Remote sensing

FINAL ARTICLE IN THE SERIES on Geospatial Processing & Visualization: Ubisense and Harris Geospatial Solutions
August 4, 2017

The line between vendors of geospatial software and providers of geospatial data is increasingly blurred, as more companies...


Satellite Missions Improve Water Estimates
April 28, 2017

Fresh water is humanity’s single most critical resource. According to a recent United Nations report, stresses on water...


Building “Digital Earth”
February 23, 2017

A new generation of geospatial intelligence helps to answer complex geographic questions Paper maps obsolesce rapidly from...


CLIVE: Communicating Risk in 3D
February 21, 2017

Static 3D models of topography and buildings are commonplace in both technical and popular geospatial software. There are still...


Surveying a Mountain Highway with UAS
February 21, 2017

In the steep canyons of the Republic of Macedonia, AKTOR ADT, an international construction company based in Athens, Greece,...


From Selling Pixels to Selling Answers
February 21, 2017

This series of articles began in our Fall 2015 issue by focusing on the impact on vendors and users of geospatial technologies...


Freeing Slaves from the High Seas
February 21, 2017

In May 2015, former slave fisherman Myint Naing, 40, was reunited with his family after 22 years. He was among hundreds of former...


Automating the Mundane
January 19, 2017

You don’t have to work for huge organizations, such as the U.S. Air Force or the U.S. Forest Service, to appreciate the benefits...


A Lidar That Oversamples: Geiger Lidar Imaging
October 10, 2016

Typical linear lidar systems repeatedly fire a single beam, each time measuring a single location on the ground. They collect...


Geospatial Solutions: from PIXIA, Luciad, and BAE Systems
October 10, 2016

This series began a year ago by examining alternatives to Google Earth Enterprise, which Google will stop supporting on March...