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How to Generate a Digital Terrain Model from a LiDAR Point Cloud: Complete Workflow

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How to Generate a Digital Terrain Model from a LiDAR Point Cloud: Complete Workflow May 8, 2025 Digital Terrain Model (DTM) generation  from LiDAR point clouds is a fundamental process in geospatial engineering, supporting applications such as flood modeling, infrastructure planning, environmental monitoring, and terrain analysis. Although the task may seem simple at first glance, it encompasses a sequence of […]

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How We Built Digital Twins That Could Survive Remote Alaska

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How We Built Digital Twins That Could Survive Remote Alaska When you think about energy infrastructure, you might picture dense grids, smart meters, and sprawling cities. But in rural Alaska, keeping the lights on is a different challenge altogether. Communities are separated by hundreds of miles of mountains, tundra, and coastline—accessible only by bush plane, boat, or snow machine. Infrastructure […]

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SurvTech – Celebrating 20 years at the Forefront of Geospatial!

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We are thrilled to announce a significant milestone in our journey – SurvTech Solutions is celebrating its 20th year anniversary! For two decades, we have been at the forefront of the geospatial industry, pioneering innovative solutions and setting new standards of excellence. Since our inception in 2004, SurvTech Solutions has been dedicated to harnessing the power of geospatial technology to […]

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Oregon State University tenure-track faculty position

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Oregon State University tenure-track faculty position Oregon State University is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in geomatics engineering. (All ranks considered). This position will support research and teaching in the general area of geomatics engineering. The incumbent will have demonstrated expertise in one or more of the following areas: advanced geospatial science (e.g., geodesy, global navigation satellite systems, photogrammetry, structure from […]

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Where Are the Professionals?

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Where are the Professionals is a guest article by Curtis Clabaugh. Are the epic battles between the engineering surveying and planning/GIS professions beginning to resurface with emerging technologies fueling the fire?  I believe they are with changes in technology being the driving force. The new tools allowing for the capture of data are likely to bring about changes to all […]

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Bluesky Aerial Photos at Heart of New Met Police Mapping Tool

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Bluesky Aerial Photos at Heart of New Met Police Mapping Tool Leicestershire, UK, 08 February 2024 – High resolution aerial photography from Bluesky International is informing day-to-day decision making, long-term planning and reporting at London’s Metropolitan Police Service. Supplied as part of a multi-million-pound Government mapping contract, the Bluesky imagery is an essential layer in the Met Police’s newly relaunched Met […]

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Introducing Felt 2.0: The Most Powerful Tool for Professional Map Making

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Introducing Felt 2.0: The Most Powerful Tool for Professional Map Making With spatial analysis and web-based collaboration, Felt makes maps easier and more accessible to organizations, empowers better decision-making for GIS professionals November 13, 2023–OAKLAND, Calif.– Felt, the world’s first collaborative mapping tool, today launched Felt 2.0 with powerful data transformation tools that enhance its intuitive and professional platform. Now with spatial analysis […]

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Call For Participation: OGC Geotech…

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Call For Participation: OGC Geotech Interoperability Experiment The Geotech IE will ensure that geotechnical engineering data can seamlessly move between GIS and BIM environments in support of engineering and infrastructure projects. Contact: info@ogc.org  21 January 2022: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has issued a Call for Participation (CFP) to solicit proposals for the OGC Geotech Interoperability Experiment (IE). Proposal submissions close on […]

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OxTS adds GeoNAV to their growing array

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OxTS adds GeoNAV to their growing array of Survey and Mapping Distributors OxTS is delighted to announce that they have added to their growing army of survey and mapping distributors by appointing GeoNAV Satellite systems. GeoNAV satellite systems has over 22 years’ experience in state-of-the-art positioning and navigation systems, and they will provide sales and support services to those looking […]

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January 30th: Geospatial Career & Job Hunting Seminar

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January 30th: Geospatial Career & Job Hunting Seminar Saturday: January 30th, 2021 – 10:am – 2pm (EST time zone) half Day  Online Zoom SeminarPrice: $65.00 per person Register Online These seminars offer practical and proven advice to help you make the most of your geospatial job search. These sessions will be useful to graduating students as well as seasoned professionals. Seminar Topics […]

