The Geological Society of America (GSA) conferred the 2015 Bromery Award for Minorities on Esri chief scientist Dawn J. Wright. The award recognises Dr Wright's lifetime accomplishments that have advanced geologic and...

Nepal is prone to earthquakes and throughout the centuries the country’s capital city, Kathmandu, has been regularly struck by earthquakes which appear to have similar epicentres and behaviour. The portion...

  On 18 June 2015 in Canberra, Australia, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Geoscience Australia signed a comprehensive partnership to maximise land remote sensing operations and data that can...

ESA and Australia's national geological survey, Geoscience Australia, have agreed to cooperate to ensure data from the EU’s Sentinel satellites are accessible in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. The agreement...

ISPRS Congress assembles every four years at some attractive location in the world, to welcome participants from all over the globe who meet to discover, report and exchange ideas on...

Willemijn Simon van Leeuwen is one of the founders and a director of GeoFort, a former Dutch defence fortress which has been transformed into an educational geo experience centre. At...

Australia now has a full suite of new gravity grids at the national scale, being the first publicly released since 2011. The new gravity data adds to the arsenal of...

At the 2nd Virtual Geology Conference (VGC 2016) from 22-23 September 2016, geomatics met the geosciences in the beautiful fjord town of Bergen in western Norway. This follow-up to the...

Today’s geospatial technology means that land administration systems can increasingly be implemented for the benefit of all. It is now possible to conceive approaches to capturing the unrecorded geometry of...

The Australian government will invest AUD12 million in a two-year programme looking into the future of positioning technology in Australia. From using Google Maps on their smartphone to emergency management and...