Until the end of the nineties, high-end systems in the aviation, security and maritime sectors were custom-built, monolithic proprietary software systems that were expensive to develop and maintain. With the...

The British Columbia (BC) Integrated Land Management Bureau is adding additional Galdos (a product of Galdos Systems, Canada) components to its current spatial database environment called the iTRIM (intelligent Terrain...

ESRI (CA, USA) has made available ArcGIS 9.2, which includes new productivity tools, data visualisation and analysis capabilities, cartographic tools, coordinate storage, and expanded support for standards. This release also...

The recently completed Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP), funded through a 750,000USD Co-operative Agreement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is an innovative, standards-based data provisioning portal for...

Contex’ WIDEimageNET and JETimageNET are now compatible with the newest version of the JPEG format—JPEG 2000. JPEG 2000 uses 'wavelet' technology, and as well as being better at compressing images...

The US Geological Survey (USGS) now offers, at no cost, selected Landsat 4, 5 and 7 satellite data. Orthorectified Landsat data are available for free download from the Global Visualization...

On 23rd October 2007, at the annual Geoint Symposium, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc (OGC) announced that Microsoft Corporation had joined the organisation as a Principal Member. This important milestone...

More than 25% of EU legislation has a tech-nical or scientific basis, and this trend is likely to continue as policies increasingly cut across several disciplines. JRC The mission of...

The US Department of the Interior has selected ESRI (CA, USA) to develop full implementation of the Geospatial One-Stop Operational Portal (GOS 2), providing new ways of sharing geospatial information...

Application fields for spatial data are very broad and quality aspects are important because the usability of results depends upon them. In the international arena there is increasing attention for...