Some fifteen years ago I was president of The Netherlands Society for Photogrammetry. At that time there was some concern that photogrammetry was taught only at university and not at...

Some fifteen years ago I was president of The Netherlands Society for Photogrammetry. At that time there was some concern that photogrammetry was taught only at university and not at...

In the vibrant city of San Francisco 1,250 professionals from 56 countries joined the 2005 edition of Intergraph’s user conference Geospatial World, held from 25th to 28th April. This year’s...

Writing a text or revising a spreadsheet and saving it...editing a map or digital photo and saving it…a seemingly unlimited amount of data, all stored inside the computer on the...

Founded in 1991, Jena-Optronik GmbH originates in the space department of Carl Zeiss Jena, Jenoptik and DASA (later part of today’s EADS). In 2005 Jenoptik AG took over all shares...

Land and the way governments deal with it are of major importance for the development of any society. The authors present land administration systems as an instrument to support implementation...

Early in 2002 the government of the autonomous region of Catalonia (Spain) began the IDEC project (SDI of Catalonia). The first year was devoted to general planning and preparation and...

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...

There are professions in our society that are almost invisible. Mine certainly isn’t one of them. Publishers know how to make use of the media to show the world what...

The governments of many African countries are currently investing in improving land administration with the aim of developing an efficient land market. A side objective is to reduce conflicts over...