This year’s Intergeo, to be held at the Exhibition Centre in Düsseldorf, Germany from 4th to 6th October, is expected to exceed all limits. With opening extended to three whole...

Modelling is a well-proven and widely accepted engineering technique for controlling complex reality. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose aid for graphical modelling. The author presents a use case...

The Real World is the title of an MTV show in which a few young people are followed every day with a camera to register their daily life. Or at...

Engineering is all about developing solutions by reducing complex reality to tractable bits and pieces. At the heart of problem solving lies modelling, that is, isolating the essential aspects of...

3D city models, as we know them today, originate from traditional city maps. The reconstruction of historical architecture using computer models not only relies on the traditional model maker’s art...

Sensor Systems (VA, USA), the developer of RemoteView geospatial processing software, has joined the Overwatch Systems (NJ, USA) group of companies. Effective 1st October Sensor Systems changed its name to...

Trimble (CA, USA) has announced it has supplied GPS reference stations and Trimble VRS (Virtual Reference Station) software to establish five new infrastructure networks throughout China. Located in Shanghai, Wuhan,...

LizardTech delivers wavelet-based imaging software for managing and distributing massive high-resolution digital content such as aerial photography and satellite imagery and scanned colour documents. Main products include GeoExpress with MrSID...

The 11th annual Intergeo conference and trade fair was held at the Messe Düsseldorf, the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany from Tuesday 4 October to Thursday 6 October. Under...

"Welcome to the future!" This was how Topcon greeted Intergeo visitors to their stand. It was impossible to overlook. So what is so special about that future? And how is...