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 ...

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 ...

But beyond government, the best results happen when governments, industry and academia all work together as a geospatial ...

Don Murray is cofounder of Safe Software and has spent his career helping organizations bring life to data to make better decisions. The world we live in is spatial. Think about how many times you use ...

Geospatial data has the potential to revolutionize investment decision-making by providing investors with insights into the spatial dynamics of different markets and assets. Traditional data can be ...

W&M’s Center for Geospatial Analysis recently brought Peter Bol, professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Director of the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard, to campus. Bol’s ...

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 ...

Africa’s geospatial sector surged in 2025, blending AI and digital twins to drive smarter cities and data-driven resilience.

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 ...

After the plenary of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) in June, the global space community typically looks to the 75th International Astronautical Congress in ...