Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) have installed eight additional Thales Micro-Z Continuous Geodetic Reference Stations (CGRS) on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, bringing the array on the...

The State of Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is using DigitalGlobe (CO, USA) QuickBird satellite imagery for forest inventory management, practice assessments and health and disease assessments. The DNR...

The European Environment Agency (EEA), assisted by the European Space Agency Earth Observation Directorate, has published the Image2000 survey, a new virtual atlas that shows trends in the way Europeans...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Petrobras, a Brazilian oil company, has extended its contract with RADARSAT International for the use of RADARSAT-1 data and services in support of its environmental program. The one-year extension is...