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...

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...

On the eve of 2006 Galileo finally became tangible reality. Launched from Balkonur, Kazakhstan, atop a Soyuz-Fregat vehicle, the first Galileo-In-Orbit Validation Element (Giove A) was rocketed beyond Earth’s atmosphere...

The European Commission has received the go-ahead to open negotiations with Ukraine on a 'co-operation agreement' relating to the development of Galileo, Europe's satellite navigation system. The agreement would comprise...

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...

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...

Topcon (CA, USA) has recently won a bid to supply UNAVCO, Inc. with 100 GB-1000 GPS+ receivers. Under a five-year contract, Topcon will also make GB-1000 receivers available to educational...

Around six hundred participants attended the fifth conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) held in Nairobi, Kenya from 17th to 22nd October 2004. The...

Geodata Systems Technologies, Inc. (GSTI), ESRI’s distributor in the Republic of the Philippines, has won a contract worth more than US$ 600,000 to implement a GIS-based assets management system for...

The third meeting of the Space Council – a joint and concomitant meeting of the ESA Council at ministerial level and of the European Union Competitiveness Council (Internal Market/ Industry/...