Category Archives: Spatial IT/GIS

The Future of Geospatial Data Demands a New Approach to Management

Geospatial data serves as the foundation for many mission-critical and time-sensitive applications, including Earth observation, location-based services, defense, population health, and more. However, geospatial data is not just one thing and can be quite heterogeneous, coming in many different forms including point clouds (e.g., lidar and sonar); polygons (e.g. buildings and areas of interest), and...

Signed, Sealed, and Delivered

From GIS to satellite remote sensing and street-level imaging, the latest geospatial technologies are behind every successful delivery, down to the very last mile.

This is GIS

As the leading professional organization for GIS professionals, URISA has long supported climate and community resilience efforts. The association has delivered 20 years of GIS emergency management and response and resilience efforts across the globe through GISCorps, to leading development and supporting sustainability and community resilience data efforts, conference sessions, training, and workshops and with...

Geospatial Tech Reaches the Olympics

 Are you watching the most important global sporting event this month in Paris? Then expect not only the world’s best athletes competing for the podium, but also the best of GIS and Digital Twin technologies applied in a sporting event at a grand scale. British company OnePlan is the official digital twin and mapping partner...

Shining a Light Into Black Boxes

AI-infused 3D modeling of substations, pump houses, and other facilities offers utilities immediate benefit By Ben Dwinal Using advanced GIS systems, utilities can create detailed infrastructure models that enable them to deliver services to residents more efficiently and safely. These models include highly granular data about the networks of lines and pipes that deliver electricity,...