Autumn 2005 brings at least two major changes to Leica Geosystems. The company has been taken over; in mid-October Sweden-based Hexagon formally took ownership. In addition, Hans Hess has left...

Prof. Dr John van Genderen, himself a leading western expert on geospatial developments in China, interviews Professor Dr ZHANG Jixian, acting president of the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping...

Prof. Dr John van Genderen, himself a leading western expert on geospatial developments in China, interviews Professor Dr ZHANG Jixian, acting president of the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping...

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) is emerging as a highly cost-effective 3D mapping technology. Digital elevation models and ortho-rectified radar imagery are core commercial Intermap Technologies products using its airborne...

The eighth in the series of annual Map India conferences was organised for the first time this year jointly with the Indian Society of Geomatics (ISG). The event took place...

Sanborn (CO, USA) has announced the promotion of Jay Tilley to senior vice president and general manager of Sanborn's Colorado Springs office, effective immediately. Tilley, who most recently served as...

Racurs is privately owned company established from scratch in Moscow in 1993 without any start-up capital. The four founders, with backgrounds in the Russian defence industry and the Russian Academy...

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...

Anomalies such as building-lean result from the processing of traditional orthorectified imagery and this limits its use in urban areas. However, the arrival of digital sensors has meant fully orthorectified...

Cardinal Systems, LLC, a privately owned company located in Flagler Beach, Florida, USA, was formed in August 2000 when founders Jane Smith and Mike Kitaif joined forces to market their...