Scale and Level of Detail
Since mankind exchanged his hunting and gathering existence for a life of land cultivation, enabling him to settle permanently on one spot, he has felt a need to portray the...
Since mankind exchanged his hunting and gathering existence for a life of land cultivation, enabling him to settle permanently on one spot, he has felt a need to portray the...
Early autumn this year saw two ISPRS Commissions, III and V, holding their quadrennial symposia, both in Germany; Commission III gathered in Bonn and Commission V in Dresden. Photogrammetric Vision...
Where just two decades ago spatial data was mainly carried on paper maps, map and three-dimensional topographic data is now accessible via Google Earth. Where accurate positioning was once the...
NovAtel (Canada) has received an order for additional Space Based Augmentation System (SBAS) equipment from Raytheon Company (MA, USA) in support of the Indian Geostationary Earth Orbit Augmented Navigation (GAGAN)...
Natural disaster can be defined as any occurrence causing decay of usability and productivity of land and structures built upon it, and injury or loss of human life. Disasters also...
Rapidly evolving technologies such as Web services transform the former digital-map toolbox for specialists into a challenging digital peep-box for everyone. Introduced in 2005, Google Earth is one of the...
The geomatics profession is implicated in several ISO standards. The important ISO9001: 2000 prescribes regular instrument testing and calibration. To help meet required stringent alignment tolerances, a modern calibration bench...
One of the main topics discussed at the Survey and GIS Summit preceding the ESRI User Conference 2006 (see my report in the October issue) was the reluctance of youngsters...
Collecting, processing, managing and distributing information and transforming it into relevant support for decision making constitutes the nerve system of society at local, regional, national and global scale. Of increasing...
Reading these columns you must have noticed by now that the International Cartographic Association (ICA) has many different faces when it comes to maps - not so strange if you...
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