ESRI (CA, USA) and its international distributors are supporting response to the recent Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami disaster by working with government agencies and disaster relief organisations to provide...

DM Solutions Group (Canada) and the University of Ottawa (Canada) have released a Tsunami Disaster Mapping Portal (DMapP). This interactive, internet-based infrastructure provides free access to current and historical spatial...

Airborne 1 Corporation (CA, USA) now distributes QT Modeler and QT Reader, two developments from John Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Lab (APL) that enable visualisation of high-resolution 3D LiDAR data....

Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping (GA, USA) has appointed Jim Farley vice-president business development. Mr Farley has spent more than twenty years in the information technology industry in both mainstream...

Building upon a successful multinational enterprise contract signed four years ago, ESRI (CA, USA) and Shell International Exploration and Production (The Netherlands) have agreed to expand their relationship. The two...

The Società Generale d’Informatica S.p.A. (SOGEI), a division of the Italian Ministry of Finance, has renewed and expanded its use of Xmarc. The contract renewal for approximately € 300,000 provides...

Applanix (Canada) has launched its POS LV 200 system (Position and Orientation System for Land Vehicles). The system is intended for upgrading survey vehicles that already incorporate GPS and DMI...

Some fifteen years ago I was president of The Netherlands Society for Photogrammetry. At that time there was some concern that photogrammetry was taught only at university and not at...

The IDB, the Inter-American Development Bank (DC, USA) has announced the approval of a US$ 3.5 million loan to the Bahamas. The project aims at strengthening the technical capacity of...

GeoAnalytics, Inc. (WI, USA) has signed a business partnership agreement with SAS Institute Inc. (NC, USA). GeoAnalytics offers management and technical consulting for enterprise systems, as well as web-based and...