Almost a year ago (June 2005), Google Earth was launched and drew a lot of attention (‘fantastic’, ‘exciting’) both from the GI-specialists as from the general public. Google Earth was...

News HBS Workshop and Annual General Meeting The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Hydrographic Society of the Benelux was held on 7th February 2003 at the Delft University of...

Washington, DC, USA, hosted the XXII FIG (International Federation of Surveyors) Congress during the week of 21 Ð 26 April 2002 as well as meetings of the American Congress on...

T-Kartor was founded in 1985 in the southern Swedish town of Kristianstad. The company was started by a group of highly qualified people with wide experience and engagement in geography...

Haestad Methods, Inc. (CT, USA) is internationally recognised as a water resources software company by water and wastewater utilities, government agencies, engineering consulting firms and universities. Founded in 1979 by...

Fugro Survey Limited undertake a wide variety of offshore pipeline/asset inspection surveys for energy companies throughout the world, using side-scan sonar and multi-beam echo sounder data to ascertain the condition...

Space-borne Earth Observation (EO) can offer a low-cost source of information in spatially extended areas of interest. A number of services have come online in recent years to facilitate access...

While the advantages of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for storing and displaying spatial data are widely recognised, the analytic capabilities are less well known outside the GIS community. Extensions to...

While Google Earth is the best known 3D web-mapping viewer currently in the public domain, there are alternative virtual globe viewers available. In particular, this article focuses on the NASA...

While Google Earth is the best known 3D web-mapping viewer currently in the public domain, there are alternative virtual globe viewers available. In particular, this article focuses on the NASA...