The pan-European research platform EuroSDR (European Spatial Data Research) will host a forthcoming international conference on merging map data from different sources, especially the satellite-based GPS. The conference, “Achieving geometric...

Global Marketing Insights (OH, USA) has launched a comprehensive research study of international remote sensing markets for aerial and satellite data. The study follows a contract with the US National...

Infoterra GmbH (Germany) has announced that PASCO Corporation (Japan) is the first distribution partner for data products of the German TerraSAR-X radar satellite. After a first agreement had already been...

ImageCat (CA, USA) is using QuickBird satellite imagery to assess damage resulting from the massive Indian Ocean tsunami. In January, ImageCat and the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER)...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a contract for the next phase of the development of the Galileo Test User Receivers to a consortium led by Septentrio (Belgium), a...

The tsunami in Asia has once again demonstrated that human beings are at risk at any time, anywhere. Disasters in highly populated environments are difficult to manage using only small-scale...

China Galileo Industries Ltd. has been officially appointed to handle China's participation in the European-based Galileo Project, according to an agreement signed 9 March in Beijing by China Galileo and...

The majority of the world’s population will soon live in urban rather than rural areas. Adding a spatial dimension to population estimates, a new study finds that as much as...

The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) (MA,. USA) has begun a 'GML in JPEG' Interoperability Experiment to test and refine a draft implementation specification that defines how Geography Markup Language...

This year’s annual conference of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) took place from 7th to 11th March, with the theme ‘Geospatial Goes Global: From Your Neighbourhood...