The Indonesian national cartographic report prepared by the National Coordinating Agency for Surveys and Mapping (Bakosurtanal) and covering the period 2003 to 2005 was tabled at the ICA special General...

Medical applications such as bedsore analysis often require 3D surface reconstruction of the human body. Major surface reconstruction techniques are based on mechanical digitizers, laser scanners and vision systems, including...

The annual Trimble Dimensions show was held from 6th to 8th November 2006 in the Convention Center at the Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas, USA. With the theme ‘Build Your Connected...

New Tech Services (NC, USA) and Flotron (Switzerland) have released version 4.0 of TopoFlight, their planning software for photo-flights. It calculates, for instance, number of flight lines, number of images,...

The new Pentax R-300X series has been released, offering improved performance and a higher specification. Improvements over current models include increased on-board memory, to 20,000 points, 40% reduction in initial...

COWI is a northern European consultancy group headquartered in Lyngby, Denmark, near the capital Copenhagen. Its 3,500 employees are distributed over nearly all continents and provide a variety of services...

accorded by the government authority Gosstandard. Falcon II now is listed as an officially certified geodetic measurement system and accredited for Lidar scanning in Russia. Currently only very few sensor...

As the internet bubble approached bursting point, voices arose against manufacturers who entrenched their software products within monopolistic bastions; in particular the Microsoft (quasi) monopoly became the target of verbal...

In this month’s Insider’s View Prof. Heinz Rüther puts some critical points on the shortcomings of laser-scanning technology in the spatial documentation of heritage sites. We invited manufacturers of laser-scanning...

LandVoyage (CO, USA) released the new FetchConnect WMS technology. FetchConnect WMS will allow all of the LandVoyage maps and imagery to be accessed by any WMS compatible software from providers...