CHC Navigation
CHC Navigation is expanding its reach throughout Europe and the world, with more dealers and customer support and advanced training and service points. The Shanghai-based company has been a player in...
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Case Studies
GIM International's "Case Studies" section delivers comprehensive examinations of actual geospatial projects. These studies shed light on the hands-on use of technologies and methodologies in the geospatial realm, empowering professionals to address obstacles efficiently and catalyze innovation. (Image courtesy: Christoph Holst/Technical University of Munich)
The Power of the Crowd: Collecting Raw GNSS Data to Improve Weather Forecasting
The release of Android version 7.0 in 2016 allowed users to access raw data transmitted by the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) for the first time. More recently, it has become possible to re...
Dam Fine Data: Sub-millimetre-resolution UAS Dam Surveys
In early 2021, the Orthodrone team crowded itself and its equipment into a tiny Swiss gondola and made its way to one of two dams scheduled for water-side inspection – no easy feat, given the metres...
Enabling UAV-Lidar to Fly Higher
Innovations in Lidar technology continue to change the way we see our world – literally. There’s no denying that the Lidar sector is growing at an exponential rate. Research by Grand View Research...
The What, Where and When of Past Events
Only a small fraction of the information content in aerial films has ever been recorded on paper maps, most of which are inaccessible. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) to fully automate the pro...
Phase One Drone Supports 3D Bridge Inspection in the Netherlands
The use of a Phase One iXM-100 enabled EyeFly BV to fly closer to the Buggenum rail bridge in the Netherlands for the required annual bridge inspection. This achieved a resolution of close to 1mm g...
3DNL – The Netherlands from Every Angle
Smart digital realities that replicate real-life geoinformation provide valuable insights and support the analysis and interpretation of infinite data inputs from the real or digital world. They can b...
The Major Benefits
Why RTK Hardware Is Here to Stay
How accurate is accurate enough? If you’re like most land surveyors, the answer is “as much as possible.” With an RTK drone, surveyors and other drone pilots can expect centimetre-level positi...
Data-driven Results
Topcon’s SmoothRide Keeps German Road Resurfacing Project on Track
When construction company Matthäi was hired to resurface the busy B420 road around Fürfeld in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, it turned to Topcon technology to help meet tight deadlines and cope with...
Aerial Surveying Just Got Smart
Surveyors and GIS professionals have the highest standards when it comes to their tools and trade. It is therefore no wonder that many surveyors are turning to drones for their mapping and 3D modell...
ISPRS Conference
How Disruptive Technologies Shape Policy and the Social Landscape
Powerhouses of photogrammetry and remote sensing science and industry are set to gather in Nice, France, for the XXIV Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS...
Fly Higher, Fly Faster
Microdrones has taken yet another step forwards in drone solutions for aerial surveying, inspection and other mapping applications. The company’s new mid-market quadcopter system, the mdLiDAR1000LR,...
