Natural disaster can be defined as any occurrence causing decay of usability and productivity of land and structures built upon it, and injury or loss of human life. Disasters also...

The geomatics profession is implicated in several ISO standards. The important ISO9001: 2000 prescribes regular instrument testing and calibration. To help meet required stringent alignment tolerances, a modern calibration bench...

ESRI Virtual Campus and Trimble (both CA, USA) will present a free live training seminar 23 June 2005, at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m., Pacific time. The seminar...

On 19th May 2005 the Union Cabinet of India approved within the framework of establishing a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) a New National Map Policy. This involves production and...

One of the main topics discussed at the Survey and GIS Summit preceding the ESRI User Conference 2006 (see my report in the October issue) was the reluctance of youngsters...

Editing in ArcGIS 9: Tips and Tricks II, a new live training seminar from ESRI Virtual Campus, explores the newest tips and tricks in ArcGIS Desktop. The seminar is ideal...

Trimble (CA, USA) has supplied Global Navigation Satellite System reference stations and Virtual Reference Station software to establish a GNSS infrastructure network in Western Australia. Located in Perth, the network...

RDC ScanEx (Russia) has released new software product; ScanEx SPOT Processor. This software is designed to process the data, acquired from the French SPOT 2/4 satellites and to create standard...

LandNet Corp. (CO, USA) has been issued a patent from the U.S. Patent Office for a suite of highly differentiated online mapping functions. The patent titled 'Land Software Tool' includes...

Architectural heritage is threatened by many manmade and natural influences, including war, population pressure, poorly managed tourism, neglect or inappropriate use of sites, air pollution and climate change. While the...