ASPRS (MD, USA) has released version 1.1 of the ASPRS Lidar Data Exchange Format Standard (LAS). This binary data exchange format is an industry standard for the exchange of lidar...

ESRI (CA, USA) has announced that ArcGIS 9.1 is now available. ArcGIS 9.1 is a full release of ArcGIS Desktop (ArcReader, ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo), ArcGIS Engine, ArcGIS Server, ArcIMS,...

Toposcopy combines geo-referenced visualisation and close-range photogrammetry, using low-cost digital camera and CAD data. It has recently been successfully used to reconstruct a simulated traffic accident from video images. The...

Founded in 1991, Jena-Optronik GmbH originates in the space department of Carl Zeiss Jena, Jenoptik and DASA (later part of today’s EADS). In 2005 Jenoptik AG took over all shares...

Early in 2002 the government of the autonomous region of Catalonia (Spain) began the IDEC project (SDI of Catalonia). The first year was devoted to general planning and preparation and...

China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) has embarked on Digital China, an ambitious project listed in China's 10th five-year plan that aims to map the entire country digitally....

The Miage Glacier at Mont Blanc Massif, with an area totalling 11km2, is the third largest glacier in Italy. Time-space modelling of the lakebed and glacier walls carried out with...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (MA, USA) invites additional participation in a Web Processing Service Interoperability Experiment to test and refine a draft implementation specification enabling geoprocessing via the internet. Participants...

Intergraph Corporation (AL, USA) has announced that the company is realigning its organisational structure and streamlining its global operations from four to two divisions – Process, Power & Marine (PP&M)...

IONIC (Belgium) has released RedSpider Web version 3.2, with support for both English and French. The product offers the functionality for building an interoperable Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) within an...