At GeoBusiness 2017 in London, Hugh Boyes, a Cyber Security specialist outlined some of the security risks of digital engineering and the importance of cybersecurity for engineering projects. BIM models, floorplans and 3D LiDAR scans […]
A bill has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that specifically targets open access to geospatial information. It intends to do this by nullifying a regulation under the Civil Rights Act of 1968 […]
Back in 2006 Autodesk was the leading sponsor supporting the formation of the Open Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) in order to open geospatial technology to a wider audience. Now Bentley Systems has joined with AGI to […]
Currently geospatial data and technology are used tactically by electric power utilities for many purposes including outage management, vegetation management, disaster management, renewable energy facility siting, universal electrification planning, asset management, and energy density mapping, […]
Some countries including Indonesia have passed legislation regulating geospatial data. The intention appears to be to ensure a certain level of quality in geospatial data provided by private data providers to the public. For example, […]
Gartner’s latest hype cycle identifies a new trend “citizen data science” that has important implications for the geospatial sector. At the recent Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG) Ottawa Branch Workshop on Big Data: What is […]
DigitalGlobe owns and operates a constellation of commercial earth observation satellites. The latest is Worldview-3 which is capable of about 30 cm precision. Digital Globe’s satellites collect 3,000,000 square kilometers of Earth imagery every day, […]
At the Year in Infrastructure conference in London in the Utilities breakout session I was invited to participate in an industry panel discussion on “Repair, Rehab, and Replacement of Aging Infrastructure“. The two panelists I […]