Monday 2 November saw the opening session of RS Fire 2020: The Remote Sensing & Wildland Fire Symposium Series, an event run by…
Category: From the Editor
Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness
It seems to have been an interminable summer, followed by a prolonged Fall. The political situation in several countries has hit severe turbulence….
More gems from lidar online events
Fall 2020 LiDAR Workshop and more
I’ve written before, on this site, as well as in the print editions, about the stream of rich content that has become available…
Intellectual Journeys
2020 Goes Virtual
We continue to stay home as much as possible and view with apprehension covid-19’s ravages across our country. Nevertheless, we can consume a…
Keep the Home Fires Burning
Many of us continue on lock-down, while the wait for definitive good news seems interminable. Some localities and non-essential sectors of the economy…
This Won’t Be the LASt time…
The workings of international standards
Is it really 55 years since the Stones released the song whose title I have massacred above? Following my recent scribbles on the…
HSRP suggests bright future for bathymetric/topographic lidar
Qassim Abdullah gets his feet wet
On 28 April I attended a virtual meeting, more than three hours long, of the NOAA Hydrographic Services Review Panel (HSRP). Members were…
Abroad thoughts from home
I hope Robert Browning will forgive me mutilating his title, but at least it is April and many of us are yearning to…
Emeritus Professor Gordon Petrie
Eminent teacher and researcher of photogrammetry and lidar passes
It is with great sadness I report the death of my mentor and professor, Gordon Petrie, on 4 April 2020, in Glasgow, Scotland….
To Have and to Hold
Geo Week 2020 Postponed
Our March/April edition has much to do with the Geo Week 2020 series of conferences, originally slated for March 22-26 in Washington D.C….