With the start of September, the summer holidays are behind us and we gradually readjust ourselves, hopefully restored, to our professional activities: back to normal. Many of us will have...

Modelling is a well-proven and widely accepted engineering technique for controlling complex reality. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose aid for graphical modelling. The author presents a use case...

The Real World is the title of an MTV show in which a few young people are followed every day with a camera to register their daily life. Or at...

Engineering is all about developing solutions by reducing complex reality to tractable bits and pieces. At the heart of problem solving lies modelling, that is, isolating the essential aspects of...

3D city models, as we know them today, originate from traditional city maps. The reconstruction of historical architecture using computer models not only relies on the traditional model maker’s art...

"Welcome to the future!" This was how Topcon greeted Intergeo visitors to their stand. It was impossible to overlook. So what is so special about that future? And how is...

"Welcome to the future!" This was how Topcon greeted Intergeo visitors to their stand. It was impossible to overlook. So what is so special about that future? And how is...

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 Schools of Topography, Geodesy and Cartography (both civil and military) in Spain, Portugal and Ibero-America have traditionally been in charge of the training of specialists in capturing and visualising...

It is likely to be 2012 before the Galileo system itself is fully operational on a stand-alone basis, says this month’s interviewee Owen Goodman, and Galileo will never be a...