For the past ten years, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee 211, Geographic information/Geomatics has been working on standards development. It is now completing an initial set of...

RADARSAT-2, Canada’s second Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Earth observation satellite will offer users imaging flexibility and increased data information content, ensuring continuity of all existing RADARSAT-1 beam modes along with...

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 ILRIS-3D laser scanner was launched in 1999 as a measuring system for 3D-point cloud collection. In October 2004 Optech launched its second-generation, tripod-mounted laser scanner, the ILRIS-36D. But getting...

Population explosion and rapid urbanisation in India over the past two decades has introduced problems associated with informal settlements. Lack of local authority current and accurate databases complicates any preventative...

To monitor the environmental changes and find solutions in the vulnerable Sahel region, the AGRHYMET institute (AGRiculture, HYdrology and METorology) was established thirty years ago. AGRHYMET aims at collecting, processing...

Info-Dynamics Research Associates Ltd (I-DRA) are engaged in a number of standards and interoperability activities, including a recently funded INSPIRE-GMES data harmonisation project within the European Union 6th RTD Framework...

To be honest, I had completely overlooked the link as well. And that doesn’t say much for me, a historian by trade. Okay, a few months as publication director with...

Modelling is a well-proven and widely accepted engineering technique for controlling complex reality. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose aid for graphical modelling. The author presents a use case...

STAR INFORMATIC (Belgium) has announced that the Mapping Production Association 'Kartografija' (MPA Kartografija) from the Russian Federation has chosen to implement Mercator in its cartographic production process. MPA Kartografija is...