3D Nature’s (CO, USA) Visual Nature Studio 2.5 (VNS2) now includes ER Mapper’s Image Web Server and it’s streaming imagery protocol (ECWP). The images can be served from within a...

A NASA-funded study found that Greenland's largest outlet glacier, Jakobshavn Isbrae, has doubled its speed of ice flow between 1997 and 2003. The study used data from satellites and airborne...

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...

China and Brazil plan to launch three satellites in the coming few years to gather information on the Earth's environment, agriculture and urban development. These launches include the 02B, 03...

Space Imaging Middle East (SIME) (Dubai) signed a co-operation agreement with Khatib&Alami (K&A) (Lebanon), a multidisciplinary architectural and engineering consulting company with long-term expertise in GIS. SIME will become K&A’s...

The EU's Transport, Telecommunic-ations and Energy Council has given permission to the Commission to open negotiations with the Ukraine on a 'co-operation agreement' relating to the development of Europe's satellite...

The USA and the Russian Federation intend to begin preliminary discussions on an agreement for co-operation between the GPS and Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS). Both countries intend to work...

Kingswood MapMechanics (UK) has extended its range of digital road and street map data sets. Many of its data sets cover remote parts of the world. Afghanistan and Iraq are...

Euromap, a wholly owned subsidiary of GAF AG and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), have started receiving data from the IRS-P6 Resourcesat-1, the new Indian Remote Sensing Satellite. Indian satellite...

The Nature Conservancy, an international non-profit organisation, is using DigitalGlobe’s QuickBird satellite imagery to assess biological diversity and conservation progress in several regions throughout the USA and elsewhere. Satellite imagery...