The Taiwan Aviation Safety Council (ASC) successfully deployed a cyberQuad UAV as part of its investigation into the crash of a TransAsia Airways ATR-72-500 aeroplane on the island of Hoko, west...

Today’s geodata acquisition technologies combine microprocessors, computer power, solid state drives, complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensors, miniaturisation and many more developments. But demand is just as important as supply, and demand is...

Swarms of UAVs flying in perfect formation could be one step closer thanks to a control algorithm being created at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The complexities involved in controlling teams of...

Late Tuesday morning on 7 July 2015, a U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet and a small single-engine Cessna 150 collided mid-air over South Carolina - forcing the jet pilot...

The Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment Melanie Schultz van Haegen, and alderman Boudewijn Revis of BSKB The Hague experimented in a real-life digital urban...

GEO Business 2015 reflected the wide variety of practice in geomatics. But we don’t attempt our hand at them all - unless perhaps the professional institutions want us to? London’s...

Skanska is pioneering the use of new software that automatically creates 3D computer models directly from laser scanners. The global project development and construction company has successfully trialled the Pointfuse...

Skanska, Sweden, is pioneering the use of new software that automatically creates 3D computer models directly from laser scanners. The company has successfully trialled the Pointfuse software that also offers...

Opening events, Pete Wilkinson, Esri’s head of customer success, urged us to use the downloadable event app. Alas, he later had to apologise for some of its shortcomings within the...

The January 2015 issue of GIM International included a feature on an ‘emerging new era in land administration’. The article charted the new way of thinking and uncovered why there...