Surveyors and geospatial professionals can help measure and quantify the impact we are having on our environment and the positive potential of steps to intervene and, as Esri Founder Jack Dangermond would say, "design our future."

In the keynote speech kicking off HxGN Live 2019, Ola Rollén presented the challenge to use the technology we already have in smarter ways to improve productivity and efficiency, reduce waste, and pursue sustainability. He provided several interesting examples of how businesses are doing good things and making money at the same time.

In June 2017, a freakish storm, later described as a once-in-500-year rain event, dropped more than seven inches of water on central Michigan in just 36 hours.

One project that has continued to garner headlines for NCALM was in Honduras, where researchers used airborne LiDAR to map a remote region of the rainforest in 2012, uncovering evidence of a previously unknown ancient civilization.

The Lost City of the Monkey God has all of the elements of a great adventure novel, and yet, it's non-fiction.

MAPPS honored members with the 2018 Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards as part of their 12th annual awards banquet at the group's winter meeting in Denver in January.

Surveyors are harnessing the power of drone technology by focusing on at-risk riparian areas of northern New Jersey.

Bristol-based AG Surveys became the first company in England to officially use a UAS to survey beaches and prove the viability of the technology for coastal monitoring.