Traditionally, checking work on a project as it progressed entailed constant face-to-face communication with subcontractors, manually walking the site and measuring the work against drawings. On this project, Skycatch drone surveys replace this workflow with highly accurate 2D maps and 3D models.

Oregon construction crews, biologists, geologists, roadway designers and wetlands workers have gained precise digital as-constructed measurements for state projects using rugged GNSS tablets in the field.

To maintain high performance levels when handling large volumes of geospatial data, many service providers are turning to the cloud.

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.

While the number of surveyors who use drones continues to grow, there are still a handful of questions that keep cropping up at almost every survey conference.

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.