A Land Administration System (LAS) consolidating rights to rural land has been developed in the Amhara Region in Ethiopia. Since the start of the project in 2002 over 2.4 million...

Since its launch in June 2005 Google Earth has attracted not only the millions of people across the world who fly virtually across continents and jump over mountains, but has...

IDELIX Software Inc. (Canada) has announced that Christopher P. Haakon, a member of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Transformation Advisory Group and former CEO and General Manager of Boeing Autometric...

GAF AG (Germany) in co-operation with the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources of Germany (BGR) has been awarded a consulting service contract by the World Bank (IDA) funded...

Although operational for more than twenty years, Airborne Lidar Bathymetry (ALB) has rarely been used in riverine areas. The US Bureau of Reclamation adopted it to study how flow change...

A conference organised by the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy on Promoting Sustainable Land Management in Africa took place in Bagamoyo, Tanzania from March 13th to 17th 2006....

eSpatial Solutions Ltd focuses on geospatial technology based on industry-standard IT infrastructure. Established in April 1997, the company is a subsidiary of one of Ireland’s leading investment houses, International Investment...

GeoAnalytics, Inc. (WI, USA) has signed a business partnership agreement with SAS Institute Inc. (NC, USA). GeoAnalytics offers management and technical consulting for enterprise systems, as well as web-based and...

Programmes at European and national government level are signalling opportunities, setting policies and taking measures to capture the benefits of ICT. In tandem with societal demands, this will lead to...

CEOP (Coordinated Enhanced Observation Period) is currently working on an integrated global water and energy-cycle observation system for scientific and civilian use. One challenge is the creation of a satellite-data...