Plans for a new national, high-quality spatial address infrastructure building are announced by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), Ordnance Survey and the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA)...

Tele Atlas (Germany) has established a close co-operation with the Roskartographia agency, which is supervised by the Ministry of Transport in Russia. The result is that Tele Atlas is able...

The database vendor Oracle Corporation has for a long time shown a strong interest in geospatial data storage. For a fuller picture of the spatial aspects of their latest product,...

The database vendor Oracle Corporation has for a long time shown a strong interest in geospatial data storage. For a fuller picture of the spatial aspects of their latest product,...

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...

Aerial photography company BlueSky (UK) has created a series of contour maps, terrain models and perspective views from archived black and white aerial photography to aid site and infrastructure development...

The 4th International Symposium on Digital Earth was held in Tokyo, Japan from 28th to 31st March 2005 (see review 'Digital Earth Facing Challenges' July 2005). The head of the...

The 4th International Symposium on Digital Earth was held in Tokyo, Japan from 28th to 31st March 2005 (see review 'Digital Earth Facing Challenges' July 2005). The head of the...

Leica Geosystems AG (Switzerland) is rejecting the bid by Hexagon of Sweden as it undervalues the company and materially reduces its growth and development prospects. A combination with Hexagon would...

Use of the digital camera Vexcel UltraCam D was introduced in early 2004 by Aerodata International Surveys. Up until then solely analogue photo cameras such as the Zeiss LMK 2000...