The UN estimates that more than 55% of the world’s population – that is, over 4.07 billion people – currently lives in urban areas…

‘Geospatial is like a general-purpose technology; it’s the oil for the next generation of the digital economy.’

Developments in the era of advanced science and technology nowadays is a challenge and an opportunity, especially in the field of geospatial information in Indonesia. As stipulated by the Act 1945 article 28 F that every person has the right…

Sweden has a long tradition in registration of land. We therefore have long experience in the field of real properties and how to handle the information. However, the fact that we have been doing this for so many years is not just an advantage…

Laser scanning is one of the latest techniques applied in 3D survey and mapping. Currently it is the leading survey technology providing spatial data information. Laser scanning is a process of recording precise 3D information of real world objects or environments…

Rural development is one of the priority programs in Indonesia today. Upto two billion Rupiah villages fund will be granted for each village. Rural development requires comprehensive planning. This requires a village map and village information system [1]…

Of late, efficient management of disasters is receiving utmost attention of the Governments. Flood is a major disaster in India and an average of 18.6 million hectares of land is affected annually in India, by floods…

In recent years, ‘Google Maps’ become the most widely used open source web based mapping application as it provides high resolution satellite imagery…

Mapping of fishponds are valuable to achieve proper monitoring and inventory of fish production. Due to yearly changes in the fishpond structures and operation, inventory of these aquacultures tend to become time consuming laborious…

Digital images collected form airborne or space-borne sensors often contain systematic and non-systematic geometric errors that arises from the earth curvature, platform motion, relief displacement, nonlinearities in scanning motion, the earth rotation, etc . [1]. The intent of geometric correction is to compensate for the distortions introduced by these factors so that the correct image will have the highest practical geometric integrity.