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Airborne
08.30.2025

Leveraging InSAR Technology to Optimize Lidar Data Collection

InSAR: an old technology with new applications Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), once limited to specialized research and military reconnaissance, has emerged as…
Mobile
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…
Airborne
08.30.2025

Elevations for the Nations Part III

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

#23 – Helen Fricker

Dr. Helen Fricker is a Professor of Geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, one of the world’s most…
08.15.2025

15th Session of the Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM), New York, 6-8 August 2025

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

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…
Terrestrial
07.31.2025

Historic Preservation Meets Digital Archaeology in the Jungles of Guatemala

3D scan data can do more than just help with historic preservation—it can also act as a record of history and archaeology. In…
07.17.2025

#22 – Angus Pacala

Angus Pacala is CEO and co-founder of Ouster, a major lidar supplier based in San Francisco. The company made headlines in 2023 when…
07.15.2025

Hexagon LIVE Global, Las Vegas, 16-19 June 2025: A Retrospective Part 1 of 4

The first user group meeting I organized was for Kern DSR users in the UK, held in York, England in 1987 (DSRs were…
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