Modelling is a well-proven and widely accepted engineering technique for controlling complex reality. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose aid for graphical modelling. The author presents a use case...

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...

RMSI (CA, USA), a publisher and distributor of geographic information for the United States, has developed Universal Map: an exhaustive carto-graphy geo-database covering entire North America. The project, demanding technical...

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...

Two important articles, both from Canada, in the present issue of GIM International are on imaging radar. One article focuses on Canada’s second SAR earth observation satellite: RADARSAT-2. This satellite...

The 2004 GIM International Product Survey on total stations (October issue, page 49) indicates how major manufacturers have begun to apply Bluetooth technology in their instruments. But what is Bluetooth?...

Petrobras, a Brazilian oil company, has extended its contract with RADARSAT International for the use of RADARSAT-1 data and services in support of its environmental program. The one-year extension is...

LiDAR Services International (LSI) (Canada) has recently purchased the new Riegl model Q-560 laser scanner which incorporates full waveform digitising of all return laser pulses. With this purchase, LSI becomes...

Trimble (CA, USA) has introduced five surveying products as part of its new Connected Survey Site model—the Trimble GX 3D Laser Scanner; the Trimble R8 system with Global Navigation Satellite...

Avenza Systems Inc. (Canada) has announced that it will support HarrysMaps of Switzerland and the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) project to re-map the city of...