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Airbus has awarded Thales Alenia Space a landmark €345 million contract for a flagship component of the EU's Copernicus programme on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA). The deal marks a major...
Global Earth observation specialist SI Imaging Services (SIIS) has secured a landmark multi-year contract worth tens of millions of dollars to deliver its SpaceEye-T Satellite-as-a-Service (Sat-aaS) p...
Hexagon has acquired ITRES, the Calgary-based provider of high-performance airborne hyperspectral and thermal imaging systems, strengthening its ability to deliver richer multi-sensor geospatial data ...
We have received the sad news that Professor Peter Dale – surveyor, academic and former president of FIG (1996-1999) – died peacefully on 21 May 2026, just short of his 90th birthday. He is widely...
Setting new benchmarks in accuracy, speed and field-to-office connectivity, Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, has launched the Leica RTC series. This is a ground-up redesign of its terrestrial laser ...
In what Ouster describes as the most significant advancement in Lidar's history, it has recently unveiled Rev8, a new family of digital Lidar sensors. Powered by its next-generation L4 Ouster Silicon,...
SimActive's Correlator3D is helping Landair Surveys map Australia's planned burns faster, smarter and at scale. The technology supports time-sensitive aerial mapping operations where fast and accurate...
Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand has released new high-resolution coastal Lidar point cloud data, offering one of the most detailed digital representations of New Zealand's coastline to d...
The World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC) has announced its support for the Executive Doctor of Geospatial Leadership (DGEO), the first professional doctorate of its kind, to be offered jointly by ...
After rigorously validating the Leica TerrainMapper-3, including while aerial mapping Mount Rainier, NV5 has integrated the system into its airborne survey fleet. The evaluation programme put it throu...
Intergeo 2026 will arrive this September as the sector’s principal forum for all the challenges facing the geospatial industry, just as it has for decades. This year, the sector is convening in Muni...
Following a vote held at the XXVIII FIG Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, Michalis Kalogiannakis of Greece has been elected president of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) for the 2027...
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