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Over the last few weeks, coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread all over the world. Countries such as China, Italy and Spain are particularly impacted, but almost every country across the globe is affected...
Nearly all engineering, architecture and construction (AEC) professionals focus on finding new ways to increase margins and reduce liability in their businesses. As technology moves so quickly, it can...
In a project in Haiti, several remotely sensed indicators were assessed to predict the completeness of Open Street Map for use in disaster relief and to guide future mapping efforts. Timely informatio...
Canada’s Pollutant Inventories and Reporting Division (PIRD) faces the massive task of creating a greenhouse gas inventory for the entire nation. A key part of this analysis is the use of remotely s...
How can we address the need for frequent large-scale mapping in order to model real-time change? In this column, John Welter, president of geospatial content solutions at Hexagon Geosystems, zooms in ...
Aside from the normal barriers to implementing change within a business, additional barriers exist in the case of building information modelling (BIM). Implementing BIM requires leadership, a team wit...
Bentley Systems and WSB are collaborating to promote the use of infrastructure digital twins in civil infrastructure projects. WSB, an American design and consulting firm, has launched a digital const...
Presagis recently released the V5D Plugin for Unreal Engine, which lets users load GIS-generated V5D digital twins into Unreal Engine. This integration enables the creation of highly realistic visuali...
EDF, a French electric utility company, has partnered with Esri UK to implement an enterprise GIS for Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear power station, one of the largest and most complex construction proj...
MariaDB has acquired CubeWerx, a leader in geospatial solutions, for an undisclosed amount. With this acquisition, MariaDB adds cloud-native, scalable geospatial capabilities that the company plans to...
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced that it is a founding member of the newly launched Metaverse Standards Forum. The Metaverse Standards Forum, hosted by Khronos Group, brings together...
Cartography is about describing the world in the form of maps and diagrams. Classic cartography produces paper maps but nowadays this field also encompasses Geographical Information Systems and the products produced by these systems. Cartography is heavily dependent on data from [Remote sensing] and [Land surveying and topography] for the dry part of our world and [marine surveying and bathymetry] for the wet parts of our world.
Cartography / GIS can be found in almost any industry vertical where it transforms the various data sources into products readily useable in for example [land and water management], [climate] and [farming and conservation].
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