On January 12th 2006 came the announcement that Orbimage had acquired Space Imaging. The newly formed company, GeoEye, flies the high-resolution Ikonos, Orbview-3 satellites and Orbview-2. In 2007 it will...

Cadcorp (UK) has announced a new and free solution for managing OS MasterMap data: the Cadcorp SIS OS MasterMap Database. A Cadcorp SIS OS MasterMap Database is a relational database...

Xerox Corporation (UK) has introduced the Xerox 8160 and 8142 Wide Format Colour Printers. The 8142 prints at widths of up to 42 inches. The 8160 has a printing width...

Leica Geosystems Ltd (UK) has won a contract to supply surveying equipment valued at £640,000 (US$ 1,206,604.61) to University of Nottingham’s Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy (IESSG). The...

The 3rd DiMENSIon Conference was held in Paris on 28th and 29th October 2004. This was an event related to 3D scanning, bringing together users of the Trimble 3D scanning...

Trimble (CA, USA) and UK-based Cambridge Positioning Systems Limited (CPS) have announced plans to jointly develop new products that will deliver Enhanced Global Positioning System (E-GPS) location for asynchronous networks...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a contract for the next phase of the development of the Galileo Test User Receivers to a consortium led by Septentrio (Belgium), a...

In a world where everyone is constantly on the move, simulation and analysis of characteristics of the movement of objects is increasingly important, not only for behaviour forecast and policy/decision-making...

Carlson Software (UK) has announced the release of Carlson SurvCADD 2006. Carlson SurvCADD 2006 consists of modules for surveying, civil engineering, construction and mining, and runs inside AutoCAD 2006, the...

The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) (MA, USA) invites public comment on a candidate specification that will soon be presented for approval by OGC members as an OpenGIS Implementation Specification...