Intermap Technologies, Inc. (CO, USA) has entered an agreement with CyberCity 3D LLC to use Intermap’s elevation models in conjunction with ViewTec’s TerrainView software to create precision 3-D visualisation models...

Pentax Corporation, now so well known for its survey instruments, was founded in 1919 in Tokyo as Asahi Optical Joint Stock Co, mainly as a manufacturer of cameras. In 1938...

3D laser scanning is a powerful measurement technology for obtaining 3D coordinates of object points at a speed of up to 5,000 points per second. But surveyors see lack of...

‘Knowledge and Action for the Earth’ is the theme of Intergeo 2006, the annual geodesy and geo-information conference and trade-fair organised in association with the German Association of Surveying (DVW)...

QCoherent Software (Co, USA) has released LP360 version 1.3, a Lidar extension for ArcGIS. LP360 employs a specially designed ArcMap data layer to access and draw LIDAR points directly from...

Visual Learning Systems Inc. (VLS) has released Lidar Analyst 4.1, which is now available to automatically extract features and more. Lidar Analyst completely automates the collection of attributed 3-D buildings,...

kubit GmbH (Germany) has establishment an USA office in Houston, Texas. Besides TachyCAD, surveying tool for directly inputting existing conditions into CAD systems, kubit develops PhoToPlan for rectifying photographic images...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), have selected the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Science Team. These scientists and engineers will...

EarthData International (EarthData) (MD, USA) has been awarded a US$4.3 million contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to map portions of one of South America’s largest countries using the...

Leica Geosystems (Switzerland) has presented two new point cloud software modules: Leica TruView and Cyclone PUBLISHER, designed to open the value of rich, as-built point cloud data to the masses...