In Austria many manmade objects such as roads and buildings are vulnerable to landslides caused by heavy rainstorms. These result from climate change and changes in geological structure. Using GIS,...

Image-based modelling is still the most widely used approach in building documentation and 3D investigations, but panoramic camera laser scanners are gaining in importance. They offer large fields of view,...

Airborne 1 (CA, USA) in key partnership with Ambercore Software Inc. (Canada), released LiDAR XLR8R 3.0, a Lidar data management, analysis, and visualisation tool for Lidar and geospatial data consumers....

Adverse weather and terrain conditions meant the Cano-Limon oil pipeline in Colombia had never been accurately mapped until orthorectified images and digital elevation models covering an area of 94,000km2 were...

Intermap Technologies Corp. (CO, USA) has been selected by Apogee Imaging International to provide radar imagery and digital elevation data for areas of Indonesia destroyed by the tsunami in December...

On 30th November 2005 the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced Space Activities Commission (SAC) approval for launch of ‘Daichi’, Japan’s Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) within a time window...

Sierra Atlantic Ltd., the sole Indian distributor of RSI, has received certification for ENVI to be used to process data from the Indian CARTOSAT-1 satellite. The CARTOSAT-1 satellite provides stereo...

In September 2005 Blom Group consolidated its already firm position on the Geographical Information (GI) market within Europe by entering into an exclusive licencing agreement with US-based Pictometry for 23...

Monash University (Australia) has purchased an ER Mapper Educational Site License to assist in displaying satellite and airborne sensed data in a georeferenced environment. The ER Mapper Educational Site License...

The company Pictometry has patented an aerial imagery technology based on acquiring oblique digital images and primarily developed as an imagery visualisation tool. Oblique: I know what that is, but...