The arrival of airborne Lidar, also referred to as airborne laser scanning (ALS), has revolutionized area-wide 3D data acquisition of topography, bathymetry, vegetation, buildings and infrastructure. This article presents an...

LiDARUSA has announced the integration of the Z+F scanners for mobile mapping into their portfolio. The Z+F Profiler is a high-speed, very precise (sub mm) 360-degree scanner providing more than...

Without a doubt, this year’s GEO Business was the biggest and best yet. The heart of the event is the exhibition and this year there were 203 exhibitors from 25...

Leica Geosystems has released the new Leica Pegasus:Two Ultimate, an upgrade to its current mobile mapping platform bringing higher-quality digital reality capture to the market. With the new mobile mapping...

A new chapter in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has begun with the announcement of Texas-based firm Ocean Infinity being hired to locate the missing wreckage. They could...

The flexibility and increasing versatility of unmanned vehicle systems (UVS) are increasingly popular. This means that knowledge on the use of these systems is increasing as well. It was therefore...

Surveying Britain’s 2000 miles of inland waterways is specialised work. Kate Rowlatt and John Williams show how a new compact custom system aboard a bespoke survey vessel is capturing cleaner...

As the world's population keeps growing and changes in buildings and infrastructures become more rapid, there is an increasing need to document this growth and these changes. A revolutionary approach to...

Hexagon was recently awarded the first and second prizes in the Wichmann Innovations Award programme held during the Intergeo conference and trade fair in Stuttgart, Germany. Honours went to Leica...

Hexagon, a leading global provider of information technologies that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial enterprise applications, recently was awarded the first- and second-place prizes in the Wichmann...