To monitor the environmental changes and find solutions in the vulnerable Sahel region, the AGRHYMET institute (AGRiculture, HYdrology and METorology) was established thirty years ago. AGRHYMET aims at collecting, processing...

NASA scientists have developed a regional visualisation and monitoring system for Central America and the southern Mexican states designed to make NASA Earth observations and predictions freely and readily accessible...

In the city of Manica, a planning exercise based on the principles of participatory community planning is currently taking place in the Josina Machel neighbourhood. The city is one of...

The US Air Force has awarded Boeing (MO, USA) two GPS IIF contract options valued at US$ 172.3 million. The first award is a US$ 143.9 million modification to the...

Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (MO, USA) has awarded a study contract to Alcatel (France) within the framework of the US Air Force's GPS III System Preliminary Definition phase. This contract...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (MA, USA), jointly with the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) and the North American Chapter of the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI-NA), has announced a...

GeoTango International (Canada) introduced SAME (See Anywhere Map Everywhere), a network-centric system that allows performing 3D visualisation and interactive exploration of multiple data sources over a distributed network. The product...

Volunteers from ESRI-Thailand have been to Takua Pa district, the most damaged area in the country, to assist search teams and to analyse tsunami damage using geo-information technology. The most...

One of the main recommendations put forward at the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space – UNISPACE III – was the need to...

Traditional methods of information management are hard to use in the planning process of problematic urban areas such as squatter settlements. GIS provides the capability for dynamic query and analysis,...