To gain insight into how the crewed aerial surveying sector is navigating the transforming geospatial landscape, the European Association of Aerial Surveying Industries (EAASI) recently conducted its ...

By transforming remote sensing data into actionable insights for sustainable development, geospatial AI (GeoAI) is rapidly emerging as a vital tool to address the mounting challenges and urgent needs ...

Providing that drones, data and AI are used both sustainably and responsibly, they can hold the key to solving many global challenges. This is the firm belief at WeRobotics, the steward of an internat...

From demographic changes and skills shortages to climate-driven land pressures, AI ethics and hydrography, the surveying profession is undergoing rapid transformation. GIM International spoke with Nic...

In 1969, Jack and Laura Dangermond launched Esri with a bold idea: geographic tools could help people understand – and actively shape – a better world. Such tools now underpin billions of maps cre...

Trimble Dimensions 2025 provided a glimpse of not only how artificial intelligence and AI assistants will impact future geospatial workflows, but more importantly how these new tools and software solu...

Several years ago, Trimble put collaboration and data integration at the heart of its innovation strategy, with a focus on bringing together information from different hardware and software solutions ...

The Santiago Urban Dataset (SUD) is a new, composite dataset merging handheld mobile laser scanning (HMLS) and mobile laser scanning (MLS) point clouds. With eight distinct classes, it has been develo...

How can the conceptual Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) be applied to different scenarios? The FIG book titled LADM in the Classroom provides examples, as well as guidance for using the book an...

The huge volume of geospatial data generated by mining surveyors typically remains underutilized. For today’s mines, flexibility, connectivity and data accessibility hold the key to the future. As t...

Using drone platforms and RGB images acquired with passive optical cameras, image-based UAV bathymetry is a cost-effective and accessible method of inspecting and surveying the seabed in shallow coast...

Few people have pushed the boundaries of spatial data, reality capture and 3D storytelling quite like Pete Kelsey. Throughout his career, he has helped archaeologists, engineers, documentary makers an...

Hudhud deployed CHCNAV’s AU20 mobile mapping system (MMS) to survey tens of thousands of kilometres of road in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as part of building a high‑resolution digital basemap of the ci...

For more than a hundred years, surveyors have been at the core of Hexagon Geosystems’ innovation. With a deep understanding of the challenges they face and the environments they operate in, we con...

Geoinformation underpins decision-making in urban planning, traffic and energy infrastructure, disaster prevention and environmental protection. Global challenges such as climate change, resource secu...

In today’s dynamic digital landscape, mapping has evolved far beyond traditional cartography. Accurate, up-to-date geospatial data is now, more than ever, crucial for creating reliable maps, support...

Mach9 is on a mission to redefine how unstructured 3D data is transformed into maps automatically, enabling faster and more accurate solutions for infrastructure design and asset management. At Trimbl...

Busan, South Korea's second-largest city, is doubling down on digital innovation for urban management. The city has agreed to extend its partnership with Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corporati...

An immersive programme of knowledge exchange, peer networking and forward-looking debate on the trends shaping the future of UAV and mobile Lidar mapping – that's what industry professionals can exp...

Europe's satellite navigation ambitions reached a new milestone on 28 March, as the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the first two satellites of its Celeste in-orbit demonstration mission from New...

The Sanborn Map Company has expanded the deployment of its advanced airborne Time Domain Electromagnetic (TDEM) survey systems through its Sanborn Geophysics Group. Increased investment in airborne ge...