The first user group meeting I organized was for Kern DSR users in the UK, held in York, England in 1987 (DSRs were…
Author: Dr. A. Stewart Walker
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…
05.27.2025
59th Photogrammetric Week, Stuttgart, 1-4 April 2025
Standard of presentations hits new high
Readers of this journal know the Photogrammetric Week (Photogrammetrische Woche – PhoWo) and its 116-year history (Fritsch, 2005). The 59th one attracted 212…
02.27.2025
Biggest Geo Week Ever
A milestone event for geospatial technologies
Denver provided a bitterly cold destination for Geo Week on 10-12 February 2025. Lows as curmudgeonly as 5°F (-15°C) were insufferable for those…
02.10.2025
Celebrating Lidar Worldwide
This issue was released at the Geo Week conference in Denver on 10–12 February. By no coincidence, this year’s event concludes on World…
12.30.2024
Lidar is Everywhere!
We’ve packed this edition, our annual Airborne Technology Showcase, with five feature articles that illustrate lidar’s growing capabilities—perhaps more importantly, how it has…
09.22.2024
Sensor Integration Celebration
Considerate of this edition’s wide-scale distribution at Intergeo 2024, held in Stuttgart, Germany on 24-26 September, we have endeavored to imbue the following…
09.22.2024
Vexcel Imaging Enters the Lidar Market
Raptors portfolio enhanced by all-Austrian hybrid while popular industry veteran Michael Gruber retires
Recent Vexcel Imaging announcements Vexcel Imaging, headquartered in the beautiful city of Graz in Austria, is familiar to most readers. Its high-performance aerial…
09.16.2024
An empty plinth
Ron Roth departs Leica Geosystems/Hexagon
After shepherding nine generations of airborne topographic lidar systems, three generations of hybrid imaging/lidar and one airborne imaging sensor, Ron Roth has departed…
