Aerial photography

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...


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...


A State Gets Smart: SmarterBetterCities
February 21, 2017

To help formulate a 10-year strategic capital investment plan for the State of Oregon, the state’s Chief Financial Office...


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...


Capturing the Bluestone Dam
February 21, 2017

The Bluestone Damon the New River in West Virginia was completed in 1952. It’s 165 feet high above the stream bed and about...


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,...


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...


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...


LiDAR, GIS and the Chesapeake Conservancy: Precision Conservation
June 2, 2016

Building on the practice of precision agriculture and exploiting recent computer advances, the Chesapeake Conservancy (CC)...


Companies Pick Up Where Google Earth Enterprise Leaves off
May 16, 2016

The waves created by Google’s announcement that it will stop supporting Google Earth Enterprise (GEE) in the spring of 2017...