Leica Geosystems (Switzerland) has launched GPS Spider v2.0, a modular software suite for controlling and operating single or multiple reference stations from a central location. This latest version includes the...

Vibrant creations from drawings and paintings to watercolour and knitting create a montage of subtle insight about the earth in the new ESRI Press book Children Map the World. The...

Intermap Technologies (CO, USA) has announced that the Canadian Government's National Research Council-Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) has awarded Intermap a contribution of US$ 454,000 for further research and development...

The subject of this Expert Group Meeting was the improvement of land tenure security through new legal frameworks and new and better tools. New land laws have recently come into...

As successor to the first GIS PLANET 98 conference, Planet 2005 took place in Estoril, the scenic beach resort on the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Lisbon, Portugal from 30th May...

Vexcel Corporation (CO, USA) has announced that Dr William B. Gail, formerly director at Ball Aerospace, has joined Vexcel as vice-president of Mapping and Photogrammetric Solutions. He will lead the...

A collection of USGS before-and-after satellite image pairs for 80 sites around the world is featured in a new atlas documenting global environmental changes released by the United Nations Environment...

Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) offer oversize opportunities for monitoring and managing many facets of our vulnerable world. Particularly in developing countries,...

Planning, designing and managing the urban environment require appropriate decision-making. Here the availability and use of three-dimensional (3D) geo-information in the form of 3D city models is crucial. The authors...

Forest fires, illegal logging, rehabilitation of degraded land and watershed management are worldwide problems, monitoring being aided by modern technology including earth observation from space, image processing software, GIS and...