Aerial photography has played a major role in advancing operational precision agriculture applications. As image precision has gotten better, so too has the need for advanced research and powerful geospatial tools to learn best how to harvest such data-rich information into efficient, effective and reliable tools of the precision agriculture trade.

Remote sensing products and services accelerate response time, deliver more actionable information into the hands of first responders, and help rebuilding efforts during and after natural and man-made disasters.

David Sandilands is an aerial survey pilot and remote sensing technician with The Barbara Wheatland Geospatial Analysis Laboratory – School of Forest Resources, at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine.

Jeff Liedtke has personally witnessed the incredible evolution of the geospatial industry during his 30-year career developing imagery and software products using remotely sensed data.

The bottom of the ocean is the largest uncharted area on our planet. Several international organizations are joining forces to create a comprehensive global bathymetric model useful for multiple applications.

The Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) announced the Norwegian Space Centre has ordered a NorSat-3, for maritime traffic monitoring.

As supporting micro technologies continue to develop, manufacturers of small satellites will design smaller, less expensive platforms around increasingly high-functioning sensors for a variety of applications.

Over the next three years, Pix4D expects photogrammetry to break new ground due to the advancement of image processing power and machine learning technologies. Advances will likely be complemented with a fuller integration of photogrammetry with different technologies such as LiDAR, virtual reality and augmented reality.

Working as a photogrammetrist and LiDAR expert is not something Robert Jonathan Crawshaw always planned on.

According to USGS, coral reefs serve as useful indicators of the health of marine environments, but they are declining in many parts of the world. Geospatial data acquisition methods are providing a basic data layer from which to better understand how coral reefs are structured and function.