Mobile Mapping

Aerial mapping company Bluesky International has added Edinburgh and Glasgow to its growing coverage of MetroVista 3D city models. Acquired using an advanced aerial sensor that simultaneously captures...

The coming years look promising for the geomatics sector, but the new generation of professionals must be prepared to face the challenges ahead. In view of the looming labour shortage in the surveying...

Besides the surveying hardware & software and the intricacies of BIM and data exchange, this article explores broader aspects of digitalization in the construction industry. How are they affecting the...

NavVis and HERE Technologies have decided to join forces to bring high-definition indoor mapping and visual positioning to parking garage operators and transportation hubs. NavVis is known for its inn...

Emesent, an Australian autonomous mapping and data analytics startup, is ready to execute its ambitious global expansion plans after closing an oversubscribed US$23 million Series A round. The raise w...

In this interview, Ron Bisio, senior vice president of Trimble Geospatial, provides his views on the key market trends, technology drivers and challenges, and the impacts of COVID-19 and climate chang...

What is the current state of acceptance of mobile mapping, and what are its most common applications? A worldwide survey commissioned by NavVis, and supported by 'GIM International' plus three other ...

Applanix, a Trimble company, has announced the Trimble AP+ Land GNSS-inertial OEM solution for accurate and robust position and orientation for georeferencing sensors and positioning vehicles in land ...

Land Info Worldwide Mapping recently completed up-to-date 10m-resolution thematic raster GIS data covering all 50 US states. Optimized for low-band (broad-area coverage) 5G wireless planning, the dat...

How is the geospatial industry evolving in today’s turbulent times? The climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, shifting geopolitical balances – societal challenges are having a major impact on the...

By applying Beidou technology, ComNav Technology has yielded fruitful results in African land mapping, continuous operating reference station (CORS) construction, precision agriculture and other field...

RIEGL has recently released its software suite for processing kinematic Lidar data: RiPROCESS 1.9.2. The software and the associated tools provide additional benefits for processing RIEGL kinematic la...

European Space Imaging and Space Imaging Middle East have extended their long-standing partnership with Maxar Technologies to continue acquiring and supplying very high resolution satellite imagery to...

Airborne photogrammetry has been around for more than a hundred years. As early as 1851, the French inventor Aimé Laussedat began imagining the possibilities of using the newly invented camera to cap...

'GIM International' invited Bisheng Yang, vice-director of LIESMARS at Wuhan University, to share his thoughts on the present and future of the geospatial industry. Here, he provides his views on the ...