The first International Symposium on Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM) was held at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands from 21st to 23rd March 2005. More than three hundred participants...

In Lombardy (Italy) one has started a project on risk-assessment of buildings of historical-architectural importance. For this purpose a Building Information System (BIS) has been created, based on archived and...

Capacity building is critical for success in introducing Geo-ICT applications. Governments will use the latest GIS, remote sensing and database technologies to support research, decision making and development. The mother...

Disaster risks stem from sudden energy release in one of the three basic environmental compartments: air, water and land. Today risk assessment, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery are of major...

DiMAC Systems s.à.r.l., a privately owned company established in Luxemburg in November 2003, focuses on developing and producing aerial digital cameras for photogrammetric and orthophoto requirements. The belief underpinning the...

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...

The 4th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE) was held in Tokyo, Japan from 28th to 31st March 2005 with the theme ‘Digital Earth as Global Commons’. The more than...

Anomalies such as building-lean result from the processing of traditional orthorectified imagery and this limits its use in urban areas. However, the arrival of digital sensors has meant fully orthorectified...

The CBERS Programme, a co-operative Chinese-Brazilian Earth Resources Satellites Programme with versatile cameras, has realised a vast success of the Brazilian data distribution policy that is leveraging research and business...

Today we can retrieve geo-information from databases, perhaps over the internet, quite literally at the speed of light. But such information must be ordered within a representative framework - a...