A gold mine in China’s Shandong Province is the country’s first underground mine to use 3D laser scanning. During a one-year project, 20km of major tunnels were scanned and the...

Maptek, the Australian provider of innovative software, hardware and services for the global mining industry, has released a new laser scanner designed specifically for underground applications. The versatile I-Site 8200...

For decades, scientists have disagreed about whether the sea is higher or lower heading north along the east coast of North America. Gravity data from ESA’s GOCE satellite contributed to...

Nowadays, navigation systems have become an integral part of everyday life. But since GNSS-based systems do not work in locations where no GNSS signals can be received, a navigation solution...

One of the world’s most successful military training aircraft, the PZL-130 TC Orlik manufactured by EADS PZL Warszawa-Okecie S.A., Poland, is now being levelled with the aid of a Nikon...

When establishing heights on large geodetic networks, the main problem surveyors encounter are wide bodies of water, such as rivers, that need to be crossed without losing accuracy. Thanks to...

It's a fine tradition around this time of the year: trying to identify what the hot topics will be in the coming year. Many magazines and television shows are looking...

Having led the famous Wuhan University, home to the world's biggest geomatics faculty, from 2003 to 2008, professor Liu Jingnan is one of the most respected Chinese academics in geodesy...

Everyone who truly matters in the geomatics and surveying-related business will be travelling to Germany ¨C or more precisely to the Bavarian city of Nuremberg ¨C in the last week...

Everyone who truly matters in the geomatics and surveying-related business will be travelling to Germany – or more precisely to the Bavarian city of Nuremberg – in the last week...