The X Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Geographic Information Systems (XIBCGIS) will take place in the San Juan City (Puerto Rico) on 6 to 9 September 2005. The organisation...

By the time you read this I hope you’ll have had plenty of opportunity to check out our (re)newed website www.gim-international.com. According to the hit figures, you must have; in...

Geography and history are sister disciplines. In fact, geography as a field of scientific research evolved from the study of history. Whereas geographers have the perspective of space, historians consider...

BRGM - French Geological Survey has announced the IGOS Geohazards Workshop which takes place at the BRGM Scientific and technical Centre from 27th-29th June 2005 in Orléans, France. This event...

The International Cartographic Conference is organised to be held in A Coruña, Spain from 11 to 16 July. The International Cartographic Conference is a global event dedicated to Geographic Information,...

The Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) (CO, USA) has announced that less then two weeks remain to submit paper abstracts for GITA’s Annual Conference 29, held at the Tampa...

The second annual Intergeo-East for professionals from south-eastern Europe, especially the former countries of Yugoslavia, took place at Zagrebac¢ki velesajam (Zagreb Fair), Croatia from 7th to 9th March 2005. Zagreb...

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...

Increasingly frequent disasters with attendant damage have heightened climate change related environmental and social vulnerability, emphasising the need for tools to support disaster management. In South Africa a National Disaster...

Petrobras, a Brazilian oil company, has extended its contract with RADARSAT International for the use of RADARSAT-1 data and services in support of its environmental program. The one-year extension is...