Topocart has completed the first stage of a project involving more than 35,000 aerial photographs covering an area greater than 250,000 square kilometres in the State of São Paulo (Brazil)....

A new European Union system to forecast space weather has gone live on 1st March 2012. Led by researchers from British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the EUR2.54 million SPACECAST project will...

Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS, USA) has announced the new CR-G5, a high-performance choke ring antenna based on the company's TA-5 full spectrum GNSS antenna element. The new TA-5 technology utilises...

The boards of directors of DigitalGlobe and GeoEye, USA, have unanimously approved a definitive merger agreement under which the companies will combine in a stock and cash transaction valued at...

Aerial surveying company Bluesky, UK, has purchased an airborne mapping system which includes a Lidar and fully integrated thermal sensor and high resolution camera. The system has been developed by...

The UK-based aerial surveying company Bluesky International has purchased an Optech airborne mapping system, which includes anALTMlidar sensor as well as a fully integrated long-wave infrared thermal sensor and high-resolution...

NASA and the Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have released the first images from the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite, which was launched on 11 February...

DigitalGlobe has announced that its previously planned satellite construction programme related to its third WorldView-class satellite remains on track. This is also the moment DigitalGlobe can confirm that it plans...

During the last decade, GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) technologies experienced an accelerated growth, both in terms of quantity in use and quality. The accuracy achieved by technology providers is...

Increasing public awareness, opportunities for industry change and predictions for the future! Hayley Tear, Robin Waters and Stephen Booth report on the highlights of another successful AGI GeoCommunity conference. Last...