Laser scanning systems have gone through a major evolution in the past decade. After the initial breakthrough of airborne laser scanners (ALS), other types of laser scanning s... (read more)

Mapping company HERE, co-owned by German automotive companies Audi, BMW, and Daimler, uses a fleet of more than 200 cars to collect dense point cloud data about roads around t... (read more)

Jacobs Geomatics provides support and consultancy to the company’s wider design and engineering services. In recent years Jacobs’ UK geomatics team has been involv... (read more)

Due to the rapid changes of urbanisation, up-to-date, complex and realistic building models enriched with facade features are increasingly in demand in many countries. The Mob... (read more)

Over the last few years street-level mobile mapping and reality capturing has quietly become one of the most important geospatial mapping technologies. There are already hundr... (read more)

A mobile mapping system (MMS) enables laser data and images of a road and its vicinity to be collected from a van or other moving platform. Here, the author describes data col... (read more)

As the world's population keeps growing and changes in buildings and infrastructures become more rapid, there is an increasing need to document this growth and these chan... (read more)

In Yaoundé, Cameroon, little cartographic data of the road network, public assets and utilities is available. To efficiently renovate the city’s drinking water ne... (read more)

Geomatics engineering is an emerging technology discipline that specialises in acquiring, processing, modelling, analysing, and managing geospatial information. The Geomatics... (read more)

Students in their second - and hence final - year of the Master in Geomatics programme at Delft University of Technology embarked on a ten-week Geomatics Synthesis Projec... (read more)