Mapping and cartography

Comparing Maps a New Way
February 21, 2017

The positional accuracy of geospatial technologies has improved dramatically in the past few decades, and digital maps have...


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,...


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...


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...


Custom, Portable Maps — Via App!
December 12, 2016

Avenza has evolved its map products into an app that lets people upload their own map—or download a map of their choice—to...


3D Software, Not Really Like CAD at All
December 1, 2016

Editor’s note: For many firms and practitioners of surveying, photogrammetry, mapping, and remote sensing, traditional...


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...