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.
Infrastructure failures rarely happen without warning, but the signals are often too subtle to detect through periodic inspections alone. Basetime is addressing this gap with the launch of Locator Two...
Land in many of the world's major river deltas is sinking faster than previously thought, according to a decade of radar observations from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite mission. In some regions,...
A new organization with a clear ambition has recently entered the geospatial landscape. Taylor Geospatial was established to harness the power of artificial intelligence in advancing geospatial scienc...
Desert Creative Group and Tersus GNSS have collaborated on the 3D capture of Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado, USA, with centimetre precision. The two partners documented the site using the Tersus M...
The ongoing AI revolution, marked by rapid advances towards artificial general intelligence (AGI), is transforming the way we live and work. This is already having an impact in programming and general...
Advanced Navigation has launched Chimera Land to solve the challenge of maintaining precise vehicle positioning in deep, dark and unmapped GPS-denied underground mining environments. This new 3D laser...
Hyperspectral imaging is taking centre stage in Canada’s space ambitions as NordSpace publicly launches a new venture capital and investment division with a strategic investment in Edmonton-based sp...
At a time when demand for integrated, end-to-end geospatial workflows is accelerating, Revolution Geosystems has acquired Phoenix LiDAR Systems, a recognized innovator in flexible, survey-grade Lidar ...
Geo Week reaffirmed its position as a key commercial meeting point for the geospatial sector as it convened at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver from 16-18 February. The event attracted around ...
Emesent chose Geo Week 2026 in Denver, USA, to launch the Emesent GX1. As an integrated, highly accurate all-in-one mobile scanning system combining simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), Lidar...
From 14-18 September, a coalition of Norwegian government agencies and national institutions will organize Jammertest on the island of Andøya, Norway, for the fifth consecutive year. The annual even...
What if Europe spoke one consistent geographic language? That is the ambition behind EuroCoreReferenceMap, a new pan-European dataset now under development by the national mapping authorities of Franc...
To enable mapping professionals to process sub-centimetre aerial imagery while maintaining processing speed and accuracy, SimActive has introduced full support for the Phase One iXM-FS130 sensor in it...
To protect New Zealand’s coastline, Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) has launched the 3D Coastal Mapping Programme. Over three years, this technically demanding initiative will c...
With ten years of experience in digital data acquisition, Maximilian Reitzel bridges innovation and practice in rail infrastructure as head of construction management at DB Engineering & Consulting, p...