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...

FIG 2002 Congress in Washington was presented with a proposal to develop a (shared) Core Cadastral Domain Model, the FIG CCDM. Such a model broadly covers land registration and cadastre...

The 11th annual Intergeo conference and trade fair was held at the Messe Düsseldorf, the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany from Tuesday 4 October to Thursday 6 October. Under...

Laser-Scan (UK) and Intergraph Portugal deliver a solution to ensure accurate agricultural grant payments to Portuguese farmers. The National Institute of Agricultural Intervention and Guarantee (INGA) is a Portuguese government...

In this month’s Insider’s View Prof. Heinz Rüther puts some critical points on the shortcomings of laser-scanning technology in the spatial documentation of heritage sites. We invited manufacturers of laser-scanning...

Tripod Data Systems (TDS) (OR, USA) has released the next generation of its TDS Ranger rugged data collector featuring Survey Pro. The new Ranger features a faster processor, more storage...

During its 2006 Congress in Munich FIG General Assembly elected Prof. Stig Enemark as president for the term 2007 to 2010. Mr Enemark has longstanding international experience both as a...

Trimble (CA, USA) today introduced the TSC2 Controller, a handheld field computer that provides wireless operations in both field and office. Designed for Integrated Surveying solutions using both GPS and...

FIG founding member Consiglio Nazionale Geometri (CNG) held its 43rd National Congress at the famous top hotel Villa Igiea in Palermo from 17th to 22nd October. FIG president Prof. Holger...

This symposium, held at the University of Wisconsin in Madison (WI), USA from 24th to 25th June 2005, was organised by FIG Commission 7 on Cadastre and Land Management. Land...