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...

The EU's Transport, Telecommunic-ations and Energy Council has given permission to the Commission to open negotiations with the Ukraine on a 'co-operation agreement' relating to the development of Europe's satellite...

Dear Colleagues, We are happy to welcome you to FIG Congress 2006, which concludes the German chairmanship of FIG from 2002 to 2006. It is in fact the second time...

The State of Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is using DigitalGlobe (CO, USA) QuickBird satellite imagery for forest inventory management, practice assessments and health and disease assessments. The DNR...

NAVTEQ (IL, USA) is offering a full coverage map of Western Europe with the completion of a full coverage map of Italy. The updated database covers all 8,103 cities comprising...

South Korea is looking to participate in the Galileo project, the satellite radio navigation program by the EU, as backup for the U.S.-led GPS it currently uses. During the fourth...

Negotiations on Ukraine’s participation in Europe’s satellite radionavigation programme finally reached approval. The agreement was initialled 3rd June in Kiev by François Lamoureux, Director-General for Energy and Transport at the...

Adverse weather and terrain conditions meant the Cano-Limon oil pipeline in Colombia had never been accurately mapped until orthorectified images and digital elevation models covering an area of 94,000km2 were...

NASA scientists confirm climate warming is changing how much water remains locked in the massive ice sheets covering both Greenland and Antarctica. "If the trends we're seeing continue and climate...

HP (CA, USA) has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Scitex Vision, a market leader in super-wide digital printing, for US$...