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...

‘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)...

Earthquakes are often followed by outbreaks of fire. In Japan such events are frequent and cities are very vulnerable to fire damage. Optimal use of fire-fighting resources is crucial, including...

MDA’s Geospatial Services (Canada) has announced that it will extend its RADARSAT-1 oil spill monitoring and detection services to the Canadian Arctic region in response to Transport Canada’s expansion of...

After twenty years existence, Vexcel Corporation has been taken over by giant of the information technology industry Microsoft. The acquisition, which turns Vexcel into a Microsoft subsidiary, was announced at...

The Board of Leica Geosystems AG (Switzerland) has announced a plan for a CHF 100m (US$ 77,117,747.62) share buyback of up to 10% of the capital of the company, to...

Topcon (CA, USA) has launched the 2005 Technology Roadshow series. Several Roadshows have already taken place and new events will continue through the summer and fall of this year. This...

On Deformation Measurements and Analysis/3rd IAG Symposium on Geodesy for Geotechnical and Structural Engineering A joint meeting of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), Commission 6, Working Group 6.1 on...

Bhoomi is one of the largest property-information databases in the world, containing land-administration information on twenty million parcels owned by 6.7 million farmers in 176 sub-districts of Karnataka State, India....

In his foreword to the programme for this international conference, Prof. Paul van der Molen, chair of FIG’s Commission 7 on Cadastre and Land Management, highlighted how difficult it could...