The European Commission has received the go-ahead to open negotiations with Ukraine on a 'co-operation agreement' relating to the development of Galileo, Europe's satellite navigation system. The agreement would comprise...

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...

Sometimes, it’s all about where you are on this world instead of who or what you are. At least, as far as it goes for danger from natural disasters. The...

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...

Who hasn’t heard or even used that famous saying, credited to a Chinese philosopher. It makes eminent sense, doesn’t it? We all intuitively agree how difficult it is to adequately...

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...

Developing countries still have a need for mapping systems that are low-cost, simple to operate by local operators, fast in production and yet meet the needs of the application. A...

Blue Marble Geographics (ME, USA) has released version 4.0 of its map display library GeoObjects, offering a 32-bit COM control for spatial data access, display and analysis, needed for developing...

The 3rd DiMENSIon Conference was held in Paris on 28th and 29th October 2004. This was an event related to 3D scanning, bringing together users of the Trimble 3D scanning...

MapInfo Corporation (NY, USA) has launched StreetPro Thailand, a street network database for the Kingdom of Thailand. The product fits the company’s Asia Pacific street database that extends over Australia,...