Trimble (CA, USA) will hold its International User Conference, ‘Trimble Dimensions 2005’, at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas from 23rd to 26th October 2005. The theme will be ‘Move...

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (see websites) Technical Committee 211, Geographic Information and Geomatics Plenary Meeting was hosted by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission JRC (see...

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...

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...

GIS specialists in Africa are quickly seeing the horizon with respect to Geospatial Data Infrastructure (GDI); it is the bottom line that is proving elusive. Financial, budgeting and accounting measures...

Around six hundred participants attended the fifth conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) held in Nairobi, Kenya from 17th to 22nd October 2004. The...

A beam coming from the instrument. Aim it at a surface and push the button, and the distance is measured by laser. Reflectorless laser distance measurement, <i>I know what it...

Mutoh Europe (Belgium), manufacturer of large-format printers and sign-cutting plotters, has introduced its new 2.6 metre super-wide format solvent printer 'Osprey'. Developed by Mutoh Industries (Japan), this new printer is...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (MA, USA) has published a Request for Information (RFI) to solicit input on technologies related to Contextual State Descriptions (CSD). A CSD describes the context...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (MA, USA) invites additional participation in a Web Processing Service Interoperability Experiment to test and refine a draft implementation specification enabling geoprocessing via the internet. Participants...