russia - <i>I know they give me positions; I know they enable...

ORBIMAGE Inc. (VA, USA) has announced that The Hon. James M. Simon, Jr., has joined the board of directors of its parent company, ORBIMAGE Holdings, Inc. Following a distinguished career...

In Austria many manmade objects such as roads and buildings are vulnerable to landslides caused by heavy rainstorms. These result from climate change and changes in geological structure. Using GIS,...

In his foreword to the programme for this international conference, Prof. Paul van der Molen, chair of FIG’s Commission 7 on Cadastre and Land Management, highlighted how difficult it could...

In October 2005 the European Space Agency (ESA) awarded GAF (Germany) the Project Management role for Stage 2 of the GMES Service Element on Forest Monitoring (GSE FM). GAF successfully...

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe through its Working Party on Land Administration (WPLA) defines land administration as the processes of determining, recording and disseminating information about the ownership,...

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe through its Working Party on Land Administration (WPLA) defines land administration as the processes of determining, recording and disseminating information about the ownership,...

Bhoomi is one of the largest property-information databases in the world, containing land-administration information on twenty million parcels owned by 6.7 million farmers in 176 sub-districts of Karnataka State, India....

Co-sponsored by FIG, the 5th Map Asia 2006 took place in Bangkok, Thailand from 29th August to 1st September 2006. FIG president Professor Holger Magel attended the event, organised by...