Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Wu Xinxiong was appointed to be the president of the State Electricity Regulatory Commission, replacing Wang Xudong. Xu Deming was appointed as the director of the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation. Read More
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Railways are transforming around the globe with speeds increasing, performance improving and as the networks build integrated operations through the use of geomatics technologies. The International Union of Railways (UIC) represents hundreds of rail operators worldwide and...
Monday, June 13th, 2011
Survey and Mapping Office (SMO) of Lands Department has applied new technology to improve the quality of services in recent years. It makes use of the Global Positioning System, GPS technology of United States to develop a...
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Airborne Lidar Bathymetry specialists, Fugro LADS Corporation, based in Adelaide, Australia have successfully completed acceptance trials of their new Fugro LADS Mk 3 Airborne Lidar Bathymetry (ALB) system and has been awarded a project by the New...
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Large room? No square corners? Slanted walls? Lots of detail? Difficult to reach? No need to worry: the rugged Leica 3D Disto measures it all. A combination of distance and angle measurements determines the precise position of...
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Foreign companies are effectively banned from providing Internet mapping services in China, however joint ventures are exempted, according to a notice issued by the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping on Wednesday. The notice cited an amended regulation...
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Leica Geosystems has announced today at the Hexagon 2011 Conference the new Leica ScanStation C5 Laser Scanner for fast, complete as-built and engineering surveys. The compact, scalable Leica ScanStation C5 provides professionals with a combination of legendary...
Friday, June 3rd, 2011
Map Servers are providing useful geospatial geomatics data worldwide. These servers have several advantages due to the fact that they combine all kinds of spatial data - including surveying data. Today surveyors are using a wide range...
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
MicroSurvey embeddedCAD 2012 is now available! See the full press release here. Running on an Autodesk engine, MicroSurvey embeddedCAD 2012 is a complete survey drafting, COGO, DTM, traversing, volumes and contouring application. Enjoy all the tools you need in one...
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Fully 70% of the world is covered by water. It has been said that we know more about the moon, than we do about the oceans. Recently Hawkes Ocean Technologies won recognition from CAD software company Autodesk for...