Feature Articles
Empowering communities through youth-led mapping with Maria Timbawala
In this episode of Mapping the Conversations, host Valrie Grant speaks with Maria Timbawala, President of the Jamaica YouthMappers Chapter and a 2024 YouthMappers Leadership Fellow. Maria shares her j...
Bridging skies and strategies in Athens
How does an industry transform itself in real time? How can companies advance their collective potential? The European Association of Aerial Surveying Industries (EAASI) answered these and other quest...
Talent dynamics in the geospatial industry with Amanda Iglesias
In this episode of Mapping the Conversations, host Valrie Grant welcomes Amanda Iglesias, Software Product Manager for Mobile Mapping Systems at Leica Geosystems. With nearly a decade of experience, A...
Rolling the innovation dice
This year’s vibrant Trimble Dimensions event took place in Las Vegas from 11-13 November. As one of Trimble’s long-standing media partners, GIM International was once again on the scene for an ext...
Enhancing building extraction with Lidar and aerial image data
With the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) applications, automating building extraction from remote sensing data has gained significant traction. By leveraging Lidar and aerial-image digital s...
Special GIS Day episode: GIS in eveyday life with Valrie Grant
In celebration of GIS Day, this episode of Mapping the Conversations takes a deep dive into the everyday uses of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Our Host Valrie Grant introduces the episode wher...
Innovation and geospatial leadership with Boris Skopljak
In this insightful episode of Mapping the Conversations, host Valrie Grant sits down with Boris Skopljak, Vice President of the Geospatial Sector at Trimble, to explore the rapidly evolving world of g...
The path to accurate 3D data with handheld scanning solutions
Today’s mobile or ‘kinematic’ scanners are well-developed, reliable tools that consistently deliver accurate results across multiple applications. Despite this progress, some industries remain c...
Mapping Chicago’s beach and nearshore sand distributions for effective management
Lake Michigan water levels fluctuate by as much as two metres over decadal time spans, altering how waves and currents interact with coastal sediments and lakefront infrastructure in ways not yet full...
Crewed aerial surveying: a key tool in modern forest monitoring
This article presents five real-world cases illustrating how crewed aerial platforms are helping to preserve vital ecosystems: forests. With the planet’s forests facing numerous threats, advanced mo...
Milan’s digital twin project
The Italian city of Milan is pioneering a new era of urban management with its comprehensive digital twin of the metropolitan area. It was developed in a municipal project involving four leading geoi...
3DBAG: automatically generated 3D models of 10 million buildings
For a long time, it had been an outstanding research problem, but 3DBAG has turned the large-scale automatic reconstruction of detailed 3D building models into reality. Developed within the 3D Geoinfo...
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5 questions to… Alex Baikovitz, Mach9
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...
The EvoLogics Sonobot 5: new capabilities
EvoLogics is an innovative subsea technology company established in 2000, with headquarters in Berlin, Germany, and a US sales office in Yorktown, Virginia. Combining state-of-the-art engineering with...
High-quality Lidar data processing services vs automatic processing with AI
The increasing affordability of high-performance Lidar technology is driving the emergence of numerous new market players. Meanwhile, the use of AI models is facilitating the automation of various tas...
5 questions to Srdjan Sobol, Trimble Applanix
We asked Srdjan Sobol, airborne product manager at Trimble Applanix, to tell us more about how GNSS+INS OEM solutions are leading the latest revolution in mapping and surveying. Here, he explains how ...
Smart Angat: a pioneering GIS solution by RASA and SuperMap
The town of Angat in the Philippines faces a number of urban management challenges. Thanks to the ‘Smart Angat’ solution developed by RASA Surveying and SuperMap, the Angat municipal government of...
Latest news in surveying and mapping
Cyclomedia presents new pavement and assets data collection solution
Cyclomedia recently showcased its innovative integrated platform for pavement and asset data collection at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting in Washington DC, USA. This all-in-one...
Terria scales up with global ambitions in geospatial tech
Terria, a geospatial technology startup specialized in organizing and visualizing complex spatial data, has officially spun out of Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO. Terria is now poised to...
CHCNAV debuts rotor UAV for precise aerial applications
CHC Navigation has introduced the X500 rotor UAV, designed to meet the demands of precision aerial operations. Its capabilities make it a valuable tool for tasks such as surveying, urban monitoring an...
TomTom and Esri join forces for advanced location analytics
TomTom has partnered with Esri to bring its extensive map and traffic data to ArcGIS, Esri’s powerful geospatial platform. This collaboration between one of the leaders in location technology and th...