A new tracking technology can be used to monitor the ease of a shopping experience, measure the movement of life-saving equipment through a hospital, or chart a journey across Mars.

This course will look at the National Geodetic Survey's decade-long effort to prepare and modernize the National Spatial Reference System and its user community.

The next era of exploration requires a more advanced positioning technology that may be based on tagging.

For me, the fundamental question when discussing spatial data accuracy is "with respect to what?"

Depending on the use case, drones are an excellent choice for collecting high-quality remotely sensed data; however, current operating regulations in the U.S. require the operator to keep the drone in sight.

Spending is increasing and lasers are among tools being added.

When Bruce Storrs first accepted his job as San Francisco City and County Surveyor 14 years ago, he was well aware of the challenges.

Weighing the cost of new gear with better capabilities and capacities against the actual value it might deliver is tough.

By 2020, it is estimated that there will be over 40 trillion gigabytes of data globally. Managing all of this data is indeed a growing problem.

For the past two years, Svein Ivar Vestbø, a survey engineer with Norway’s Geomatikk Survey, has been scanning and producing 3D point clouds of relatively small structures. That all changed in December 2018 with a restoration project that would scale their scanning and surveying expertise to never-before heights and depths.