During my editorship, I have attempted to provide readers with material not only on lidar, but also on other active sensors, such as…
Author: Dr. A. Stewart Walker
09.03.2025
Book Review: GeoAI: Artificial Intelligence in GIS
GeoAI: Artificial Intelligence in GIS. Edited by Ismael Chivite, Nicholas Giner and Matt Artz. Esri Press, Redlands, California, 2025. 204 x 139 mm,…
08.15.2025
15th Session of the Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM), New York, 6-8 August 2025
Progress on several fronts by annual international policy forum
UN-GGIM meets annually at United Nations headquarters in New York. It’s very formulaic, i.e. three days of deliberations, preceded by two days of…
08.05.2025
Esri International User Conference, San Diego, 14-18 July 2025: A Retrospective
With GIS we can repair our planet – or are we just preaching to the choir? The 45th Esri International User Conference took…
07.23.2025
Hexagon LIVE Global 2025, Las Vegas, 16-19 June 2025: A Retrospective Part 4
Geospatial behemoth delivers innovations and updates in fine setting – ground-penetrating radar
LIDAR Magazine, unsurprisingly, is focused on lidar, but we like to publish about other active sensors too. We have tried for some years…
07.23.2025
Hexagon LIVE Global 2025, Las Vegas, 16-19 June 2025: A Retrospective Part 3
Geospatial behemoth delivers innovations and updates in fine setting – lidar security
In my pursuit of lidar goings-on at Hexagon LIVE Global 2025, and thanks to my hosts Hexagon and WeAreTFD, I interviewed Radek Zachoval,…
07.23.2025
Hexagon LIVE Global 2025, Las Vegas, 16-19 June 2025: A Retrospective Part 2
Geospatial behemoth delivers innovations and updates in fine setting – the airborne sensors
We lidar people must remember that a Hexagon user event is much broader than it used to be. There’s far more than surveying…
07.15.2025
Hexagon LIVE Global, Las Vegas, 16-19 June 2025: A Retrospective Part 1 of 4
Geospatial behemoth delivers innovations and updates in fine setting – the big picture
The first user group meeting I organized was for Kern DSR users in the UK, held in York, England in 1987 (DSRs were…
06.30.2025
All Along the Pipeline
Earlier this spring, I had the good fortune of attending the 59th Photogrammetric Week in Stuttgart1. Spectacular in every sense of the word,…
06.30.2025
25¢ Piano Lessons
Published by David F. Maune, PhD, Colonel (Ret.), Alexandria, Virginia, 2024 229 x 153 mm, x + 294 pp, numerous color and black…
