How Geospatial Technology is Vital for Exploring Mars
When NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars earlier this month, it was equipped with some of the most precise maps of Mars ever created, courtesy of the USGS Astrogeology S...
When NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars earlier this month, it was equipped with some of the most precise maps of Mars ever created, courtesy of the USGS Astrogeology S...
Traditional methods of information management are hard to use in the planning process of problematic urban areas such as squatter settlements. GIS provides the capability for dynam...
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Petabytes of geographic and spatial data are being captured every day, but how to store, retrieve, manage, display and analyse this mind-dazzling quantity? A Geographic Information System (GIS) is the technology for making better decisions about location and the solution to capture, manipulate and present all types of geospatial data. This month is dedicated to GIS and therefore, we feature a selection of articles which have previously been published in GIM International magazine.
The 2020 GIS Software Technology Conference (GTC 2020) was successfully held from 7 to 18 September 2020. Themed ‘Geo-intelligence Connecting the Future’, the conferenc...
The City of Tamba in Hyogo prefecture, Japan, performs field survey work using a mobile GIS application designed for Apple iPad tablet computers. The application, called Mobile Mat...
Elnav has launched its E-Tab series: industrial-level Android tablets with high-accuracy GNSS inside. The E-Tab series is designed for GIS professionals in the field and has advanc...
The latest aerial photography is helping the police in North Yorkshire, the UK's largest county, to save time and resources and transform policing. Supplied by Bluesky Internationa...
Avineon, a US-based geospatial products and services provider, has announced the acquisition of Tensing. As one of the leading GIS consulting companies in the Netherlands, Tensing...
'What if we put fit-for-purpose land administration thinking into a single app?' wonders Brent Jones, the man who oversees Esri's worldwide strategic planning, business develo...
Over the last three years, building information modelling (BIM) has undergone rapid development around the world. The value chain of design, construction and operation of built ass...
As the world became captivated with the challenge of rescuing the 12 soccer boys and their coach from deep within the Tham Luang Nang Non cave system in Thailand, GIS was applied t...
To gain real insight into today’s geospatial business landscape, ‘GIM International’ decided to ask some of the sector’s most influential companies for thei...
Nikken Sekkei Research Institute in Tokyo, Japan, has developed a vision for cities to help them choose an energy optimisation strategy for neighbourhoods comprising a variety of b...
To improve the situation of the extremely high price level of real estate and to address the issue of adequate housing, the Taiwanese government has established the Real Estate Tra...
Today’s advanced computer technology enables several players to play the same game at the same time. Can the visualisation technology used in 3D multiplayer games designed fo...
The term ‘superhero’, to which the copyright is owned jointly by the two biggest comic-book firms in the United States – Marvel and DC Comics – generally re...
Three colleagues and I have been wrestling for two years with how we can best deliver a new version of our GIS textbook. The three previous editions have been successful, having so...
“Staying private and debt-free gives us a level of freedom to do the right thing that we would never have in a heavily-leveraged company or public company,” Jack Danger...
Menno-Jan Kraak is the newly elected president of the International Cartographic Association (ICA). Cartographer Kraak is a professor in Geovisual Analytics and Cartography at the...
SmarterBetterCities is a software company located in Zurich, Switzerland, which creates CloudCities: a cloud platform for smart city planning and smarter urban management. In line...
The INSPIRE Directive was introduced in 2007 and should reach full implementation in 2020. Today, over halfway through the process, various important milestones have already been a...
As Google’s geospatial technologist, Ed Parsons is responsible for evangelising Google’s mission to organise the world’s information using geography. GIM Internat...
Esri recently exhibited at The Next Web Europe, a conference focused on entrepreneurship, technology and startups in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. But why was Esri involved? Is it lo...
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