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Photogrammetry out of the Dark Room

DVP-GS is a small Canada-based business founded in 1988 to market software products resulting from research into digital photogrammetry at Laval University. This month’s interviewee, Remi Jean, president DVP-GS, is...

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Building Information System

In Lombardy (Italy) one has started a project on risk-assessment of buildings of historical-architectural importance. For this purpose a Building Information System (BIS) has been created, based on archived and...

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Spatial Technologies for Non-experts

eSpatial Solutions Ltd focuses on geospatial technology based on industry-standard IT infrastructure. Established in April 1997, the company is a subsidiary of one of Ireland’s leading investment houses, International Investment...

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3D Dynamic Emergency Routing

Mega-cities suffer increasingly from manmade and natural disasters such as fire, collapse, poison-gas leak, bombing, and tsunami, leading to huge loss of life and assets on, above and below ground....

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Restructuring Old Degrees

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...

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Laser Scanning Technology Challenged

In this month’s Insider’s View Prof. Heinz Rüther puts some critical points on the shortcomings of laser-scanning technology in the spatial documentation of heritage sites. We invited manufacturers of laser-scanning...

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Building the Capacity

During its 2006 Congress in Munich FIG General Assembly elected Prof. Stig Enemark as president for the term 2007 to 2010. Mr Enemark has longstanding international experience both as a...

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Real World

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...

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Intergeo Trade Fair and FIG Congress

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...

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