Decision makers from the public and private sectors will gather at the ESRI Homeland Security GIS Summit to exchange practical solutions for homeland security, crisis management and business continuity. The...

The third meeting of the Space Council – a joint and concomitant meeting of the ESA Council at ministerial level and of the European Union Competitiveness Council (Internal Market/ Industry/...

Land surveyors are experts in designing, building and managing the spatial component of land administration systems. In these times of fast changing and complex commodities markets, economic growth is driven...

Two months before his term of office ends in December, FIG president Holger Magel will arrive at its highlight: FIG XXIII Congress, 'Shaping the Change', to be held in his...

Two months before his term of office ends in December, FIG president Holger Magel will arrive at its highlight: FIG XXIII Congress, 'Shaping the Change', to be held in his...

15th July, Durban, South Africa The World Heritage Committee chaired by Themba Wakashe, South Africa’s deputy director-general for Heritage and National Archives has inscribed seventeen cultural sites on the UNESCO...

The 5th FIG Regional Conference was held in Accra, Ghana from 8th to 11th March 2006, together with the 37th Ghana Institution of Surveyors Conference. This was the first time...

Around two hundred participants from government organisations, the private sector, international organisations and academia attended a one-day seminar in Kathmandu, Nepal on space-technology applications and recent developments in geo-spatial products....

The IDB, the Inter-American Development Bank (DC, USA) has announced the approval of a US$ 3.5 million loan to the Bahamas. The project aims at strengthening the technical capacity of...

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...