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...

Throughout history the physical and cultural environment has influenced location and distribution of settlements. One important question in archaeological research is what are the causal relationships between environmental factors on...

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...

Intermap Technologies Corp. (CO, USA) has announced that it has partnered with 3DVU Ltd, a three-dimensional visualisation technology developer. Under the terms of the agreement, Intermap and 3DVU will jointly...

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging (GA, USA) has announces three new product releases; ERDAS IMAGINE V9.0, LPS V9.0 and Leica Virtual Explorer. ERDAS IMAGINE V9.0 The latest version offers enhanced geospatial...

On the eve of 2006 Galileo finally became tangible reality. Launched from Balkonur, Kazakhstan, atop a Soyuz-Fregat vehicle, the first Galileo-In-Orbit Validation Element (Giove A) was rocketed beyond Earth’s atmosphere...

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...

It is likely to be 2012 before the Galileo system itself is fully operational on a stand-alone basis, says this month’s interviewee Owen Goodman, and Galileo will never be a...

The debate on Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) has reached a level of maturity that encourages reflection and facilitates evaluation of past experience. The author considers some emerging trends in the...

It is likely to be 2012 before the Galileo system itself is fully operational on a stand-alone basis, says this month’s interviewee Owen Goodman, and Galileo will never be a...