The geospatial mapping sector is experiencing a period of significant technological evolution, propelled by breakthroughs in advanced sensors, sophisticated processing software, increased automation,…
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02.16.2026
Charting a Sea of Change in Valdez
Editor’s note: See the companion video, Charting Change: Geospatial Insights for a Safer Valdez The City of Valdez, Alaska, partnered with NOAA to…
02.16.2026
Topobathymetric Lidar for River Mapping: A Complementary Solution
YellowScan sensor facilitates modeling river channels and floodplains Mapping major and minor riverbeds, particularly for river mobility studies, requires various cartographic methods. Topographic…
02.16.2026
A Geodesist’s Guide to Joining Land and Sea Datasets
Bridging the gap between terrestrial and marine elevation data
Topobathymetric lidar, a laser-based system that captures both land topography and shallow-water bathymetry, represents a significant leap in coastal mapping. When conditions are…
02.16.2026
Content Ecosystem Partnerships Enable a Nationwide, High-Resolution Elevation Model of South Africa
GeoSpace International teams with Hexagon and RiskSpace to create DSMs and DTMs for all South Africa; imagery preferred to lidar for project area…
02.16.2026
BuildingWorld: A Global Structured 3D Building Dataset for Urban Foundation Models
New dataset, available free of charge to researchers, includes five million LoD2 buildings spread over five continents, as well as Cyber City, a…
02.16.2026
RoyOMartin’s High-Tech Forestry Approach Poised to Meet America’s Housing Crisis
A century-old family business like RoyOMartin survives and succeeds by recognizing risks and opportunities. Today, as the US faces a critical housing shortage,…
12.28.2025
Five Keys to Faster, Smarter Disaster Response Mapping
A field-tested framework for accelerating disaster response
Natural disasters in the United States are occurring more often and hitting harder. The number of weather events causing at least $1 billion…
12.28.2025
Digitally Securing the Future: Speed and Precision for School Mapping
Fenstermaker, Lafayette 911, and Navigation Electronics used GeoCue’s TrueView GO to map every school in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, room by room, for faster,…
12.28.2025
Towards Understanding the New Three-Dimensional Accuracy of the ASPRS Accuracy Standards
With the geospatial industry increasingly moving towards three-dimensional GIS and true three-dimensional representation of terrain and infrastructure…
