GAF AG started out in October 1985 as privately owned company that offered services in satellite remote sensing and image processing. Over time, this core competence has developed and expanded...

The XIth biannual Latin American Remote Sensing Symposium (SELPER) was held at the Diego Portales Convention Center, Santiago, Chile, 22–26 November 2004. About 150 professionals from nearly all continents attended...

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...

softelec’s (Germany) new Version 2 of their VPmap Series software products has become available with a number of considerable enhancements. Both products, VPmap and VPmap pro, provide a unique set...

The Belize Biodiversity Mapping Service (BBMS) is a prototype on-line GIS to discover biodiversity-related data using a visual (spatial) interface. The BBMS evolved out of a simple demonstration of internet...

Avenza Systems Inc. (Canada) has announced that the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., has chosen MAPublisher software for use in their remote...

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...

University scientists using Global Positioning System software, developed by NASA, have shown GPS can determine, within minutes, whether an earthquake is big enough to generate an ocean-wide tsunami. This NASA-funded...

Lidar and other 3D-terrain data are increasingly available and trusted but still generate unwieldy volumes of data. Established in 2004, Applied Imagery provides powerful and simple software tools for visualising,...

Excessive groundwater extraction in the Bandung Basin has led to rapid sinking of the water table and is hypothesised as the main cause of land subsidence. Periodical GPS surveys were...