LiDAR Update: Terrestrial Explodes, Software Still Lags
January 25, 2011

Looking at the image of the underside of a bridge derived from data collected by a boat-mounted LiDAR system, engineers can detect...

STI’s Two Recent Projects: Aerial Surveying at Airports
January 14, 2011

Société Topographie Informatique (STI) -- based in Evry, near Paris, France -- specializes in topography, photogrammetry,...

Helping Haiti: Disaster-Response Lab Manages Aerial Data for Earthquake Relief
October 1, 2010

In the immediate aftermath of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on 2010 January 12, taking the lives of more than...

Aerial Cameras: Focus Shifts to Productivity
October 1, 2010

Every aerial or satellite image you see on Google Earth, on The Weather Channel, or in the pages of this magazine was taken...

RADAR Gets It Done
June 1, 2010

Has anyone driven over certain desert dunes in Afghanistan during the past few hours? Is a ship on the high seas fishing...

Joel Campbell: Harnessing the Information of our Changing Earth (and Industry)
June 1, 2010

With over 20 years of experience in the geospatial industry, Joel Campbell is a well known and highly regarded speaker, lecturer...

Rapid Response Mapping at Sanborn: Mapping Against the Clock
April 1, 2010

Early one morning in December 2005, the Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Plant Upper Reservoir, in the Missouri Ozarks, failed catastrophically,...

Beyond Terrain Models: LiDAR Enters the Geospatial Mainstream
February 1, 2010

First used by NASA in the mid-1980s, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has become an essential complement to photogrammetry...