In this month’s Insider’s View Prof. Heinz Rüther puts some critical points on the shortcomings of laser-scanning technology in the spatial documentation of heritage sites. We invited manufacturers of laser-scanning...

Intermap Technologies (CO, USA) has announced that it has provided the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS)...

During the past year the Faculty of Geodesy at the University of Zagreb has introduced fundamental reform of all its education programmes, undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate doctoral studies, and established...

NavCom Technology (CA, USA) has introduced an enhanced version of VueStar aerial survey solution combining its new StarPac utility software that facilitates better integration into pre-existing workflows. VueStar's complete global...

Geomagic (NC, USA), a software and services firm, released Geomagic Studio 9. This latest release of the digital reconstruction software features three areas of enhancement: 3D feature-based modelling, advanced colour...

Data modelling, interoperability, spatial data infrastructure, OpenGIS and GML/XML are important for data access and eGovernment developments in cadastre and land administration. Geo-referenced information also has a crucial role in...

Bentley hosted its first European user conference two weeks after the one in Charlotte, USA. More than a thousand participants met in Prague from 11th to 14th June for training,...

Bentley Systems, Incorporated (PA, USA) has announced that it has acquired RAM International, LLC , a provider of structural engineering software for building structures made from all major materials, including...

This issue of GIM is largely devoted to emergent Lidar technology. We have a feature on 3D-visualisation of Lidar data co-authored by new contributing editor Dr Bharat Lohani of IIT...

A Lidar sensor generates hundreds of millions of XYZ coordinates in a few hours. From this massive number of sampled points one wants to reconstruct surfaces Lidar points are described...