Category Archives: Spatial IT/GIS

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,...

The Growing Role of Geospatial Technology in High-Speed Connectivity for All

How mobile mapping is providing a reality capture solution for an ambitious fiber-to-the-home initiative in Ontario, Canada Investments in fiber-to-the-home or FTTH support digital equity to provide new economic, education, and public health opportunities in rural and remote areas. They also present a potential growth market for surveying companies and utilities service providers as countries...