InSAR: an old technology with new applications Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), once limited to specialized research and military reconnaissance, has emerged as…
Category: Feature
08.30.2025
Breaking Through: Integrating Mobile Mapping and Ground-Penetrating Radar for Better Infrastructure Intelligence
Three use cases demonstrate how combining mobile and subsurface mapping technology produces comprehensive 3D digital twins to document utility and transportation infrastructure. For…
08.30.2025
Elevations for the Nations Part III
Understanding Europe’s varied approach to lidar mapping
Mapping activities for the United States are centrally regulated for a land area of 3.8 million square miles, whereas lidar coverage of Europe’s…
08.15.2025
15th Session of the Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM), New York, 6-8 August 2025
Progress on several fronts by annual international policy forum
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…
08.13.2025
Magna Mappa
Historic downtown, favored on film, gets a digital twin to promote revitalization
A Utah copper boomtown—now used as a classic Americana setting for film and television—is getting a tech-driven makeover to preserve and revitalize its…
08.05.2025
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…
07.31.2025
Historic Preservation Meets Digital Archaeology in the Jungles of Guatemala
Revisiting a Mayan Digital Twin
3D scan data can do more than just help with historic preservation—it can also act as a record of history and archaeology. In…
07.15.2025
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…
06.30.2025
The Multi-Faceted Evolution of Multibeam Sonar
Expanding reach through ease of use
While multibeam sonar solutions have become an essential piece of seafloor and underwater mapping, the application of this technology has been somewhat limited….
06.30.2025
Overview of the ASPRS Positional Accuracy Standards for Digital Geospatial Data
Edition 2, Version 2 (2024)
The global geospatial community relies on ASPRS when it comes to education and standardization…
