One of the most important global developments since the early 1990s is the emergence of new, strong Asian economies. In the wake of the economic success of Japan, Taiwan and...

On January 12th 2006 came the announcement that Orbimage had acquired Space Imaging. The newly formed company, GeoEye, flies the high-resolution Ikonos, Orbview-3 satellites and Orbview-2. In 2007 it will...

On January 12th 2006 came the announcement that Orbimage had acquired Space Imaging. The newly formed company, GeoEye, flies the high-resolution Ikonos, Orbview-3 satellites and Orbview-2. In 2007 it will...

Data on ocean species has been being sampled along US coastlines for some sixty years. To enable scientists requiring such data for a variety of investigations to retrieve it and...

Thales (CA, USA) has announced the appointment of Francois Erceau to the post of vice president and general manager of its survey and GIS business unit. Erceau previously served as...

Océ (The Netherlands) has optimised support for printing from Autodesk products including AutoCAD 2006 software and Autodesk DWF Viewer and DWF Composer with the new Océ Windows Printer Driver 1.9....

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...

Sokkia (Japan) has extended its construction laser range with the introduction of the LP310 Leveling Laser. The LP310 is a self-levelling construction laser designed for long-range tasks, up to 600m...

Stora Enso (Finland) has released version 5.1 of its EnsoMOSAIC software for small- and medium-format aerial image ortho-rectification. The software also automatically ties image sets together that can contain thousands...

Google Earth has been mentioned at least once at every meeting or conference of GIS-related professionals I’ve attended over the past year. It was even briefly referred to during defence...