Mobile Mapping

Population growth, urbanization and rapid digitalization all represent global challenges, but they also offer opportunities for the geospatial industry, because reality capture technology is an essent...

Thanks to rapid improvements in aerial laser scanning systems, they offer great potential in road surveying compared with traditional photogrammetry-based methods. Using the high-density 3D point clou...

To find out more about the geomatics education situation across the globe, 'GIM International' spoke to several industry experts from academia around the world. Are the numbers of students in geomatic...

Under a new partnership, Bluesky International will provide its accurate, high-resolution aerial imagery of Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, alongside other geospatial datasets, to UP42, whi...

MGISS has signed a partnership agreement with Leica Geosystems to accelerate a data-driven approach to the capture, management and exploitation of asset information. MGISS is a leading UK-based geospa...

Researchers have been using GIS and 3D modelling techniques to create highly accurate maps of Pompeii. This has led to the development of a digital twin of the ancient Italian city, which was buried b...

What are the primary technical differences between crewed and uncrewed aerial vehicles and satellites when it comes to capturing images of Earth? Where do they overlap, and where do they diverge? By c...

Topcon Positioning Systems has recently acquired Digital Construction Works (DCW), a US-based company specializing in construction software, data integrations and services. DCW's software integration ...

We asked James Kavanagh, head of land & resources with The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), about the challenges facing the geospatial industry, the technological developments that wil...

Planet Labs is acquiring Earth observation (EO) data platform Sinergise. The move is aimed at reducing the complexity of analysis and insights extraction as well as the cost of EO data storage. It wil...

The International Association of Landscape Archaeology (IALA) has chosen a PhD thesis titled 'Learning to look at Lidar: combining CNN-based object detection and GIS for archaeological prospection in ...

The UK's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Tailte Éireann (formerly known as the Ordnance Survey of Ireland) have collaborated to launch a groundbreaking National Land Cover Map of Ireland. T...

FARO has recently launched its Hybrid Reality Capture solution, powered by Flash Technology. This innovative solution offers faster scanning for large-volume projects in architecture, engineering, con...

There is probably no one involved in surveying and geospatial modelling who believes that they could achieve accurate and reliable results without trigonometry and space-correlated time. But how many ...

Offering laser scanning services is rarely as glamorous as corporate brochures imply. It can be tricky to fund equipment costs, manage client demands and develop a successful pricing policy. To stand ...