Smart apps, shifting reference frames, improving mapping in the deep ocean and engagement with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals can all help geospatial to capture the public imagination argues Gordon...

Today’s geodata acquisition technologies combine microprocessors, computer power, solid state drives, complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensors, miniaturisation and many more developments. But demand is just as important as supply, and demand is...

May saw Esri UK’s biggest yet user conference. Held in the QEII conference centre in Westminster, the event attracted over 3,000 preregistrations drawn by the opportunity to attend a choice...

At the RICS Geomatics Christmas Lecture on 8th December last year a new chair of the Geomatics Professional Group Board succeeded Chris Preston, who had held the position for the...

Airborne Lidar has matured over the last two decades into a mapping technology routinely used for 3D modelling of urban areas, capturing boreal forests, seabed mapping and many other applications...

Ocean Business took place between 14-16 April at the National Oceanographic Centre in Southampton. There were over 300 exhibitors in two giant marquees, a three-day schedule of training and demonstration...

Until now, most commercially available airborne Lidar systems have operated on one single wavelength, reflecting energy from a pulse which is then used for classification or visualisation. New developments have...

Until now, most commercially available airborne Lidar systems have operated on one single wavelength, reflecting energy from a pulse which is then used for classification or visualisation. New developments have...

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has awarded Fugro a contract that will see the deployment of its specialist vessel, equipment and expertise in the underwater search for the missing...

This year’s HxGN Live, Hexagon Metrology’s annual user conference, was once again held in Las Vegas, USA, from 2-6 June. Its maxim: ‘Great Stories Start Here’. From a geomatics point...