Trimble (CA, USA) has introduced five surveying products as part of its new Connected Survey Site model—the Trimble GX 3D Laser Scanner; the Trimble R8 system with Global Navigation Satellite...

The European Environment Agency (EEA), assisted by the European Space Agency Earth Observation Directorate, has published the Image2000 survey, a new virtual atlas that shows trends in the way Europeans...

Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) have installed eight additional Thales Micro-Z Continuous Geodetic Reference Stations (CGRS) on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, bringing the array on the...

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard founded HP (Hewlett Packard) in 1939. Today the company offers IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services, and imaging and printing for consumers,...

You are, as a geomatics professional, working in one of the most rapidly growing areas of the world economy. Geomatics is all around us and there is loads of work...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (MA, USA), jointly with the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) and the North American Chapter of the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI-NA), has announced a...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a contract for the next phase of the development of the Galileo Test User Receivers to a consortium led by Septentrio (Belgium), a...

Petrobras, a Brazilian oil company, has extended its contract with RADARSAT International for the use of RADARSAT-1 data and services in support of its environmental program. The one-year extension is...

David Williams CEO and Jeremy Dunne CTO founded Laser Technology, Inc. (LTI) as a start-up company in 1985 in Littleton, Colorado, USA. It went public in 1993, then became a...

Visual Learning Systems, Inc. (VLS) (MT, USA) has announced the official release of LIDAR Analyst, a solution for automating the collection of 3D features from LIDAR data. Early studies show...