Prof. Dr John van Genderen, himself a leading western expert on geospatial developments in China, interviews Professor Dr ZHANG Jixian, acting president of the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping...

Prof. Dr John van Genderen, himself a leading western expert on geospatial developments in China, interviews Professor Dr ZHANG Jixian, acting president of the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping...

The President of the USA has proposed a budget of USD968.5 million for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in fiscal year 2009, a decrease of USD38.0 million from the 2008...

Owned and operated in the United Arab Emirates, Vision, which was launched at Map Middle East in May 2009, has invested significant resources in expanding its regional aerial-survey and digital-mapping...

Dimensions 2009, the fifth in this conference series, took place from 23rd to 25th February at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas. Attendees had the opportunity to network with industry...

The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig was built in 2001 as a semi-submersible platform specially designed for operations in ultra-deep water. The rig employs a dynamic positioning system to maintain a...

The ICA page in this magazine twelve months ago described the significant number of cartographic events and developments taking place in Eastern Europe. Under the spotlight here is one output,...

Thanks to a recent initiative of the ASPRS Lidar Division, different segments of the Lidar mapping community now have the ability to customise the LAS file format to meet their...

Collecting and processing point clouds has been trending topic in the geospatial sector over the past few years. This article focuses on point cloud processing software aimed at creating DEMs...

Optech, Canada, is attending the International LiDAR Mapping Forum 2014 as both a presenter and on the trade showfloor. Held from 17 to 19 February 2014 in Denver, CO, the...