Sokkia (KS, USA) has announced the GSR2700 RS, its new GPS reference station. The station includes a dual-frequency GPS receiver, a Pentium-based PC with 80GB hard drive, and a 19”...

Based in Beijing, China, SinoMaps Press, the largest and oldest map publisher in the country, this year in December celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. The press produces 90% of China’s total...

Topcon (The Netherlands) has released the FC-2000, a rugged Windows CE field computer designed specifically for surveying applications. The new model will replace the FC-1000. It features a full-colour 320x240...

Based in Beijing, China, SinoMaps Press, the largest and oldest map publisher in the country, this year in December celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. The press produces 90% of China’s total...

One of the main recommendations put forward at the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space – UNISPACE III – was the need to...

Traditional methods of information management are hard to use in the planning process of problematic urban areas such as squatter settlements. GIS provides the capability for dynamic query and analysis,...

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...

The newly established Belize Biodiversity Mapping Service makes spatially-enabled biodiversity information available via a public website. Students, NGOs and government agencies are the primary users. For financial sustainability, the BBMS...

The tsunami in Asia has once again demonstrated that human beings are at risk at any time, anywhere. Disasters in highly populated environments are difficult to manage using only small-scale...

The land surveying and registration system in Namibia covers only part of the country. There is frustration at the slow pace of planning, survey and registration of land rights and...