Counting Down to Intergeo 2022
Preparations for Intergeo 2022, the world’s leading conference and trade fair for the geodesy, geoinformation and land management community, are in full swing. This year’s event, featuring three f...
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Mobile Mapping
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.
Leica Geosystems Unveils New Leica DMC-4 Airborne Imaging Sensor
Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, has launched the Leica DMC-4, a highly efficient airborne imaging sensor providing unsurpassed image quality for various applications and complex mapping environment...
Diane Dumashie Elected as New President of FIG
Dr Diane Dumashie won the final vote at the FIG Congress 2022 in Warsaw and will serve as the next president of FIG for the next four years. She stated that she is looking forward to four years of fru...
UAV Surveys Help Port of Rotterdam to Expand
Van Oord is using Marlyn Cobalt survey drones to ensure design conformance and increase safety at the Port of Rotterdam, the largest container port in Europe. The Dutch port is currently expanding its...
Vodafone and Topcon to Develop Mass-market Precise Positioning System
Vodafone and Topcon Positioning Group have committed to the development of a new mass-market precise positioning system that will locate Internet of Things (IoT) devices, machinery and vehicles with a...
Major International Donors Fund New Cadasta Projects
As Cadasta's work has grown to more than 100 projects worldwide, the foundation has expanded and diversified its funding base to include several large donors in the land sector. Cadasta is a leading g...
New AI Algorithms Streamline Data Processing for Earth Observation Instruments
Transforming the raw data gathered by Earth-observing instruments into actionable knowledge is a challenging task, especially when instruments have to decide for themselves which data points are most ...
Using Airborne Lidar Technology to Map Greenland Arctic Summer Sea Ice
Researchers from the Bureau of Economic Geology have spent the summer in northwestern Greenland conducting research using an airborne Lidar system. The project – Airborne Lidar surveys to quantify G...
FARO Acquires Mobile Mapping Pioneer GeoSLAM
FARO has announced the acquisition of one the world's mobile scanning market leaders: GeoSLAM. With proprietary high-productivity simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) software to create 3D mod...
World Bank Approves Grant to Strengthen Land Administration in Sierra Leone
The World Bank has approved a US$41.1 million International Development Association (IDA) grant to support the establishment of an efficient and accessible land administration system in Sierra Leone. ...
Use of GIS Tools for Land Expansion in Colombia
Local indigenous youngsters have mapped the boundaries and sacred sites of their village, Gunmaku in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, northern Colombia, and the indigenous authorities are happy with ...
YellowScan and FIXAR Present Integrated Lidar and UAV Solution
In a new partnership with YellowScan, FIXAR's flagship UAV model, the FIXAR 007, will be upgraded with a YellowScan Lidar system. YellowScan is one of the leading designers of next-generation Lidar so...
Monitoring Mountain Glaciers with TanDEM-X Radar Satellites
It is important to keep a watchful eye on glacial melt to avoid the sudden collapse of glaciers leading to tragedy, such as happened at the Marmolada glacier in the Italian Dolomites in July 2022. Bes...
Think Big for Coastal Mapping
“Think big for coastal mapping” is the foremost advice that Don Ventura of Teledyne Geospatial would impress upon agencies interested in bathymetric Lidar. “It’s a matter of efficiency of scal...
MariaDB Strengthens Geospatial Capabilities with Acquisition of CubeWerx
MariaDB has acquired CubeWerx, a leader in geospatial solutions, for an undisclosed amount. With this acquisition, MariaDB adds cloud-native, scalable geospatial capabilities that the company plans to...