The Middle East, and in particular the Gulf area, has been undergoing a spectacular metamorphosis over the past three decades. Radical change, and the huge construction and other developmental activities...

Standards are set within Europe as a result of voluntary agreements between the 28 member countries via the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). After a five-year period of dormancy, the...

Anomalies such as building-lean result from the processing of traditional orthorectified imagery and this limits its use in urban areas. However, the arrival of digital sensors has meant fully orthorectified...

In 1980 Professor Ackermann founded INPHO GmbH as a spin-off from his institute at Stuttgart University. A quarter of a century later, the company looks like staying independent for another...

In 1980 Professor Ackermann founded INPHO GmbH as a spin-off from his institute at Stuttgart University. A quarter of a century later, the company looks like staying independent for another...

Carmenta has been delivering mission-critical Geospatial Information Technology (GIT) and map-based operational systems for more than a decade. We have focused primarily on the aviation and defence markets, but are...

ESRI (CA, USA) has announced the availability of ArcGIS 9 Military Analyst. ArcGIS Military Analyst maximises the use of the standard suite of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) data products...

David Williams CEO and Jeremy Dunne CTO founded Laser Technology, Inc. (LTI) as a start-up company in 1985 in Littleton, Colorado, USA. It went public in 1993, then became a...

GIS Worlds: Creating Spatial Data Infrastructures, a new book from ESRI Press, provides an overview of the developments in Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) over the last 10 to 15 years....

The internet has created tremendous potential for the dissemination of geo-information for decision making. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an Open Source technology that can be efficiently used by the...