Feature articles

Recording, Registration, and Cadastres
September 18, 2017

An accurate and up-to-date record of property boundaries is essential for administering property taxes, enforcing environmental...


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...


Shifting Ground: USGS on Earth Movement after an Earthquake
June 29, 2017

Ken Hudnut, science advisor for risk reduction, US Geological Survey, talks GPS and earthquakes Editor’s note: In many...


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...


Neutrino Beam! Scanning a Ring Tunnel
April 17, 2017

The surveying challenges for construction related to a particle accelerator are exacting—but surprisingly familiar. Trillions...


Imagery Companies Become Information Companies
April 12, 2017

New analytics and the cloud benefit customers using the ultimate big data: imagery In the past few years, the number of space-based...


Cadasta: Mapping Land Rights from the Bottom Up
April 12, 2017

Cadasta helps put people on the map with a cloud-based platform for land-ownership data. In advanced industrial countries...


Project Management, Collaboration, the Cloud, and Robots!
April 12, 2017

Trimble launches a new solution for construction project management– and takes a futuristic leap into autonomous construction...


GNSS Mission: Accomplished
April 12, 2017

Editor’s note: So rarely do new major players arise in the high-precision GNSS industry that we feel the following to be a significant...


Building “Digital Earth”
February 23, 2017

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