STAR INFORMATIC (Belgium) has announced that its STAR-ELEC application for electricity network management has been selected by the Office National de l’Electricité in Morocco (O.N.E.). This contract aims to facilitate...

GIS Solutions (IL, USA) and ESRI (CA, USA) were selected by the Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) to develop GIS tools that will improve the effectiveness of a coordinated response...

In a world where everyone is constantly on the move, simulation and analysis of characteristics of the movement of objects is increasingly important, not only for behaviour forecast and policy/decision-making...

The last quarter century has seen a stupendous development in the field of global positioning technology and today it is almost a taken for granted service by a global positional...

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...

The European Commission has received the go-ahead to open negotiations with Ukraine on a 'co-operation agreement' relating to the development of Galileo, Europe's satellite navigation system. The agreement would comprise...

In November last year China successfully put into orbit the third of its ZY-2 second transmitting-type remote sensing satellites. China launched the first and second ZY-2 satellites in September 2000...

GeoTango International (Canada) introduced SAME (See Anywhere Map Everywhere), a network-centric system that allows performing 3D visualisation and interactive exploration of multiple data sources over a distributed network. The product...

Trimble (CA, USA), in a cash transaction, is to acquire the privately held Pacific Crest Corporation (CA, USA). Financial terms have not been disclosed. Pacific Crest Corporation has two core...

Kunming Surveying and Mapping Institute (China) has successfully established the first Leica Geosystems GPS reference station network in Kunming for pushing forward the digital city project in Kunming. This project...