The brand-new United Nations Global Geodetic Centre of Excellence (UN-GGCE) is now operational at the United Nations campus in Bonn, Germany. Nicholas Brown, head of office of the UN-GGCE, is...

EuroGeographics is drawing attention to the indispensable role of official national geospatial data in enhancing Copernicus Services, particularly within land monitoring and emergency management. This highlights a reinforced partnership between...

Geodesy: the definition, pronunciation, information and more. Definition The classical definition of geodesy [pronunciation: jee-od-uh-see] is that it is the science concerned with the shape, size, and the gravity field of the Earth. However, geodesy today is...

Urs Hugentobler is a professor of Satellite Geodesy and heads the Satellite Geodesy Research Facility of the Technical University of Munich, which operates the Geodetic Observatory Wettzell together with the...

Roland Pail is a professor of Astronomical and Physical Geodesy at the Technical University of Munich. His research activities focus on global and regional modelling of the Earth’s gravity field,...

Detlef Angermann holds a doctorate in Geodesy and heads the Focus Area Reference Systems at the Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (DGFI-TUM) of the Technical University of Munich. His research focuses on...

Global reference systems such as the International Terrestrial Reference Frame provide the foundation for determining positions on Earth and in space, as well as for reliably quantifying our planet’s changes...

The EAASI Summit 2023 in Lisbon in November was a resounding success. While the aerial surveying association’s fifth annual gathering highlighted the growing unity within the industry, there was also...