Applanix (Canada) has released Service Pack 1 for its POSPac 4.2 post-processing software, aimed at airborne and land-based POS users operating a variety of sensors such as aerial cameras, LiDAR,...

Autodesk (CA, USA) and Microsoft (WA, USA) have announced a cross-licensing agreement enabling each company to broaden its product offerings. Through this arrangement Autodesk and Microsoft will promote the exchange...

Trimble (CA, USA), in a cash transaction, is to acquire the privately held Pacific Crest Corporation (CA, USA). Financial terms have not been disclosed. Pacific Crest Corporation has two core...

The European Space Agency (France) and Galileo Industries have signed a € 150m contract as a first six-month stage towards signing an approximately € 950m contract covering the overall In-Orbit...

Applanix (Canada) has launched its POS LV 200 system (Position and Orientation System for Land Vehicles). The system is intended for upgrading survey vehicles that already incorporate GPS and DMI...

Some fifteen years ago I was president of The Netherlands Society for Photogrammetry. At that time there was some concern that photogrammetry was taught only at university and not at...

Kingswood MapMechanics (UK) has extended its range of digital road and street map data sets. Many of its data sets cover remote parts of the world. Afghanistan and Iraq are...

Intergraph Corporation (AL, USA) has elected Kevin M. Twomey to its board of directors. Mr Twomey is president, COO & CFO of the St. Joe Company, one of Florida's largest...

BAE Systems (CA, USA) has released version 5.2 of its SOCET SET digital photogrammetric software application. The new version comprises a module for 3D-feature collection in ESRI’s ArcMap environment. In...

China and Brazil plan to launch three satellites in the coming few years to gather information on the Earth's environment, agriculture and urban development. These launches include the 02B, 03...