The rugged 22.5-acre site of the notorious US island prison Alcatraz has been digitally captured in a world-leading project involving multiple mapping technologies. With the team camped in the jail’s infamous cells for three weeks during the cold San Francisco winter, this historically, biologically and architecturally important location was recorded in unprecedented 3D detail. We discussed the project with project head Pete Kelsey and team member Dr Jeremy Sofonia. The rugged 22.5-acre site of the notorious US island prison Alcatraz has been digitally captured in a world-leading project involving multiple mapping technologies. With the team camped in the jail’s infamous cells...

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The city of Munich launched an innovation competition and provided developmental support to the winner, Holo-Light. This ultimately resulted in the development of an award-winning augmented reality-based 3D city model...

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Visitor registration is now open for GEO Business, the UK's largest geospatial event. The free-to-attend expo, tailored for geospatial professionals seeking to harness the potential of location intelligence, will return...

Sven Cowan is NV5 Geospatial’s Programme Manager for Canada. He has over 20 years of experience in customer-facing positions within the geospatial information industry and has worked for multiple geospatial...

Trimble has unveiled the integration of the Trimble Applanix POSPac Cloud post-processed kinematic (PPK) GNSS positioning service, featuring CenterPoint RTX, with the UAV-based mapping and data collection capabilities of DroneDeploy’s reality...

The AlphaUni 20 (AU20) Lidar system represents a new era in cost-effective, multi-platform mobile mapping solutions, according to CHC Navigation (CHCNav), a global leader in precision mapping, positioning and navigation...

Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, has officially announced the Leica BLK2GO PULSE. This innovative first-person laser scanner merges state-of-the-art Lidar sensor technology with the iconic Leica BLK2GO design, representing a...