Mobile Mapping

The Crown Estate was recently awarded Esri’s ‘Special Achievement in GIS Award’ for its innovative seabed planning programme across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This pioneering spatial p...

In this episode of Mapping the Conversations, Valrie Grant is joined by Rolando Ocampo, the Chief of the Statistics Division at UN ECLAC, for a deep dive into the intersection of statistics and geospa...

On 23 and 24 October, the 7th FIG Young Surveyors European Meeting (7YSEM) will take place in Bucharest, Romania, famously known as the ‘Land of Dracula’. The event is jointly organized by the FIG...

RIEGL has officially moved into series production of the RiLOC-E, a fully integrated subsystem for localization and orientation, designed for its miniVUX-series UAV Lidar sensors. The first units, eq...

Phisat-2 (Φsat2), a 6U CubeSat designed to demonstrate the transformative capabilities of in-orbit AI for Earth observation, has been launched successfully from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Califor...

Due to the specifics of the Baltic Sea, performing accurate measurements in the coastal zone is not an easy task. For the past decade, topographic laser scanners have been used for the periodic monito...

Onocoy has officially launched a global real-time kinematic (RTK) service called Onocoy RTK. According to the company, this is a groundbreaking new initiative that has the potential to transform high-...

As infrastructure monitoring becomes more crucial, so too does the availability of appropriate technology. High-frequency automated data collection is the way forward. This article provides an overvie...

Planet Labs, a prominent provider of daily Earth data and insights, has extended its partnership with the Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI) until the end of 2026. This contract marks Planet's largest ...

Sanborn Map Company has announced the acquisition of VeriDaaS, a technology company at the forefront of Geiger-mode Lidar innovation. This move supports Sanborn’s strategic objective of sustaining g...

Many surveyors have come to depend on the connectivity, consistency and quality of the Trimble VRS Now correction service, and for a good reason: it works. It is a solid, proven, cost-effective tool p...

Naver has embarked on a groundbreaking five-year initiative with the Saudi Arabian government to develop digital twin platforms for Riyadh and four other major cities. This ambitious project, a corner...

Cesium Moon Terrain, the first readily accessible, comprehensive 3D tileset of the moon, is now available. This innovative tileset is composed of precise terrain and imagery from NASA’s Lunar Reconn...

In this engaging episode of Mapping the Conversations, host Valrie Grant sits down with David Henderson, chief geospatial officer at Ordnance Survey (OS), for an illuminating discussion on the transfo...

Maxar Intelligence has unveiled the first images from its next-generation WorldView Legion satellites, with the initial pair launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on 2 May 2024. On 16...