The Miage Glacier at Mont Blanc Massif, with an area totalling 11km2, is the third largest glacier in Italy. Time-space modelling of the lakebed and glacier walls carried out with...

I-SiTE Studio software, a product of Maptek Pty (Australia), was recently used by a team of engineers and researchers sponsored by the US National Science Foundation to map structural and...

Model-based object recognition is a beautiful concept. From sensory input data such as imagery and laser point clouds, features are extracted, grouped and organised into constructs that may correspond to...

Model-based object recognition is a beautiful concept. From sensory input data such as imagery and laser point clouds, features are extracted, grouped and organised into constructs that may correspond to...

CyberCity (Switzerland) has presented its interface to SOCET SET/SOCET GXP of BAE Systems. Using this software development, point clouds - photogrammetrically measured in SOCET SET as .gams files - can...

NASA and university scientists are using space- and aircraft-based ‘remote-sensing’ technology to uncover remains of ancient Maya ruins in Central America, using the chemical signature of the civilization's ancient building...

The High-Definition Surveying Division of Leica Geosystems AG (Switzerland) has announced the full commercial release of Cyclone 5.3 software. Cyclone 5.3 streamlines workflows for creating as-built and topographic survey deliverables...

Leica Geosystems (CA, USA) and AVEVA (TX, USA) have jointly announced Leica CloudWorx for AVEVA PDMS. This new software application integrates with AVEVA’s Plant Design Management System (PDMS) to enable...

EarthData International (EarthData) is awarded of a US$16 million contract by the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia to produce the first-ever high-resolution image and terrain maps of Papua New...

The US Geological Survey (USGS) now offers, at no cost, selected Landsat 4, 5 and 7 satellite data. Orthorectified Landsat data are available for free download from the Global Visualization...