The collection of Ground Control Points (GCP) for block adjustment is a costly and time-consuming operation. Onboard GPS enables a reduction in the number of GCPs without loss of accuracy....

After more than two years of development the first official release of the next generation implementation of GRASS has been published. The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, commonly referred to...

Mercy Corps (OR, USA) is requesting financial contributions to assist the ongoing emergency response of the Mercy Corps Geospatial Relief & Development Team in South Asia. The organisation currently has...

Leica Geosystems (Switzerland) has launched GPS Spider v2.0, a modular software suite for controlling and operating single or multiple reference stations from a central location. This latest version includes the...

Blue Marble Geographics (ME, USA) has released cross-platform versions of its coordinate conversion libraries GeoCalc 6.0, including Windows, Linux, Mac and COM. The first release in August 2004 was on...

The pan-European research platform EuroSDR (European Spatial Data Research) will host a forthcoming international conference on merging map data from different sources, especially the satellite-based GPS. The conference, “Achieving geometric...

Global Marketing Insights (OH, USA) has launched a comprehensive research study of international remote sensing markets for aerial and satellite data. The study follows a contract with the US National...

Fastrax Ltd. (Finland) has announced the latest versions of the Fastrax iSuite 3 SDK and iTrax03 GPS receiver firmware with numerous new features and updates that significantly improve GPS reception...

The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association has announced the GSDI Small Grants Program for the year 2005. The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association is dedicated to international co-operation and...

ESRI (CA, USA) has announced MapObjects-Java Edition Version 2.1. MapObjects-Java Edition is a collection of pure Java client and server-side components used to build custom, cross platform mapping and GIS...