Accurate bathymetric mapping of shallow areas is essential for many offshore activities. Through Structure from Motion (SfM) and Multiview Stereo (MVS) techniques, images can provide a low-cost alternative compared to Lidar...

Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) recently launched LINZ Basemaps – a digital mapping background that provides context on which additional layers of information can be overlaid. LINZ’s acting chief executive...

Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) recently launched LINZ Basemaps – a digital mapping background that provides context on which additional layers of information can be overlaid. LINZ’s acting Chief Executive...

No statistics could possibly convey the importance of energy to our economies and everyday lives. Nearly everything people interact with on a daily basis has a source of power. Growth...

The concept of Satellite Structural Health Monitoring (S-SHM) was conceived as a new way of analysing and understanding the behaviour of assets and infrastructures as a whole, integrated in their...

FIG Commission 5 focuses on meeting the highest level of accuracy for Positioning and Measurement. It provides the tools, techniques and procedures to educate and train surveying professionals everywhere. Appropriate...

A continuously operating reference station (CORS) provides GNSS data to support very accurate 3D positioning and additional geophysical applications. Flemish Positioning Services (FLEPOS) is the real-time global navigation satellite system...

Fugro's first priority is to protect the health and safety of employees, partners and clients, the company states. The company is therefore taking appropriate measures to ensure business continuity. Current...

Mark Heine is chairman of the board and CEO of Fugro, with the headquarters in the Netherlands. Fugro is the leading and largest specialised survey company in the world, serving the full lifecycle of assets, and calls itself a Geo-data specialist. For the avid mountaineer Heine, challenges are never too high to take on, not even heading up a multinational in transition, from a company largely dependent on the oil and gas industry to one that wants to co-create a sustainable and liveable world. We talked to Mark Heine about leadership style, strategies for finding new employees, and Seabed 2030. About this ambitious project, Heine says ‘Commercial companies need to work together with NGOs and academia to make this happen.’ Mark Heine is chairman of the board and CEO of Fugro, which is headquartered in the Netherlands. Fugro is among the leading and largest specialized survey companies in the world,...

As the years progress towards 2030, many challenges and opportunities may emerge for the profession across a wide spectrum of activities. The democratization of geospatial data and the rapid advancement...