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 ...

What do environmental management, urban planning, public health and civil engineering all have in common? They use geospatial information science and technology to make important decisions. Geospatial ...

Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) have transformed the way we capture, store, and analyse spatial data by integrating methods from computer science, statistics and geography. Central to GIS is the ...

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.

According to Deloitte, more than 1,170 Earth observation satellites are currently in orbit, and 51% of them have been launched since 2019. Thanks to massive advances in satellites as they monitor ...

In my August 2025 GPS World newsletter column, I highlighted that a colleague reminded me that the National Geodetic Survey’s (NGS) new National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) is more than a ...

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 ...

As the fierce and dangerous coronavirus pandemic leaves a deadly trail behind, it also reveals significant and concerning gaps in official statistics and data. Through it all, individuals from ...