Business Guide / Digital Twins Our traditional annual Business Guide forms a vital resource for geomatics professionals. With in-depth articles and interviews, it reflects on geospatial trends and explores the business outlook for the industry....

The rugged 22.5-acre site of the notorious US island prison Alcatraz has been digitally captured in a world-leading project involving multiple mapping technologies. With the team camped in the jail’s infamous cells for three weeks during the cold San Francisco winter, this historically, biologically and architecturally important location was recorded in unprecedented 3D detail. We discussed the project with project head Pete Kelsey and team member Dr Jeremy Sofonia. The rugged 22.5-acre site of the notorious US island prison Alcatraz has been digitally captured in a world-leading project involving multiple mapping technologies. With the team camped in the jail’s infamous cells...

The German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) is creating a digital twin of the whole of Germany that can be used to simulate various future scenarios in order...

An unprecedented scientific effort to Lidar-scan the entire surface of the Earth before it’s too late... that’s how Christopher Fisher, the founder of the Earth Archive, describes his initiative. He...

3D visualization is at the heart of many geospatial data applications. Progress in 3D visualization has drastically reduced barriers to entry for new products based on large datasets, thanks to...

Sokkia is releasing a new digital theodolite series, the DT220, DT520, DT520A and DT620, with as a main distinguishing feature an improved power-saving technology. The DT620, recently set a world...

FARO Technologies has announced the acquisition of HoloBuilder and its leading photogrammetry-based 3D platform which delivers hardware-agnostic image capture, registration and viewing to the fast-growing digital twin market. FARO Technologies...

Maxar Technologies and blackshark.ai have collaborated to develop SYNTH3D, a synthetic 3D digital twin of the Earth's surface that is highly compatible and visually pleasing for use in gaming, simulation,...

Today’s digital revolution is leading to a huge amount of geospatial data. A digital twin is a digital, three-dimensional copy of a real-life environment – e.g. a city, building, railway...

Vodafone has partnered with Esri to create a digital twin of its network of mobile masts. This will enable real-time monitoring of the network, helping to ensure the best possible...