To monitor the environmental changes and find solutions in the vulnerable Sahel region, the AGRHYMET institute (AGRiculture, HYdrology and METorology) was established thirty years ago. AGRHYMET aims at collecting, processing...

In the city of Manica, a planning exercise based on the principles of participatory community planning is currently taking place in the Josina Machel neighbourhood. The city is one of...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (MA, USA) invites additional participation in a Web Processing Service Interoperability Experiment to test and refine a draft implementation specification enabling geoprocessing via the internet. Participants...

The Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia (JUPEM) has selected Leica Photogrammetry Suite (LPS) as its standard photogrammetric application. JUPEM employs Leica products throughout its entire data production chain, operating...

Leica Geosystems (Switzerland) has launched GPS Spider v2.0, a modular software suite for controlling and operating single or multiple reference stations from a central location. This latest version includes the...

In Lombardy (Italy) one has started a project on risk-assessment of buildings of historical-architectural importance. For this purpose a Building Information System (BIS) has been created, based on archived and...

TeleAtlas (NH, USA) and Shanghai ChangXiang (SIS), a Chinese specialist in information processing and digital mapping, announced the establishment of their joint venture partnership NaviAtlas and its approval by Chinese...

The tsunami in Asia has once again demonstrated that human beings are at risk at any time, anywhere. Disasters in highly populated environments are difficult to manage using only small-scale...

The land surveying and registration system in Namibia covers only part of the country. There is frustration at the slow pace of planning, survey and registration of land rights and...

There is general agreement that spatial data is key to sustainable resource management and overall economic development. A Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) in turn provides the underlying foundation for accessing...