The National Authority for Surveying and Cadastre in the Czech Republic issued a tender in April 2004 for the establishment of CZEPOS, a nation-wide network reference stations for RTK GPS....

The majority of the world’s population will soon live in urban rather than rural areas. Adding a spatial dimension to population estimates, a new study finds that as much as...

There is general agreement that spatial data is key to sustainable resource management and overall economic development. A Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) in turn provides the underlying foundation for accessing...

A new laboratory method for verifying the accuracy of distance measuring solves the problem of having to mount reflectors outside the laboratory. The limited space of the laboratory is duplicated...

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...

NAVTEQ (IL, USA) released an enhanced map of Mexico to its direct customers for integration into navigation and location-based solutions. In addition to providing the road network of Mexico City,...

Aerial photography company BlueSky (UK) has created a series of contour maps, terrain models and perspective views from archived black and white aerial photography to aid site and infrastructure development...

Layton Graphics, Inc. (GA, USA) has announced the latest release of MAP2PDF for Acrobat, version 2.1. The new version of MAP2PDF includes new features intended to make GeoPDF even more...

Tele Atlas (NH, USA) has announced an enhanced collaboration with infoUSA to incorporate millions of Points Of Interest (POIs) into its digital map database. infoUSA (NE, USA), a provider of...

Airborne 1 Corporation (CA, USA) has announced the release of QT Modeler 4.0, an enhanced 3-D Lidar Visualisation Package. The new version offers users an efficient tool for importing, viewing...