It is about thirty-five years since I left university with the Dutch equivalent of a MSc degree in Geodesy. Computers had just been introduced into our field and we were...

Trimble (CA, USA) has been chosen by the Polish National Office of Geodesy and Cartography, GUGiK, to supply 78 Continuous Operating Reference Station (CORS) receivers and Trimble VRS (Virtual Reference...

On 20th December 2005 Leica Geosystems announced a partnership with Ordnance Survey to offer commercial delivery of a GPS network solution across Great Britain. The network now consists of over...

Collecting, processing, managing and distributing information and transforming it into relevant support for decision making constitutes the nerve system of society at local, regional, national and global scale. Of increasing...

The Geo-Siberia 2007 conference and exhibition was held in Novosibirsk, Russian Federation from 25th to 27th April 2007. Organised by the Siberian State Academy of Geodesy (SSGA) in Novosibirsk, it...

Surveying/geomatics education programmes for the training of professional surveyors in Australia were introduced in each state in the second half of the twentieth century, replacing an articled pupil system that...

A Special Interest Group (SIG), “Technology Transfer Caravan”, was established in ISPRS Commission VI at the Congress in Istanbul in 2004. The SIG is chaired by Prof. Dr Armin Gruen,...

In 2005 ITC (International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation) Enschede, the Netherlands, became an associated institution of the United Nations University (UNU) in a co-operation focused on disaster...

Turkey has a rich archaeological and cultural heritage. However, a lack of experts in terrestrial survey, combined with technical deficiencies, result in inadequate documentation of heritage sites. Poorly operated terrestrial...

Time has been incorporated as a fourth dimension in the GIS systems of Arak municipality, Iran, and object-oriented concepts applied. The augmented system has resulted in better quality and an...