Surveying/geomatics education programmes for the training of professional surveyors in Australia were introduced in each state in the second half of the twentieth century, replacing an articled pupil system that...

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...

The Intergeo congress and trade-fair has now been held a dozen times and the event once again this year demonstrated an exceptionally flourishing geomatics business. Geomatics is all about improving...

On 20th December 2005 Leica Geosystems announced a partnership with Ordnance Survey to offer commercial delivery of a GPS network solution across Great Britain. The network now consists of over...

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...

The Schools of Topography, Geodesy and Cartography (both civil and military) in Spain, Portugal and Ibero-America have traditionally been in charge of the training of specialists in capturing and visualising...

Optech Incorporated (Canada) and Codevintec SRL (Italy) have announced the establishment of a European service and repair centre for all ILRIS-3D and ILRIS-36D three-dimensional laser scanner products. The service centre...

The XXIII Congress of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) will be held in Munich, Germany from 8–13 October 2006. The congress will be hosted by the DVW – German...

Following exchanges that lasted for six months, negotiations on the Republic of Korea’s participation in Europe’s satellite radionavigation programme reached an approval. The agreement which paves the way for the...

2007 marked the thirteenth consecutive annual Intergeo. The venue for this major conference and trade-fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management, held this year from 24th to 28th September, shifts...