Intermap has won a US$20 million contract to map the Indonesian island of Sulawesi this year. The contract is the first phase of the Indonesian national topographic basemap programme to...

There are indications that today’s technological advances are putting a fully operational multipurpose cadastre within reach, following decades of a global vision and small-scale progress towards a comprehensive map-centric land...

Stonex has launched a new SLAM solution for fast and efficient large-area surveys: the X70GO SLAM laser scanner. It combines mobile scanning with a stationary mode to scan with higher...

A dense annotated ground-truth Lidar dataset of the city of Dublin is the first of its kind regarding the accuracy, density and diversity of classes. The hierarchical labels offer excellent...

Virtual Surveyor has enhanced the Lidar elevation data handling capabilities in version 6.4 of its drone surveying and mapping software. The function enables users to select specific feature classes from...

YellowScan, the UAV Lidar Solutions provider, has announced the release of CloudStation, its new software providing a complete solution to create and manipulate point cloud data. It allows the user...

Vercator Desktop software is developed by Correvate, a UCL spin-out company whose vision is to improve geospatial understanding by delivering unrivalled 3D point cloud data processing. The new software delivers...

In a paper released on arXiv, Apple engineers Yin Zhou and Oncel Tuzel have detailed an end-to-end deep neural network solution for accurate feature recognition in point clouds. One way we...

Arithmetica, the company behind Pointfuse point cloud conversion software, has announced it will be releasing Pointfuse V3 on 18 September 2017. Offering a new approach to the processing of point...

Global reference systems such as the International Terrestrial Reference Frame provide the foundation for determining positions on Earth and in space, as well as for reliably quantifying our planet’s changes...