Based in Beijing, China, SinoMaps Press, the largest and oldest map publisher in the country, this year in December celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. The press produces 90% of China’s total...

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded a contract to Space Imaging (CO, USA) to provide high-resolution IKONOS satellite imagery of Alaska for the USDA’s Natural Resources Inventory (NRI)...

Forest fires, illegal logging, rehabilitation of degraded land and watershed management are worldwide problems, monitoring being aided by modern technology including earth observation from space, image processing software, GIS and...

The last quarter century has seen a stupendous development in the field of global positioning technology and today it is almost a taken for granted service by a global positional...

The land surveying and registration system in Namibia covers only part of the country. There is frustration at the slow pace of planning, survey and registration of land rights and...

In the last quarter of 2004, Fugro (The Netherlands) completed the survey of more than 100,000 kilometres using their helicopter-based laser altimetry system FLI-MAP. The 100,000th kilometre was surveyed for...

Galileo Group, Inc. (FL, USA) and Forest One, Inc. (MS, USA) have partnered to provide assistance to government agencies and private companies attempting to recover from Hurricane Katrina. The partnership...

Leica Geosystems (CA, USA) and AVEVA (TX, USA) have jointly announced Leica CloudWorx for AVEVA PDMS. This new software application integrates with AVEVA’s Plant Design Management System (PDMS) to enable...

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...

China has begun a scientific investigation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, including a precise assessment of the height of Qomolangma, the world's highest peak, known as Mount Everest. Qomolangma Peak is...