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
A Modular Approach to Democratizing LiDAR Data Capture: A Chat with Balko Technologies’ Johnathan Smeh
One of the most defining moments of Johnathan Smeh’s 10-year reality capture career was when he watched his drone fly…
Bryn Fosburgh on AI Hype, Hallucinations and the Importance of Human Intervention
Bryn Fosburgh likes to describe himself as a “simple Wisconsin boy”, but his achievements, experience, and knowledge over his 40-year…
From the Ground Up: Karina Delcourt discusses the relationship between reality capture and construction
As entrenched as Karina Delcourt is in her belief in the benefits of reality capture (RC), it can’t be easy…
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…
