PCI Geomatics (Canada) has development and release of the SAR Polarimetry Workstation (SPW) as part of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Earth Observation Application Development Program (EOADP). The SPW is...

The information content of OrbView-3 and Ikonos imagery is compared, using the Zonguldak area in Turkey as test area. Although OrbView-3 images are qualitatively slightly inferior to Ikonos panchromatic scenes,...

Leica Geosystems (CA, USA) has announced the release of its addition to the Leica CloudWorx family of products, Leica CloudWorx 1.0 for Intergraph SmartPlant Review. This software solution enables viewing,...

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...

The annual Trimble Dimensions show was held from 6th to 8th November 2006 in the Convention Center at the Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas, USA. With the theme ‘Build Your Connected...

Lidar and other 3D-terrain data are increasingly available and trusted but still generate unwieldy volumes of data. Established in 2004, Applied Imagery provides powerful and simple software tools for visualising,...

MARS Viewer, a viewing application for Lidar and associated terrain data, will be released at the International LIDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) 2006. This has been announced by Merrick & Company...

This issue of GIM is largely devoted to emergent Lidar technology. We have a feature on 3D-visualisation of Lidar data co-authored by new contributing editor Dr Bharat Lohani of IIT...

The Joint Laboratory for GeoInformation Science (JLGIS) of Hong Kong signed a two-year ENVISAT data reception and distribution agreement with MDA's Geospatial Services (Canada). Data from the ASAR (A Synthetic...