The Global Monitoring for the Environment and Security initiative (GMES) is setting up a number of services. Humanitarian aid is recognised as one of the main areas where GMES can...

The Middle East, and in particular the Gulf area, has been undergoing a spectacular metamorphosis over the past three decades. Radical change, and the huge construction and other developmental activities...

Wehrli & Associates Inc., headquartered in Valhalla, New York was incorporated in 1991 with the aim of developing, manufacturing and selling photogrammetric instruments worldwide. It is a small, virtual company...

One of the greatest problems facing mankind today is fulfilling the basic needs of an uncontrollably expanding world population without causing irreversible degradation to the environment. All over the world...

Leica Geosystems (Switzerland) has released version 7 of LISCAD Surveying & Engineering Software. LISCAD, designed for Microsoft Windows, is a complete field-to-finish system which interfaces with all popular surveying instrument...

Trimble (CA, USA) has introduced its S6 Total Station, an advanced surveying instrument based on a new design platform. The S6 will be available in three configurations: Servo, Autolock and...

The 4th International Symposium on Digital Earth was held in Tokyo, Japan from 28th to 31st March 2005 (see review 'Digital Earth Facing Challenges' July 2005). The head of the...

The 4th International Symposium on Digital Earth was held in Tokyo, Japan from 28th to 31st March 2005 (see review 'Digital Earth Facing Challenges' July 2005). The head of the...

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...

Ricoh Corporation (CA, USA) has launched the Pro G3, a high-resolution digital camera that embeds captured images with GPS coordinate information received from either its on-board GPS unit or from...