Mobile Mapping

In early 2021, the Orthodrone team crowded itself and its equipment into a tiny Swiss gondola and made its way to one of two dams scheduled for water-side inspection – no easy feat, given the metres...

FARO Technologies has launched a new data capture and collaboration platform providing an efficient cloud-based workflow combining three innovative new solutions: the FARO Sphere digital ecosystem for...

NASA researchers and their industry partners have developed a remote sensing mapping system to aid explorers in the most isolated wilderness imaginable: the airless wastes at the South Pole of the Moo...

High-resolution topographic data reveals new faults, landslides, hydrothermal systems and volcanic features never documented before. Able to see through vegetation, Lidar maps the bare earth, unveili...

SPH Engineering has announced the third generation of the UgCS SkyHub hardware and released the largest update of the UgCS SkyHub software ever. The development accumulates five years of knowledge of ...

Topcon Positioning Group has opened a new advanced European distribution centre in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. The new site has been built as part of the Dutch Tech Campus. The new facility features ...

When it comes to monitoring the condition of roads, UAV technology can overcome many of the downsides associated with traditional methods, which can be time-consuming, labour-intensive and sometimes s...

Thanks to sensor miniaturization, laser technology is available for surveying and mapping professionals in many different guises nowadays. This selection of articles highlights the diversity of Lidar ...

Maxar Technologies has announced its strategic investment in Blackshark.ai, a leading provider of AI-powered geospatial analytics services. Maxar is a provider of comprehensive space solutions and sec...

Wingtra has launched its new MicaSense RedEdge Panchromatic (RE-P) payload. Capturing with the same five bands as the time-tested RedEdge-MX, the RE-P introduces a panchromatic sensor for enhanced res...

Juniper Systems has introduced the all-new Geode GNS3 GNSS receiver. It enables users to easily collect real-time GNSS data with sub-metre, sub-foot and decimetre accuracy options – without the hu...

CHC Navigation (CHCNAV) has released the AlphaAir 1400 (AA1400) and AlphaAir 2400 (AA2400) Lidar systems. Both solutions are compact airborne laser scanners that are easily installed on various UAV pl...

Innovations in Lidar technology continue to change the way we see our world – literally. There’s no denying that the Lidar sector is growing at an exponential rate. Research by Grand View Research...

Watch how a single operator using a RIEGL VZ-400i in Stop-&-Go Mode on top of the MATTRO ROVO DC ATV can record more than 400 scan positions in 8 hours.  ...

Only a small fraction of the information content in aerial films has ever been recorded on paper maps, most of which are inaccessible. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) to fully automate the pro...