Between the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss Archives

The Geospatial Commission, an agency of the UK government tasked with extracting more value from government geospatial data, has just released its Annual Plan 2021/2022.  One of its top priorities is developing  to develop a […]

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Guest post by Wade Anderson, Vice President, SMB, IQGeo 5G is predicted to have the same economic impact on the US as commercializing the internet did 25 years ago. The technology is the motor of […]

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Several years ago I blogged previously about an application that used Sentinel-1 radar interferometry to monitor ground displacements with millimetre precision to look for subsidence which might be evidence of a leak in a municipal […]

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Utility locates and relocation work have historically been the cause of construction delays on public construction projects, particularly in urban areas with dense population and the commensurate underground utility and telecom infrastructure.  In recent bills […]

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The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) first introduced the ASCE 38-02 Standard Guidelines for the Collection and Depiction of Existing Subsurface Utility Data in 2002 and it has become the model for many underground […]

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You can see the program for April 30 and register here. Speaker lineup An early innovator in underground utility mapping is Otto Ballintijn, CEO of Reduct which has developed inertial or gyro technology for mapping […]

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We are starting at 10 AM EDT. You can see the program for April 29 and register here. Today’s speaker lineup One of the early innovators in applying LiDAR to mapping underground pipelines, Joseph Hlady, […]

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You can see the program for April 29 and 30 and register here. Speaker lineup One of the early innovators in applying LiDAR to mapping underground pipelines, Joseph Hlady, President at Lux Modus in Calgary, […]

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At the GeoIgnite virtual event Ryan Hamilton, Senior Manager 3D Products, at Maxar described a remarkable project Globe in 3D to create a 3D model for the earth’s entire landmass using the petabytes of 50 […]

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Modern reality capture technology is not only providing a high accuracy alternative to paper as-builts, but is also being used to capture the location of underground utilities and other infrastructure exposed during during excavation or […]

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Canada plans to introduce in 2021 certification that would allow pilots to undertake beyond visual line of site (BVLOS) flights in isolated areas without the need for a waiver. This opens the possibility of more […]

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Without accurate maps of underground infrastructure, every construction project runs a significant risk of schedule and budget overruns and causing injuries and fatalities to workers and the public. Underground utility damage also represents a drag […]

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Digital logistics management is standard practice in manufacturing and is best know for enabling just in time delivery (JIT). Now a company in Scandinavia has applied digital logistics management to construction. Experience in applying this […]

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Increasingly modern reality capture technology is being applied to mapping underground infrastructure.  There are two use cases where LiDAR scanning or photogrammetry can be applied two underground infrastructure. The first is when new utility infrastructure […]

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Technologies such as ground penetrating radar (GPR) or acoustic locating for detecting underground utilities involve directing some type of signal, electromagnetic or acoustic, into the ground and measuring the reflection off underground objects. A major […]

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Open data has been gathering momentum among governments. First enunciated in the United States, the principle that citizens should not be required to pay twice for government data, free and open access to government geospatial […]

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In the last two years quality standards for location quality of underground infrastructure in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Australia have been revised or augmented.  This reflects the accelerating development of new technologies and evolution […]

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The only instance I know of in North America of a province or state wide database that includes maps of utility infrastructure is the Integrated Cadastral Information Society (ICI Society) in British Columbia. The ICI […]

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