Tag Archives: geospatial
Chris Lyons – 2025 Young Geospatial Professional
Company: Kentucky Energy and Environment CabinetCurrent position: Geoprocessing Specialist IIIAge: 30Education: MS Environmental Studies, Kentucky State University; BS Agriculture, Food, and Environment, Kentucky State University Lyons is a geoprocessing specialist at the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, where he has spearheaded initiatives across the GIS spectrum, from geospatial data management and enterprise geodatabase maintenance to...
Kaitlin Constantine- 2025 Young Geospatial Professional
Company: DOWLCurrent position: Professional Land SurveyorAge: 29 Education: BS civil engineering, University of Nevada-Reno; BS Geomatics, Great Basin College Constantine is the youngest licensed surveyor in Nevada. After getting her degree in 2018, she began working in land development. She was recruited into a survey department where she excelled and found her stride. This spurred on...
Nour Hussein – 2025 Young Geospatial Professional
Company: Exyn TechnologiesCurrent position: Senior Robotics Software EngineerAge: 28 Education: MS robotics, BS computer and Information science, University of Pennsylvania Hussein is responsible for ensuring the Exyn Nexys mobile mapping solution is capable of collecting the most accurate data possible to inform the mapping and autonomy pipelines. In short, she helps ensure the company’s robots can...
Olamiposi Fagunloye – 2025 Young Geospatial Professional
Company: Georgia State University Current position: Graduate Research and Teaching AssistantAge: 26 Education: BS geoscience information system and remoting sensing, Federal University of Technology Akure; MS geological and earth sciences/geosciences, Georgia State University Fagunloye is a graduate research and teaching assistant at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He also worked as an ESG/sustainability intern at the Wylde...
Founders of Atlas – 2025 Young Geospatial Professionals
Harald Rieber, Fredrik Moger, Marius Hofgaard, and Vegard J. Løwe Company: AtlasCurrent position: FoundersAge: 20-something Education: All three graduated from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology GIS can now be considered a legacy product, but these guys are trying to make it cool again by promoting browser-based map-making with their Atlas platform. This is a...
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...
