MobiLaps LLC (MD, USA) has been awarded a sole source contract from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to meet critical technical and schedule requirements of the Geospatial Interoperability Office...

Over past decades, as GIS grew from infancy to relative adulthood in the rest of the world Africa remained a white spot on the GIS map. Considering the size of...

Standards are part of the life of every geomatics engineer and scientist. Standards make the pieces fit together for geospatial information, Web services, modelling languages, etc. Each student of geomatics...

On 26th November 2005, the back-up solar array drive on Landsat 5 began exhibiting unusual behaviour. The solar array drive maintains the proper pointing angle between the solar array and...

Since June 2004 ICA has been publishing a monthly one-page column in GIM International. Dr David Fairbairn is responsible for ensuring content for the ICA page and is himself a...

Since June 2004 ICA has been publishing a monthly one-page column in GIM International. Dr David Fairbairn is responsible for ensuring content for the ICA page and is himself a...

The 20th European Conference for ESRI Users took place from 26th to 28th October 2005 in the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland. A third ESRI European Education...

As society becomes more reliant on image-based information for the purposes of mobility many people are excluded precisely by the visual nature of these graphic representations. An important example is...

The subject of this Expert Group Meeting was the improvement of land tenure security through new legal frameworks and new and better tools. New land laws have recently come into...

FIG founding member Consiglio Nazionale Geometri (CNG) held its 43rd National Congress at the famous top hotel Villa Igiea in Palermo from 17th to 22nd October. FIG president Prof. Holger...