Collecting geospatial data from a moving platform is known as mobile mapping. Mobile mapping systems are often equipped with a variety of photographic, radar, Lidar or other types of remote sensing systems. GIM International has picked a selection of the best mobile mapping stories, ranging from mobile mapping using cars to other platforms such as a backpack.
Beneath the unbroken canopy of the southwestern Amazon, where satellite images show nothing but green, laser beams fired from an aircraft have exposed the ghostly outlines of an ancient civilization t...
To fund a significant expansion of its data infrastructure and a deeper push into AI, NavVis has raised US$85 million in funding. The fresh capital injection comes at a time when the Munich-based prov...
To achieve broader reach across infrastructure, energy, utilities, transportation, land development and natural resources, TiC Solutions has acquired GeoVerra, one of Canada's largest surveying and ge...
In order to offer integrators a way to keep navigating when GPS can't be trusted, Javad GNSS has introduced a new GNSS+INS product line. The family of tightly integrated GNSS and inertial navigation s...
Southeastern Surveying and Mapping Corporation (SSMC) has added the VMX-2HA mobile mapping system to its geospatial data acquisition operations, expanding the firm's mobile Lidar capacity for infrastr...
Europe's busiest airport has deployed Heathrow Explorer, a new geospatial and data platform aimed at streamlining operations at Heathrow in the UK. The platform consolidates infrastructure and asset d...
Despite underpinning the built environment, the geospatial discipline is still misunderstood, undervalued and inconsistently embedded in decision-making. This disconnect creates tangible risk, from ta...
Emlid has introduced Emlid Corrections, a new RTK correction service integrated directly into its Reach line of GNSS receivers and the Emlid Flow mobile app. The service, powered by Point One Navigati...
The European Commission is investing €6 million in a new programme to support free and open-source software in the geospatial domain. The GeoCommons programme will grant funding directly to research...
The Bahamas has received a significant boost to its geospatial capabilities, with Britain's national mapping service, Ordnance Survey (OS), donating 170 field survey kits to strengthen mapping and sur...
In a deal structured as an arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act, Intermap Technologies will acquire all outstanding PCI Geomatics shares not already in its possession, using US$11 mi...
A new partnership is bringing autonomous flight into tighter, harder-to-reach spaces. Exyn Technologies – known for its work in autonomous mapping and AI-powered navigation across GPS-denied environ...
While oblique airborne camera systems have been a staple in geospatial applications for over 15 years, the extraction of high-accuracy, 3D value-added products from oblique datasets is today expanding...
To support the design of pluvial runoff and sanitary drainage infrastructure for a large-scale residential development in Mexico, a 1,700-hectare aerial survey was conducted. The team overcame challen...
A ten-year agreement signed recently in Hamburg, Germany, has laid the groundwork for a long-term partnership around the organization of future Intergeo events that will once again alternate between v...