Based in Beijing, China, SinoMaps Press, the largest and oldest map publisher in the country, this year in December celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. The press produces 90% of China’s total...

Based in Beijing, China, SinoMaps Press, the largest and oldest map publisher in the country, this year in December celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. The press produces 90% of China’s total...

Podlasie Heritage Association (PHA) and ESRI Polska have initiated an educational project to introduce GIS technology to secondary school students in the Podlasie Province of Poland. According to ESRI (CA,...

Clark Labs (MA, USA) released of the 15th version of the IDRISI GIS and Image Processing system--The Andes Edition. An addition to IDRISI with this release is the Land Change...

Ecosystem Associates is a small consultancy located on the San Francisco Peninsula of California in the region known as ‘Silicon Valley’. As individuals with strong backgrounds and experience in ecology...

The ICA Spatial Data Standards Commission, active since 1991, is one of ICA’s most productive commissions. It has addressed a number of specific issues since its formation, including transfer formats,...

The geomatics profession is implicated in several ISO standards. The important ISO9001: 2000 prescribes regular instrument testing and calibration. To help meet required stringent alignment tolerances, a modern calibration bench...

The Coastal and Marine Resources Centre (CMRC) at University College Cork, Ireland, carries out multidisciplinary research primarily aimed at contributing to the scientific understanding of coastal and marine environments and...

The January 2008 of the Spatial Data Infrastructure — Africa (SDI-Africa), a free, electronic newsletter for people interested in GIS, remote sensing, and data management issues in Africa, has been...

The Chinese economy has made great progress over the past thirty years, especially in the domain of agriculture. Nevertheless, a variety of problems have still to be solved, including balancing...