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RFID Crazy: RFID-enabled infrastructure marking could become a cornerstone for a connected infrastructure management world.
March 19, 2019

Imagine if all public works engineers and utility company crew chiefs were equipped with a mobile device that could easily...


Aerial Self-sufficiency
March 5, 2019

A large risk-assessment and data-analytics company created its own internal system to collect imagery, write software, and develop...


Standalone UAV Lidar
March 5, 2019

A surveying company developed a self-contained UAV lidar system so teams could gather data without a lidar specialist. Some...


Street Views of the Water
November 6, 2018

Mapping rivers above and below the surface creates great opportunity for engineers and stewards. The way maps are produced...


After the Storm
November 6, 2018

Post-hurricane coastal mapping is a complex process made easier with airborne bathymetry. Lately, large storms such as hurricanes,...


Not Everything Requires High Accuracies
November 6, 2018

How feature inspection, assessment, and reporting are now available to non-experts (and experts alike). In the early 2000s,...


Where the Data Comes From
November 6, 2018

Members of Esri’s Living Atlas unit detail the company’s wide variety of data sources. For nearly 50 years, Esri has been...


Freeing the Data
November 6, 2018

A Canadian software company is making it easy for the geospatial community (and beyond) to work with, exchange, and extract...


Radiant.Earth
November 6, 2018

Nonprofits working on global development issues have had great difficulty acquiring and using a staple source of geospatial...


Easing the 3D Workflow
February 19, 2018

For 30 years, an Alaska-based company has been producing digital mapping and photogrammetic software to help automate the complex...