As part of a Catalan government project to improve the management of its marine environment, ICGC cooperated with Field to use airborne Lidar bathymetry (ALB) to survey the Catalan coastal...

Thanks to rapid improvements in aerial laser scanning systems, they offer great potential in road surveying compared with traditional photogrammetry-based methods. Using the high-density 3D point clouds resulting from aerial...

The International Association of Landscape Archaeology (IALA) has chosen a PhD thesis titled 'Learning to look at Lidar: combining CNN-based object detection and GIS for archaeological prospection in remotely-sensed data'...

The Mach9 software platform produces 2D and 3D maps from mobile Lidar 30 times faster than existing solutions, according to the North American company. This is the first product launched...

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 construction...

Concordia University researchers have developed a faster and more accurate technique for creating highly detailed 3D models of large-scale landscapes. With this technique, digital replicas of real-world environments can be...

Serving as a former co-chair of UN-GGIM and a long career in the geospatial arena, Tim Trainor has a deep understanding of the value of the UN-IGIF. He serves as...

Jere Raninen has an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Eastern Finland. Currently, he is working as an IT expert at the National Land Survey of Finland (NLS)....

The National Land Survey of Finland (NLS) is a good example of how artificial intelligence (AI) is entering national mapping agencies. Approximately two years ago, NLS set up the Advanced...

Global climate change and, in some areas, the lack of a cheap and reliable energy supply are contributing to the expansion of photovoltaics, both regionally and worldwide. In addition to...