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 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...

In September 2001, the University of Southern Mississippi, in conjunction with the US Navy, established an Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) Laboratory to conduct Research, Development, Test and...

The importance of data availability is increasingly being recognised, not just as an important topic for an exclusive section of the geospatial community but all over the geospatial spectrum, including...

International Communications and Navigation Ltd (ICAN) is a product development and systems integration company incorporated in 1996. The company has its headquarters in St John’s, Canada with offices in Quebec...

In July 2004 HSA Systems Ltd (HSA) commenced an 18-month project for Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) to assess and assign Zones of Confidence (ZOCs) to all hydrographic surveys incorporated...

SpatialDirect delivers spatial data over the web in many of the over 160 formats supported by the underlying Feature Manipulation Engine (FME) servers. SpatialDirect 2006 GB adds numerous important enhancements...

The availability of various sensors and sophisticated technology providing digital data means that today’s hydrographers must attune to the idea that the final products should be available in a hydrographic...

Concepts concerning WECDIS and AML (Additional Military Layers) to support warfare at sea have been developed for quite a few years - now they are being realised. It was more...

In its current state of development, ECDIS is not only a commercial failure but it is also a clear demonstration of the fact that a number of Hydrographic Offices and...