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…
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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…
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…
12.28.2025
Lidar is Setting a New Standard for Protecting Energy Grids and Other Critical Infrastructure
For energy providers, transformer substations are an integral component of the energy grid, securely and reliably transmitting electricity to homes, businesses, schools, hospitals,…
12.28.2025
Airborne Lidar: A Tutorial for 2025
Part IV: UAV-Lidar
In recent years, both the miniaturization of sensors and advances in remote-controlled aerial platform technology have enabled the integration of scanning lidar instruments into unmanned aerial vehicles…
11.10.2025
A Lidar Professional’s Roadmap to a Successful ArcGIS Migration
Migrating to ArcGIS is a strategic necessity for today’s lidar professionals. Esri’s older platforms are being retired, and remaining on legacy systems risks…
