Aerial imagery, lidar and GIS help decision-making on the planting of trees for maximum environmental improvement, financed by grant funds from USDA Forest…
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04.28.2026
Main Street Revival: Planners Turn to Interactive Maps to Renew City Centers
Downtown failure can be avoided by careful planning undergirded by GIS Main Street once defined the American city. Tight rows of busy storefronts,…
02.16.2026
Mapping the Future: Critical Geospatial Trends for 2026
The geospatial mapping sector is experiencing a period of significant technological evolution, propelled by breakthroughs in advanced sensors, sophisticated processing software, increased automation,…
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
Building South Africa’s Nationwide, High-Resolution Elevation Model
GeoSpace International teams with Hexagon and Riskscape to create DSMs and DTMs for all South Africa, using photogrammetry for a project area of…
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…
