Did you know that you can waste a week or more per year hunting for a parking space in busy cities? Smart parking apps offer a much-needed answer to the...

Looking back over the past 30 years, it’s hard to believe just how far we’ve come in such a relatively short space of time. Geomatics students in the mid-1980s were...

How does the size of the site and the surveying aim affect the need for terrestrial laser scanning equipment? This article explains more, illustrated by four examples of projects to...

CHC Navigation has released its i90 GNSS Series powered by the latest CHCNAV IMU-RTK technology to provide robust and accurate GNSS positioning, in any circumstances. The i90 IMU-RTK GNSS Series...

A landslide on Clifton Beach, New Zealand, earlier this year injured two Korean tourists when they were washed out to sea. Following this event, the beach was closed while Hastings...

RIEGL, a manufacturer of Lidar scanners for surveying applications headquartered in Horn, Austria, is investing heavily in the expansion of production and office space. The continued, worldwide demand for the...

RIEGL, a manufacturer of Lidar scanners for surveying applications headquartered in Horn, Austria, is investing heavily in the expansion of its production and office space. The continued, worldwide demand for...

Mozhdeh Shahbazi (PhD, PEng) has been an assistant professor in the Department of Geomatics Engineering at the University of Calgary since 2016. She is the supervisor of the Autonomous Mapping...

Precision agriculture has considerably benefited from the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, often combined with active ranging sensors like Lidar to gather information from underneath the crops, but existing systems...

A pilot project conducted at a university campus in Curitiba, Brazil, aimed to create outdoor maps using UAS photogrammetry as well as indoor floor plans. At universities, facility managers and...