Role of Geospatial Systems in Making City Utilities Efficient and Cost-effective


Geospatial systems, in convergence with modern ICT, can help city utilities become efficient, consumer-friendly and cost effective…
GPS/GNSS Corrections: The Right One for Your Needs


Positioning and correction services improve default results — from meters to centimeters — enabling growing markets for high precision applications. Which should you use for your specific needs?…
Scanning to Support Management of Affordable Housing


How a Danish surveying consultancy used high precision scanning to support 3D modelling of thousands of affordable housing units. The 3D models are used by a property management…
GIS to Optimize Land Use


To tide over the current economic crisis, the Government of India has taken a slew of policy decisions, including using GIS to streamline land management and dealings, an initiative that can yield handsome returns…
New Satellite Technology to Track Dark Ships


Rogue vessels often operate with their Automatic Identification System switched off. When AIS is not able to supply enough knowledge, other data sources are critical for developing comprehensive maritime awareness…
Building Resilient Future for PNT


The position, navigation and timing (PNT) services provided by GNSS infrastructure go well beyond the maps on our phones; they are integrated into the very fabric of our digital world…
Transforming Healthcare with Geospatial and AI


Machine Learning and data mining aided by high powered computing form the foundation of GeoAI, with geospatial science also offering the tools and technologies that…
The China Way: Use of Technology to Combat COVID-19


By mustering resources at its disposal and deploying the latest technology, China has mitigated the effects of COVID-19 to a significant extent and profiled people…
Pandemic: Geospatial Technology can Help in Prevention, Control and Protection


In case of a disease outbreak, efficient use of geospatial data and mapping technologies can help in both containing and responding to crisis, and the…
What are Various Technologies to Map Subsurface Infrastructure?


Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), Electromagnetic Location (EML) and Building Information Modelling (BIM) are being extensively used to geolocate below the surface utility networks and hidden…