How is the geospatial industry evolving in today’s turbulent times? The climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, shifting geopolitical balances – societal challenges are having a major impact on the global...

A special issue of the 'Land' journal highlights the latest Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration innovations, demonstrating that FFPLA is increasingly gaining momentum and acceptance. The Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration approach, which was...

Powerhouses of photogrammetry and remote sensing science and industry are set to gather in Nice, France, for the XXIV Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) from 6-11 June 2022. Powerhouses of photogrammetry and remote sensing science and industry are set to gather in Nice, France, for the XXIV Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)...

Bringing together over 1,300 participants from all over the world for a week packed with inspiring sessions, the FIG e-Working Week can be regarded as a success story of the...

A recent project has celebrated 100 years of geodetic and photogrammetric innovation by 3D-digitizing an iconic WILD T2 theodolite from the 1927 series. An app has also been developed for...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced that the OGC Membership has approved the CityGML v3.0 Conceptual Model for adoption as an official OGC Standard.  Since its first publication by...

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...

FIG has been bringing surveyors and geospatial experts together since 1878, and this year is no exception. Apart from the inauguration in 1878 and the second meeting in 1910, surveyors...

The front cover of our brand new issue of GIM International shows Ljubljana Castle standing on a small hill in the centre of the Slovenian capital, which was the site...

Exploring the Aleph-1 Constellation: multiple global daily revisits, expanded spectral capacities and increased access for the EU AIRDATE: 18 March 2021 In 2020, European Space Imaging became the founding member...