After twenty years existence, Vexcel Corporation has been taken over by giant of the information technology industry Microsoft. The acquisition, which turns Vexcel into a Microsoft subsidiary, was announced at...

The Committee on Development Information (CODI) is a unit within the UN Economic Commission for Africa, with three subcommittees on Statistics, Information Communication Technology, and Geo-Information. The first CODI meeting...

In the third year of its Small Grants Program, the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association (VA, USA) received nearly 100 applications representing practitioners from around the globe. The grants...

Request for Support for Surveyors The Surveyors' Institute of Sri Lanka has requested support from international surveyors' societies for survey professionals in Sri Lanka. Several members of the association lost...

This report covers the latest in a series of meetings on the use and applications of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) hosted by the United Nations Office for Outer Space...

INPHO (Germany) has announced launching of a new version of its fully automatic DTM generation software, MATCH-T 4.0. The major changes and improvements compared to the previous versions are: processing...

Mobile mappers are a recent development and their introduction demonstrates the vitality of the surveying profession. A number of leading geomatics companies accepted our invitation to participate in this, the...

A Forest Working Plan regulates wood production, silviculture and tending activities for a predefined period of time by specifying targets, actions and control arrangements. The author shows how GIS was...

On Deformation Measurements and Analysis/3rd IAG Symposium on Geodesy for Geotechnical and Structural Engineering A joint meeting of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), Commission 6, Working Group 6.1 on...

Information plays a key role in support of virtually any activity, in whatever nook or cranny of today’s society. About 80% of all public-sector information have geo-spatial component, referenced either...