Vexcel Corporation (CO, USA) has announced that Dr William B. Gail, formerly director at Ball Aerospace, has joined Vexcel as vice-president of Mapping and Photogrammetric Solutions. He will lead the...

The Government of India and Microsoft Research India have signed a memorandum of understanding for research collaboration under which the first project will concern a geographic information system to put...

The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association (www.gsdi.org) is an inclusive organisation of organisations, agencies and individuals from around the world. The GSDI Association promotes international co-operation and collaboration in...

ESRI (CA, USA) and two of its partners, Digital Quest, Inc. (DQI) (MS, USA) and Berkeley Geo-Research Group (CA, USA) will combine efforts to expand the educational programs for the...

The Rwanda Development Gateway Group, in partnership with the Research and Training Centre in Geographic Information systems & Remote Sensing of the National University of Rwanda, recently graduated its first...

Kingswood MapMechanics (UK) has extended its range of digital road and street map data sets. Many of its data sets cover remote parts of the world. Afghanistan and Iraq are...

Euromap, a wholly owned subsidiary of GAF AG and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), have started receiving data from the IRS-P6 Resourcesat-1, the new Indian Remote Sensing Satellite. Indian satellite...

The 2nd International Industrial Forum GeoForm+ - 2005 will take place at the Sokolniki Culture & Exhibition Centre in Moscow (Russia) from 14th to 17th March 2005. GeoForm+ subjects include...

In November last year China successfully put into orbit the third of its ZY-2 second transmitting-type remote sensing satellites. China launched the first and second ZY-2 satellites in September 2000...

Around six hundred participants attended the fifth conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) held in Nairobi, Kenya from 17th to 22nd October 2004. The...