In November 2004 an Expert Group Meeting on Secure Land Tenure was held at UN Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. The focus of this meeting was to discuss new legal frameworks...

In November 2004 an Expert Group Meeting on Secure Land Tenure was held at UN Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. The focus of this meeting was to discuss new legal frameworks...

The ECOLAB 2004 Congress was held in Cayenne, French Guyana, from 30th November to 5th December with the objective of exchanging scientific progress on the management and conservation of Amazonian...

A new ESRI Press book, Designing Geodatabases-Case Studies in GIS Data Modeling presents a compendium of best practices in geodatabase design based on ArcGIS. The book begins by outlining the...

To monitor the environmental changes and find solutions in the vulnerable Sahel region, the AGRHYMET institute (AGRiculture, HYdrology and METorology) was established thirty years ago. AGRHYMET aims at collecting, processing...

GIS specialists in Africa are quickly seeing the horizon with respect to Geospatial Data Infrastructure (GDI); it is the bottom line that is proving elusive. Financial, budgeting and accounting measures...

LizardTech (WA, USA) has released its Express Server ArcIMS 9.0 Integration Toolkit. The current version provides a performance improvement over previous versions and decreases the load on users’ ArcIMS services....

Ricoh Corporation (CA, USA) has launched the Pro G3, a high-resolution digital camera that embeds captured images with GPS coordinate information received from either its on-board GPS unit or from...

Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping (GA, USA) has announced updates to version 8.7 of its ERDAS Imagine and Leica Photogrammetry Suite (LPS). Both the Imagine 8.7 Service Pack 2 and...

DeLorme (ME, USA) has released the XMap OpenSpace Database Integration Kit, which allows automatically updating geographic data managed within the OpenSpace database by means of Microsoft SQL Server. The Integration...