The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association (www.gsdi.org) is an inclusive organisation of organisations, agencies and individuals from around the world. The GSDI Association promotes international co-operation and collaboration in...

The Rwanda Development Gateway Group, in partnership with the Research and Training Centre in Geographic Information systems & Remote Sensing of the National University of Rwanda, recently graduated its first...

Leica Geosystems (CA, USA) has launched a new Education Product Program (EPP), a formalised purchase program for educational institutions teaching or performing research in the area of 3D laser scanning....

Some fifteen years ago I was president of The Netherlands Society for Photogrammetry. At that time there was some concern that photogrammetry was taught only at university and not at...

Some fifteen years ago I was president of The Netherlands Society for Photogrammetry. At that time there was some concern that photogrammetry was taught only at university and not at...

GeoDesy is part of Horváth Holding Group and is a privately held Hungarian company. It was founded when the state-owned Hungarian Optical Works was privatised in 1995. Its roots, however,...

The XIth biannual Latin American Remote Sensing Symposium (SELPER) was held at the Diego Portales Convention Center, Santiago, Chile, 22–26 November 2004. About 150 professionals from nearly all continents attended...

Disaster risks stem from sudden energy release in one of the three basic environmental compartments: air, water and land. Today risk assessment, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery are of major...

To monitor the environmental changes and find solutions in the vulnerable Sahel region, the AGRHYMET institute (AGRiculture, HYdrology and METorology) was established thirty years ago. AGRHYMET aims at collecting, processing...

In the city of Manica, a planning exercise based on the principles of participatory community planning is currently taking place in the Josina Machel neighbourhood. The city is one of...