Pan-European datasets from EuroGeographics and their role in cross-border climate action are highlighted in a COP26 briefing paper calling on governments to recognize the value of official location data. The...

'GIM International' spoke to Blickfeld, a developer of Lidar sensors and software, to hear about other potentially relevant applications in smart cities, besides for autonomous driving. Despite the name, a self-driving...

The Sanborn Map Company has been selected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for a multiple-award indefinite-delivery contract with an upper limit of USD850 million. The Geospatial Product and Services...

Read this interview with Topcon's Ulrich Hermanski for his views on the current status of the surveying profession, the key advances and the future role of surveyors. Since graduating in...

Topcon Positioning Group has announced an expansion of the Topnet Live Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) network of correction solutions to support today’s work environments. The newly expanded global network...

Emerging satellite data providers ConstellR and ScanWorld have announced a new partnership which aims to leverage combined Earth observation expertise to provide data-driven insights for agriculture and vegetation monitoring. The...

Trimble has announced the creation of Trimble Ventures, a venture fund focused on investing in early and growth-stage innovative companies that align with Trimble's mission of transforming work in the agriculture, construction, geospatial and...

Technological advancements have brought increasingly compact instruments, enabling more rapid data acquisition and powerful processing abilities even in extreme field environments like glaciers, according to Tommaso Santagata, surveyor and speleologist from VIGEA – Virtual Geographic Agency and part of the Patagonia team. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better,” Albert Einstein is quoted as saying. And indeed, looking deep into glaciers can help us understand climate change. But...

The mission: capturing 21 quarries in 60 days. Squeezed into that timeframe were planning and performing the UAV photogrammetry flights, editing the RAW images, processing the data, extracting the topography using Virtual Surveyor, and production of the orthophotos, Digital Surface Model (DSM), Digital Terrain Model (DTM) and contour maps for each site. The main client, a government institute, needed highly precise and reliable 3D models and maps fast, as well as data their engineers could work with in a CAD environment. “There was a lot of pressure because of the short timeline”, said Nuno Santos, owner and CEO of Aerisurvey, a Mangualde, Portugal-based company specialized in high-precision UAV surveying. Mapping 21 Quarries in 60 Days The mission was to capture 21 quarries in 60 days. Squeezed into that timeframe were planning and performing the UAV photogrammetry flights, editing the...

General Electric (GE) and Microdrones have entered into a worldwide licensing partnership. Microdrones will bring the GE industrial drone line to market globally, providing professionals access to powerful aerial surveying...