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Key Role for GIS in Developing Africa

Around six hundred participants attended the fifth conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) held in Nairobi, Kenya from 17th to 22nd October 2004. The...

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ArcGIS 9 Business Analyst

ESRI (CA, USA) has made available its ArcGIS Business Analyst desktop software for the ArcGIS 9 platform. The functionality includes a processing framework for modelling and scripting, spatial statistics tools,...

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Coping with Disaster

Writing the second edition of our GIS and Science textbook with three colleagues made me acutely aware of two very different approaches to exploiting GIS when we suffer major disasters:...

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Daratech GIS Forecast

Daratech Inc (MA, USA) forecasts that total GIS core-business revenue will top $2.02 billion in 2004, an increase of 9.7% over 2003. According to Daratech estimates, 2003 revenues reached US$...

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Europe's Changing Landscape

The European Environment Agency (EEA), assisted by the European Space Agency Earth Observation Directorate, has published the Image2000 survey, a new virtual atlas that shows trends in the way Europeans...

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Web-based GIS

The next phase in GIS development on the internet should restore user freedom and give a fully comprehensive overview of geo-objects originating anywhere and containing all relevant information. It should...

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Global Standards for Hazard Detection

The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and strategic partners, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the private sector, are designing and developing SensorNet,...

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Geo-data, Disasters, and Beyond

Disaster risks stem from sudden energy release in one of the three basic environmental compartments: air, water and land. Today risk assessment, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery are of major...

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TeliaSonera Deploys ArcIMS

ESRI Sweden has deployed the ArcIMS Open Location Services (OpenLS) connector as part of a project to improve TeliaSonera mapping engine capabilities for location-based services across Scandinavia. Together with Tele...

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Megha-Tropiques Mission

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the French National Space Centre (CNES) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to proceed with the development and implementation of the joint...

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