The tsunami in Asia has once again demonstrated that human beings are at risk at any time, anywhere. Disasters in highly populated environments are difficult to manage using only small-scale...

The latest release of the ER Mapper product, version 7.0, adds support for ISO standard JPEG 2000 image files. ER Mapper 7.0 also adds new batch, colour enhancement and image...

For some time now I have been involved as an advisor on GIS and Mapping in preparation of the Population and Housing Census of one of the biggest, in terms...

Google Earth has been mentioned at least once at every meeting or conference of GIS-related professionals I’ve attended over the past year. It was even briefly referred to during defence...

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...

The last quarter century has seen a stupendous development in the field of global positioning technology and today it is almost a taken for granted service by a global positional...

G-Source Industrial Corp. (Taiwan) introduced BG-521B, a Bluetooth GPS receiver, which integrates the Xtrac software and a Flash-based program memory. The BG-521B has 12 parallel satellite-tracking channels and a built-in...

ESRI (CA, USA) and its international distributors are supporting response to the recent Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami disaster by working with government agencies and disaster relief organisations to provide...

In co-production, GAF AG and its subsidiary, Euromap GmbH, both from Germany, have extended the availability of IRS orthophoto mosaic 'Euro-Maps' from Germany to Austria and Switzerland. Coverage of the...

The USA and the Russian Federation intend to begin preliminary discussions on an agreement for co-operation between the GPS and Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS). Both countries intend to work...