Developing countries still have a need for mapping systems that are low-cost, simple to operate by local operators, fast in production and yet meet the needs of the application. A...

Traditional methods of information management are hard to use in the planning process of problematic urban areas such as squatter settlements. GIS provides the capability for dynamic query and analysis,...

Increasingly frequent disasters with attendant damage have heightened climate change related environmental and social vulnerability, emphasising the need for tools to support disaster management. In South Africa a National Disaster...

Optech Incorporated focuses on the development, manufacture and support of advanced, lidar-based survey solutions. Established in 1974 as a privately held, Canadian-owned research and development firm, Optech was originally an...

For the past ten years, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee 211, Geographic information/Geomatics has been working on standards development. It is now completing an initial set of...

Disasters are of all ages. When they strike, more often than not they strike suddenly and ruthlessly. The damage disasters cause fills us with deep awe for the unimaginable forces...

The internationally supported African initiative Africa Reference Framework project (AFREF) aims at using GNSS to unify the coordinate reference systems within Africa to produce a uniform and consistent coordinate system...

The first International Symposium on Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM) was held at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands from 21st to 23rd March 2005. More than three hundred participants...

Writing the second edition of our GIS and Science textbook with three colleagues made me acutely aware of two very different approaches to exploiting GIS when we suffer major disasters:...

Writing the second edition of our GIS and Science textbook with three colleagues made me acutely aware of two very different approaches to exploiting GIS when we suffer major disasters:...