In the city of Manica, a planning exercise based on the principles of participatory community planning is currently taking place in the Josina Machel neighbourhood. The city is one of...

The eighth in the series of annual Map India conferences was organised for the first time this year jointly with the Indian Society of Geomatics (ISG). The event took place...

Administrative reform within Europe has had a tremendous impact on land administration all over the continent. Geo-Spatial Data Infrastructures (GSDI) may bring further improvements. The authors review land policy, land...

Anomalies such as building-lean result from the processing of traditional orthorectified imagery and this limits its use in urban areas. However, the arrival of digital sensors has meant fully orthorectified...

The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and strategic partners, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the private sector, are designing and developing SensorNet,...

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (see websites) Technical Committee 211, Geographic Information and Geomatics Plenary Meeting was hosted by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission JRC (see...

Writing a text or revising a spreadsheet and saving it...editing a map or digital photo and saving it…a seemingly unlimited amount of data, all stored inside the computer on the...

Laser-Scan has contributed to the OGC interoperability specification process since 1996, playing a significant role in test-bed programmes and OGC contributions to ISO TC211. Within the context of OGC, Laser-Scan...

The first International Symposium on Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM) was held at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands from 21st to 23rd March 2005. More than three hundred participants...

Traditional methods of information management are hard to use in the planning process of problematic urban areas such as squatter settlements. GIS provides the capability for dynamic query and analysis,...