The Global Monitoring for the Environment and Security initiative (GMES) is setting up a number of services. Humanitarian aid is recognised as one of the main areas where GMES can...

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...

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,...

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...

Two important articles, both from Canada, in the present issue of GIM International are on imaging radar. One article focuses on Canada’s second SAR earth observation satellite: RADARSAT-2. This satellite...

MapQuest Services (CO, USA), a provider of software to location-enable web and wireless applications, has introduced street-level mapping for major Latin American countries including Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. The company...

The Department of Urban Services in Canberra (Australia) has bought DigitalGlobe (CO, USA) QuickBird satellite imagery from Sinclair Knight Merz, a DigitalGlobe business partner. The imagery serves the Australian Capital...

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...

The next phase in GIS development on the internet should restore user freedom and give a fully comprehensive overview of geo-objects originating anywhere and containing all relevant information. It should...