Fugro (The Netherlands) has won contracts to provide geotechnical investigations for storm protection enhancements in the New Orleans district and in California. These contracts represent a total value of US$50...

Fugro has acquired Pavement Management Services Pty Ltd and associated companies (PMS). PMS was formed in 1981, currently employs forty staff and has annual revenue of approximately EUR 4 million....

RIEGL (Austria) has launched its new 3D laser scanner LMS-Z620, especially optimised for long range topography and mining applications. It is providing a maximum measurement range of 2,000m on natural...

Fugro (Netherlands) has acquired William Lettis & Associates, Inc. (WLA), a geological consultancy with headquarters in Walnut Creek, California. Founded in 1990, WLA operates globally from offices in California, Colorado,...

The Queensland Spatial Excellence Award for Land Development and Planning was awarded to AAMHatch on Friday, 18 July 2008. The project, "Hong Kong 3D City Models with LiDAR", was commissioned...

Leica Geosystems (Switzerland) has released version 4.0 of Leica GeoMoS, an open, scalable and customisable software suitable for a wide range of monitoring applications.     Leica GeoMoS v4.0 is...

Last month we reported back from the Intergeo trade show that it was all about three abbreviations: Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS), Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) and Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS)....

In soil and sediment studies, geophysical mapping is often used as a prerequisite to focus or guide traditional sampling and coring of the locations of interest. This way, synoptic and...

Intergeo, the world's largest congress and trade-fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management, will this year be held in Cologne, Germany, from 5th to 7th October. About 15,000 visitors are...

Spectrum's Egyptian joint venture, Spectrum-Geopex has completed the first phase of a significant computer systems upgrade at its seismic data processing centre in Nasr City, Cairo that will quadruple its...