On 28 April I attended a virtual meeting, more than three hours long, of the NOAA Hydrographic Services Review Panel (HSRP). Members were…
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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…
03.11.2020
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit
USC Hosts Annual Showcase
On 28 February, I braved LA traffic to attend the Los Angeles Geospatial Summit 2020, a one-day event at the University of Southern…
02.12.2020
Random Points: What Is a 3DiS Anyway?
I really think it is time, particularly in the small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) mapping arena, to make high accuracy colorized 3D point…
