The CBERS Programme, a co-operative Chinese-Brazilian Earth Resources Satellites Programme with versatile cameras, has realised a vast success of the Brazilian data distribution policy that is leveraging research and business...

One of the main recommendations put forward at the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space – UNISPACE III – was the need to...

GIS is a very useful tool in the planning of urban conservation. GIS includes integration of vector and raster data, geographical referencing, correction and spatial adjustment. GIS analysis tools and...

Disasters are of all ages. When they strike, more often than not they strike suddenly and ruthlessly. The damage disasters cause fills us with deep awe for the unimaginable forces...

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...

Medical applications such as bedsore analysis often require 3D surface reconstruction of the human body. Major surface reconstruction techniques are based on mechanical digitizers, laser scanners and vision systems, including...

Anomalies such as building-lean result from the processing of traditional orthorectified imagery and this limits its use in urban areas. However, the arrival of digital sensors has meant fully orthorectified...

Surveyors working on busy roads are constantly subjected to close misses from passing traffic; it can be worse. Helicopter photogrammetry is a survey technique designed to prevent fatalities. A complete,...

Forest fires, illegal logging, rehabilitation of degraded land and watershed management are worldwide problems, monitoring being aided by modern technology including earth observation from space, image processing software, GIS and...

The first permanent earth observation satellite, today known as Landsat 1, was launched 33 years ago. With a ground resolution of 80 metres, the Landsat Multispectral Scanner images provided an...