Mary Jo Wagner

Mary Jo Wagner is a Vancouver-based freelance writer with 30 years experience in covering geospatial technology. I’m the former editor of GEOEurope magazine (now Geo:connexion). I have three decades of experience in covering the geospatial technologies, including mobile mapping, GIS, satellite imagery, aerial surveying, hyperspectral thermal imaging, GNSS, drones, surveying, object based image analysis (OBIA) software, LiDAR, photogrammetry and laser scanning. And I’ve written about a host of sectors including AEC, navigation and transport, agriculture, aviation, telecoms, utilities, local government, retail, archeology, urban planning, mining, and the environment.

Articles by Mary Jo Wagner

Where reality capture's been, where it is today and where it’s headed, from a 20-year veteran

Where reality capture’s been, where it is today and where it’s headed, from a 20-year veteran

  For a man who was not that enthusiastic about reality capture 20 years ago, Jesús Bonet, survey engineer and…

GoGeomatics Expo Puts Canada on the Geospatial Map

In the words of Will Cadell, “Geospatial is changing everything.” That was not only one of the opening lines of…

In the Red: Thermal Imagery Helps Reveal Building Heat Loss

Dr. Geoffrey Hay envisioned a solution for an invisible problem in a few milliseconds. Hay, a GIScience professor at the…