A digital photogrammetric system is defined by ISPRS as: hardware and software designed to derive photogrammetric products from digital imagery using manual and automated techniques. Today the trend is to...

GeoTango (Canada), a supplier of 3D building and visualisation software, has announced that it has released SilverEye 2.3. SilverEye generates 3D building models from single scene high resolution satellite and...

AmberCore Software (Canada), a global provider of spatial decision support systems, has announced the release of Amber iQ 2.5. Amber iQ 2.5 was designed with GIS power-users in mind, and...

The Miage Glacier at Mont Blanc Massif, with an area totalling 11km2, is the third largest glacier in Italy. Time-space modelling of the lakebed and glacier walls carried out with...

Planning, designing and managing the urban environment require appropriate decision-making. Here the availability and use of three-dimensional (3D) geo-information in the form of 3D city models is crucial. The authors...

A Lidar sensor generates hundreds of millions of XYZ coordinates in a few hours. From this massive number of sampled points one wants to reconstruct surfaces Lidar points are described...

The 32nd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment will be held from 25th to 29th June 2007 in San Jose, Costa Rica. The Call-for-Papers and other information are posted...

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) is emerging as a highly cost-effective 3D mapping technology. Digital elevation models and ortho-rectified radar imagery are core commercial Intermap Technologies products using its airborne...

The present product survey provides the main characteristics of today’s high-resolution imagery acquired from orbiting platforms. A clear trend is the ongoing improvement of pixel size, also called Ground Sample...

Notwithstanding firm managerial confidence that it would keep its independence, on 14th February 2007 INPHO GmbH found itself acquired by Trimble. We went to Trimble's main European office in Raunheim,...