In the early days of surveying, surveyors were pioneers in charting the unknown. Today, with the Earth having been completely mapped to some degree, surveying has become a much more specialized field ...

From drones and satellites to airborne-based sensors and Lidar, advances in remote sensing and geospatial information science are driving the development of innovative methods for data acquisition, pr...

The city of Zagreb has been developing a semantic 3D city model since 2008. The city spatial planning sector was recognized as the main project user and developer, while more users were detected in th...

There is a critical need for rapid, rigorous, reproducible and scalable forest inventory tools to support data-driven policies and management practices in response to challenges including deforestatio...

As part of a Catalan government project to improve the management of its marine environment, ICGC cooperated with Field to use airborne Lidar bathymetry (ALB) to survey the Catalan coastal zone. The r...

Population growth, urbanization and rapid digitalization all represent global challenges, but they also offer opportunities for the geospatial industry, because reality capture technology is an essent...

Thanks to rapid improvements in aerial laser scanning systems, they offer great potential in road surveying compared with traditional photogrammetry-based methods. Using the high-density 3D point clou...

To find out more about the geomatics education situation across the globe, 'GIM International' spoke to several industry experts from academia around the world. Are the numbers of students in geomatic...

What are the primary technical differences between crewed and uncrewed aerial vehicles and satellites when it comes to capturing images of Earth? Where do they overlap, and where do they diverge? By c...

We asked James Kavanagh, head of land & resources with The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), about the challenges facing the geospatial industry, the technological developments that wil...

There is probably no one involved in surveying and geospatial modelling who believes that they could achieve accurate and reliable results without trigonometry and space-correlated time. But how many ...

Offering laser scanning services is rarely as glamorous as corporate brochures imply. It can be tricky to fund equipment costs, manage client demands and develop a successful pricing policy. To stand ...

To explore the contribution of UAVs to the spatial mapping process in urban environments, a team from Greece studied the use of aerial imagery to achieve wide coverage of a predefined geometrical area...

As AI increasingly becomes a vital element in today's mapping solutions, Wim van Wegen ponders its transformative power for our industry, and the prospect of it evolving into artificial consciousness ...

Over the centuries, all four industrial revolutions have influenced surveying instruments and the profession as a whole. This article explores which different skills and capabilities surveyors are req...