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...

In recent years, Topcon appeared to focus primarily on the construction and infrastructure industry – a domain in which the company’s equipment and solutions are essential for measuring, automatin...

We recently had the privilege to sit down with Prudence Xu, regional sales director at ComNav Technology, to hear more about his company’s vision on the evolving geospatial landscape. In this conver...

A remarkable digital heritage initiative recently took shape in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca: the high-precision 3D documentation of the Casino, a sophisticated early-twentieth-century landmark th...

When people think of geospatial technologies, they often imagine drones, sensors and smart maps, but rarely think about the underlying reference frames that provide reliability. Awareness of geodesy�...

The most recent edition of Intergeo – the world’s leading geospatial gathering – left no doubt that geoinformation has moved into the mainstream. What was once a specialist field now shapes soci...