Racurs is privately owned company established from scratch in Moscow in 1993 without any start-up capital. The four founders, with backgrounds in the Russian defence industry and the Russian Academy...

‘Knowledge and Action for the Earth’ is the theme of Intergeo 2006, the annual geodesy and geo-information conference and trade-fair organised in association with the German Association of Surveying (DVW)...

HP (FL, USA) has introducted the HP Designjet 4500 Printer series. This latest addition to the HP Designjet large-format printer family combines high-throughput colour printing, copying and scanning to meet...

Global Relief Technologies (GRT) (MD, USA) is teaming with GeoEye Inc. (VA, USA) and Telenor Satellite Services (MD, USA) to deliver timely satellite imagery to emergency relief workers operating in...

Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) is a European programme that deals with natural hazards, humanitarian aid, environmental protection, risk and disaster management, and security. The authors have analysed...

This report covers the latest in a series of meetings on the use and applications of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) hosted by the United Nations Office for Outer Space...

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...

The area of agricultural fields within the European Union (EU) are checked against claims to ensure that farmers receive the right amount of subsidies. This measure, stemming from EU Common...

The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) has launched the ASPRS Foundation, Inc., an independently registered entity that will raise, invest, and grant funds to the ASPRS Awards...

Version 2.0 of Leica GeoMoS has been released. This is a solution for multi-sensor structural monitoring using a range of high precision geodetic instruments from Leica Geosystems and third-party sensors....