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Cohesive Companies – Acquisition of PCSG

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The Cohesive Companies Announces the Acquisition of Professional Construction Strategies Group Ltd. (PCSG)  Will expand digital twin advisory services globally and across infrastructure sectors  EXTON, Pa. – October 19, 2020 – The Cohesive Companies, a digital integrator investment of the Acceleration Fund of Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced its acquisition of Professional Construction Strategies […]

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OGC and buildingSMART International publish discussion paper

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OGC and buildingSMART International publish discussion paper on the integration of BIM and GIS New discussion paper aims to coordinate the development of data standards produced by the two leading standards organizations in the fields of Geospatial and Building Information Modeling Contact: info@ogc.org  9 April 2020: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and buildingSMART International (bSI) have released an industry-defining paper as […]

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Terra Drone India partners with Canadian CAD/GIS leader Geo-Plus

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Terra Drone India now offers Geo-Plus Vision suite which includes more than 16 3D measurements, 3D structure, geometry, cadaster, and document management software related to the territories Hyderabad, India – December 3, 2019 – Leading industrial drone solutions provider, Terra Drone India, has announced that it is joining forces with Canada-based geomatics pioneer Geo-Plus. This partnership makes Terra Drone India an official reseller […]

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Golden Software Streamlines Gridding Functionality in Surfer

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Golden Software Streamlines Gridding Functionality in Surfer GOLDEN, Colorado, 3 December 2019 – Golden Software, a developer of affordable 2D and 3D scientific modeling packages, has enhanced Gridding and other key workflows in the latest release of its Surfer® software. Used by 100,000 clients worldwide, Surfer is a gridding, contouring and 3D surface mapping application used in environmental consulting, mining, oil […]

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Bentley Systems – Focus on Infrastructure Engineering for Digital Cities

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Bentley Systems Accelerates Focus on Infrastructure Engineering for Digital Cities   Advancing BIM and GIS through 4D Digital Twins SINGAPORE – The Year in Infrastructure 2019 Conference – 23 October 2019 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twin cloud services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, today presented its new digital cities initiatives, applying digital twins for more efficient city and regional […]

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WEBINAR: USING THE RIGHT DRONES FOR THE RIGHT JOB

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WEBINAR: USING THE RIGHT DRONES FOR THE RIGHT JOB Join Microdrones for their next Wednesday Webinar on April 3, 2019 at 9AM and 6PM EDT and learn how Crafton Tull successfully implemented UAV – based Lidar, condensing their time on site in half and saving over 50% in the process. Crafton Tull is a civil engineering, surveying, architecture, landscape architecture, […]

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The Making of PX-80: the World’s First Handheld LiDAR Scanner with Color Data

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PX-80 Background Paracosm has been at the forefront of SLAM-based 3D-mapping since the company’s founding in 2013. In the ensuing years, they’ve racked up an impressive resume: helping Google develop the dense 3D-mapping engine on the Project Tango smartphone, receiving iRobot’s first corporate VC investment, and most recently being acquired by spatial computing powerhouse Occipital (makers of the Structure Sensor). […]

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Blue Marble Releases Geographic Calculator 2019

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BLUE MARBLE RELEASES GEOGRAPHIC CALCULATOR 2019 WITH UPDATED GEODETIC DATASOURCE AND NUMEROUS WORKFLOW IMPROVEMENTS Hallowell, Maine – December 9, 2018 – Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2019 release of Geographic Calculator. Over its twenty-five year history, this powerful geodetic software has set the standard for accurate coordinate and datum management and has […]

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Geographic Intelligence – Latest Release of the Global Mapper SDK

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Add Geographic Intelligence to your Software Projects with the Latest Release of the Global Mapper SDK Hallowell, Maine – November 27, 2018 – Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 20 of the Global Mapper Software Development Kit (SDK) along with the accompanying LiDAR Module SDK. Mirroring the most important capabilities of the desktop […]

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