Tag Archives: remote sensing
Adailin Lebron Bengochea
23 Young Geospatial Professionals to Watch in 2023 – 14 of 23 Name: Adailin Lebron BengocheaCompany: City of Grapevine, TexasCurrent position: GIS Engineering SpecialistAge: 33 Education: MA Geo in GIS, Texas State University; BS in Geography and Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin Although Bengochea has always enjoyed a good map and navigating atlases...
Sri Krishna Murthy Hari
23 Young Geospatial Professionals to Watch in 2023 – 12 of 23 Name: Sri Krishna Murthy HariCompany: Beans.ai Current position: Head of GISAge: 32 Education: MS Integrated Geospatial Sciences, Michigan Technological University Krishna leads the GIS teams in building detailed 3D maps and indoor routing datasets for essentially all the addresses in the...
Encoding Geography: Scale Up to Keep Up
America’s foremost community of professional geographers wants all students, especially women and minorities, to have a head start in geocomputational abilities. A revolution in teaching geography is in the offing. Demand for professionals with geospatial skills is on the rise. In 2019, expertise in geospatial technology was listed by Upwork, a global job website, as...
New Digital World Needs Data
Next-generation surveyors require specialized education and training to fill the role of geospatial data specialists. Many emerging geospatial applications, such as digital twins, 3D modeling, monitoring, virtual reality, and autonomous vehicles, are based on big digital datasets. Building a 3D digital world starts with accurate data that ties to a point on the ground, so...
Geospatial Excellence
MAPPS recognizes the best geospatial projects of the year At its winter conference in Denver, MAPPS presented the annual Geospatial Excellence Awards to member firms whose entries exemplify the professionalism, value, integrity, and achievement of the firm’s staff as demonstrated over the previous year. The awards spotlight and honor the MAPPS members’ important and impactful...
When a Drone Just Can’t Do It
There is a growing ebb in the tide of UAS adoption for aerial surveying, mapping, and remote sensing—finding the right balance between manned and unmanned aerial operations Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS), or just plain old “drones”—call them whatever you wish—have had a tremendous impact on geospatial industries. A decade ago,...
