Toposcopy combines geo-referenced visualisation and close-range photogrammetry, using low-cost digital camera and CAD data. It has recently been successfully used to reconstruct a simulated traffic accident from video images. The...

The Miage Glacier at Mont Blanc Massif, with an area totalling 11km2, is the third largest glacier in Italy. Time-space modelling of the lakebed and glacier walls carried out with...

Topcon (CA, USA) announces the HiPer XT - an new GPS system for land surveying and construction layout applications. This system features fully integrated receiver / antenna units with a...

The internet has created tremendous potential for the dissemination of geo-information for decision making. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an Open Source technology that can be efficiently used by the...

GAF AG (Germany) in co-operation with the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources of Germany (BGR) has been awarded a consulting service contract by the World Bank (IDA) funded...

Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions (AL, USA) has announced that the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia (ICC) has purchased the company's Z/I Imaging DMC. The DMC will enable ICC, the official...

Galileo Group, Inc. (FL, USA) and Forest One, Inc. (MS, USA) have partnered to provide assistance to government agencies and private companies attempting to recover from Hurricane Katrina. The partnership...

Sokkia (Europe) B.V. (The Netherlands) has announced the release of Mapsuite+ Version 3.0.1, a Windows based CAD program that has been developed especially for the surveying, mapping and civil engineering...

The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) (MA, USA) has established a Risk and Crisis Management Working Group (RCM WG) to address the global need for better sharing of geospatial information...

CyberCity (Switzerland) has presented its interface to SOCET SET/SOCET GXP of BAE Systems. Using this software development, point clouds - photogrammetrically measured in SOCET SET as .gams files - can...