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…
Author: Dr. A. Stewart Walker
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…

