Determining changes in the built-up area over time can be done in many ways. In the Czech Republic, only the large cities can afford to monitor such changes using advanced...

Bentley Systems has announced the acquisition of Agency9, based in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Agency9 has already provided nearly half of Sweden’s larger municipalities with city-scale 'digital twin' cloud services...

It is estimated that 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas. This number is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. Studies have shown that urbanization, combined with...

Which challenges were associated with deriving a digital twin to support constructional changes at a 100,000m² health clinic in Germany, and how were they overcome? Renovating existing buildings remains a...

To explore the contribution of UAVs to the spatial mapping process in urban environments, a team from Greece studied the use of aerial imagery to achieve wide coverage of a...

Innovative methodologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) are lowering the barriers and democratizing the use of 3D digital twins in the geospatial industry. Digital twins are revolutionizing the geospatial industry,...

At OxTS, in line with our brand promise of being inertial navigation experts, our commitment to our customers is that we will keep innovating until we can help them truly ‘navigate anywhere’ – with or without GNSS. We are advancing our products in that direction by first enhancing urban navigation data quality based on sensor fusion. Here, we explain how. At OxTS, in line with our brand promise of being inertial navigation experts, our commitment to our customers is that we will keep innovating until we can help them truly...

Lidar-powered Matterport technology was employed to create a 3D digital twin of the most famous inhabited bridge globally, the Krämerbrücke, situated in the city of Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany. The Krämerbrücke...