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...

ER Mapper has appointed DataNet Solutions as its new reseller for the southern African region with headquarters in Cape Town and a subsidiary office in Johannesburg. DataNet Solutions is a...

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...

Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions (AL, USA) has introduced the 3D photogrammetric Z/I Mouse to simplify digitising and data capture in stereo. With a radical ergonomic design, this mouse represents...

The Nature Conservancy, an international non-profit organisation, is using DigitalGlobe’s QuickBird satellite imagery to assess biological diversity and conservation progress in several regions throughout the USA and elsewhere. Satellite imagery...

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...

The Spatial Information System (S.I.S) Group in Saudi Arabia has bought fourteen Thales (CA, USA) internet-enabled Continuous Geodetic Reference Stations (iCGRS) fitted with choke ring antennas, and three Thales Z-Max...

In November last year China successfully put into orbit the third of its ZY-2 second transmitting-type remote sensing satellites. China launched the first and second ZY-2 satellites in September 2000...

Around six hundred participants attended the fifth conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) held in Nairobi, Kenya from 17th to 22nd October 2004. The...