Every modern map app hides a deeper system underneath, and that system is geospatial data. It is information tied to a location on Earth, usually through latitude and longitude, so software can ...

Top: Devil’s Elbow Trestle Bridge near Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Bottom: A LiDAR scan of the same trestle bridge. (Sgt. 1st Class Andrew French and CW4 Michael Baber) The current state of ...

Geospatial engineering combines principles of engineering, geography, and surveying to collect, analyze, and manage spatial data. Geospatial engineering involves surveying. Over time, the field of ...

A key objective of data governance is to provide information to people with a legitimate need to know and to restrict it from those who do not. While the solution to effective data security is largely ...

Imagine the scene: You’re driving in an unfamiliar city and use Google Maps on your iPhone to get directions to your next meeting. But you don’t just want to know how to get from point A to point B.

Open the Planetary Computer data catalog and you will find all kinds of useful data: from decades’ worth of satellite imagery to biomass maps, from the US Census to fire data. All together, there are ...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced the release of the OGC Features and Geometries JSON (JSON-FG) Standard.

With record-breaking temperatures across the South, smoke from Canadian wildfires across the North, historic flooding in the Northeast and a powerful hurricane in the Southeast, the summer of 2023 has ...

“Data governance policy is a collection of principles, frameworks, programs, roles, and responsibilities that help manage data collection, storage, access, usage, quality, and archival of data assets ...