Laser-Scan has contributed to the OGC interoperability specification process since 1996, playing a significant role in test-bed programmes and OGC contributions to ISO TC211. Within the context of OGC, Laser-Scan...

Airborne Laser Solutions (South Africa) has undertaken the first aerial lidar survey project in its new Rockwell Aero Commander 1000 aircraft. This survey is required for the route selection and...

GeoDesy is part of Horváth Holding Group and is a privately held Hungarian company. It was founded when the state-owned Hungarian Optical Works was privatised in 1995. Its roots, however,...

Topcon (CA, USA) announces the GPT-7000i Digital Imaging Total Station. Topcon's new DIM (Digital Imaging Measurement) technology enables the operator to view a real-time image of the target object on...

The internationally supported African initiative Africa Reference Framework project (AFREF) aims at using GNSS to unify the coordinate reference systems within Africa to produce a uniform and consistent coordinate system...

The new Pentax R-300X series has been released, offering improved performance and a higher specification. Improvements over current models include increased on-board memory, to 20,000 points, 40% reduction in initial...

A NASA-funded study found that Greenland's largest outlet glacier, Jakobshavn Isbrae, has doubled its speed of ice flow between 1997 and 2003. The study used data from satellites and airborne...

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...

The Annual International ESRI User Conference takes place from 7 to 11 August in San Diego, California, US. At the accompanying exhibition many companies from all over the world present...

STAR INFORMATIC (Belgium) announces its commitment to the Open Spatial Enterprise approach for the native storage of data in Oracle Spatial and Locator format for both Oracle9i and Oracle Database...