Last year’s success combined with the growth of geotechnology market, make promoter and organiser company Alcantara Machado believe in a big increase on the number of exhibitors for 2006 edition.

 Says director Jose Danghesi: "The amount of participants that have guaranteed their place in advance is a record so far. Besides traditional companies, many new companies from Brazil and abroad are interested in taking part of GEOBrasil this year".

 According to GEOBrasil’s website, the following companies have already confirmed participation : Autodesk, CTGEO, Geoambiente, Petrobras, Santiago & Cintra, Threetek, INPE, EVN, Intersat, Imagem and Gisplan.

 The congress programme will be available on the internet soon. There will be more than 80 lectures about: oil and gas, survey, GNSS, navigation (Galileo x GPS), cartography, satellite imagery (Google Earth) and much more.

GEOBrasil Summit 2006 will be held in São Paulo from 18 to 20 July.

 Please, check www.geobr.com.br for further information.