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…
Category: Column
12.30.2024
The Case For (and Against) Propagated Uncertainty in Aerial Topographic Lidar, Continued!
Total Propagated Uncertainty must take into account the relationships between the datums defined by the ground control points and the inertial navigation system,…
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…
09.16.2024
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…
09.16.2024
UN-GGIM 2024
14th session of the UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management
Along with roughly 350 others, I was invited to represent ISPRS at the 14th session of the UN Committee of Experts on Global…
09.16.2024
A Tale of Two GIs
44th Esri International User Conference – bigger, brighter, more thought-provoking than ever
It must seem to many attendees at the Esri International User Conference that it’s an advantage to live in San Diego. Well, it’s…
07.06.2024
ISPRS Symposia Highlights
Morsels from abroad
Who is really writing this? As I embark on another account of my travels, I am acutely aware that readers may be in…
06.18.2024
Rapid Fire: TOPODRONE is Breaking Geospatial Barriers
Alexander Lopukhov is co-founder of TOPODRONE, a Swiss firm at the leading edge of cost-efficient lidar and mobile lidar solutions. A notable example…
05.14.2024
A Tale of Three Meetings
Esri, SDSU/ASPRS and GreenValley host lively events
A perfect, vernal morning on the Berkeley Marina offered stirring views of the Golden Gate Bridge in one direction and the UCB campus…
05.04.2024
A Digital Record
Our cover story is about an archaeological application. Well-known geospatial services company Surdex1 was contracted by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation to acquire lidar…
