In September 2005 Blom Group consolidated its already firm position on the Geographical Information (GI) market within Europe by entering into an exclusive licencing agreement with US-based Pictometry for 23...

Obstacle Clearance Limits (OCLs) are defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization to warrant safety around airports. However, as operational areas are not marked in reality but have complicated 3D...

Small satellites for earth observation are an important ongoing development in space research. How can mapping and disaster management benefit from small-satellite systems? What is the potential and what the...

NovAtel Inc. (Canada) has launched its new OEMV-1G and FlexPak-V1G products with GPS+Glonass positioning solutions. Also, full GPS+Glonass AdVance RTK (Real Time Kinematic) positioning capabilities are available on all existing...

Topcon Europe Positioning (The Netherlands) has released their newest addition to Topcon’s robotic total station series – the GPT-9000Ai – which now offers the added productivity and versatility of integrated...

Collecting, processing, managing and distributing information and transforming it into relevant support for decision making constitutes the nerve system of society at local, regional, national and global scale. Of increasing...

CyberCity is an international 3D-geo-information company specialised in generation, distribution, analysis and visualisation of 3D-city and facility models and photo-realistic 3D-landmarks. The Swiss-based company with headquarters in Urdorf (Zurich) works...

Imaging Earth from space has become normal business and the acquired data a commodity like any other. Earth-observation satellites are constructed and launched at conveyor-belt speed. On 27th October 2005...

On a map showing the countries of the world according to the size of their carbon footprint, the Northern Hemisphere is roughly twice as big as it is in reality...

Last month’s ICA page introduced the Commission on Education and Training. The chair of the commission this month describes one specific project, the ICA-sponsored Internet Cartography Teaching Programme. The idea...