When GEO1 interviews potential team members, one of the first questions we ask is how the candidate discovered their passion for the geospatial…
Category: Column
05.18.2020
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…
05.08.2020
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…
04.18.2020
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…
04.16.2020
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….
04.11.2020
Lidar and GIS grow closer together
Riegl RiMAP Add-In smooths the data flow from Lidar scanner to Esri’s ArcGIS Platform
Lidar is a major source of geographic information, yet its voluminous data sets and their characteristics, which are different from those of image…
03.26.2020
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….
03.26.2020
Finding the Value in Our Forests
We’re racking up a huge ecological debt due to mass deforestation. The Earth is losing rainforests at a rate of 30 football fields…
03.26.2020
The Role for Lidar in Lunar Exploration and Beyond
NASA is returning to the Moon with the Artemis Program. By 2024, NASA has been directed to land the first woman and the…
03.26.2020
Accuracy Isn’t One Dimensional
We have built dozens of True View 410 3D imaging Systems (3DiS) for sUAS over the past several months. With each unit, we…
