Surveying & Mapping

The tools and techniques behind accurate measurement of the world, from field surveying and GNSS to the data products that result.

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Essential Reading

Maptitude Named 2026 Data Quadrant Champion for Geographic Information Systems by Info-Tech Research Group

Bluebeam Accelerates AI Strategy with New Bluebeam Max Capabilities and mbue Acquisition

CivilGEO Software Recognized with 31 Badges in G2 Summer 2026 Reports

Geopost puts AI and smart infrastructure at the heart of delivery innovation at VivaTech 2026

Latapult Launches Regions Plus, Powering Advanced Land Intelligence and GIS Workflows

Smart Pixels: The Building Block for the Next Evolution of Digital Twins

Latest Articles

How accurate is the marketing of accuracy in the reality capture world?

Google announced new AR-based navigation services–and already has a competitor

Are meshes making point-cloud animation pointless?

Bentley makes two acquisitions to bring BIM to geotechnical pros

Indoor Reality releases mobile 3D capture phone app, hardware

nFrames: Automated information extraction for high-volume photogrammetry

Delair’s new UX11 UAV exploits edge computing for a “future proof” geospatial mapping tool

NavVis M6: 6D SLAM for large-scale indoor lidar mapping

Matterport and BIMobject to offer “a complete alternative to BIM” for facilities management

Kaarta’s “Reality Layer” processes photorealistic models in your handheld scanning device

Viametris’ lidar scanning backpack shoots panoramas, too

Ouster has a new $3.5k, 16-channel lidar (and a 64-channel sensor with longer range)

FARO’s BuildIT Construction is a QA/QC tool–and a sign of things to come

Voxxlr uses Google cloud to take point clouds to the next level

Mapillary integrates GIS and crowdsourced street-level imagery

RIEGL’s VMX-2HA: A lidar mobile mapper for 2018

Hands on w/ Trimble Business Center: a surprisingly good point cloud tool for survey

Indoor Reality wants to revolutionize interior 3D capture

TeraRanger Hub Evo: A configurable lidar system for capturing “selective point clouds”

Higher endurance and altitude with YellowScan’s two new UAV lidar mappers

Capture! Compute! Create?

Trimble’s MX9: A big mobile mapper in a small package

A forest-lidar guru turns to SfM (…plus lidar)

A higher class of UAV lidar

ILMF ’18: Cepton’s SORA 200 is a small, affordable lidar for UAV (thanks to autonomous vehicles)

Leica Geosystems’ Pegasus:Two Ultimate captures pro-grade 360° imagery that “pops” for smart city applications

Leica Geosystems’ TerrainMapper: the next generation of aerial linear lidar

mdLiDAR1000: taking the fully integrated drone lidar solution to the next level

Arvizio’s AR now visualizes DotProduct point clouds in AR

Geiger-mode and single photon lidar: 5 things you should know in 2018

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Foundations

Where US Federal Transportation Funding Stands, and What Happens Next

The law funding federal highway, transit and rail programs has expired and been extended to December 11. Here is how the money actually moves, why the trust fund behind it keeps running short, and where the replacement bill sits.

Geo Week Keynote Examines “A Lake in Crisis: Mapping Utah’s Great Salt Lake”

Keynote Panel to Reveal What New Bathymetric Lidar Data Reveals About One of the West’s Most Threatened Lakes

Where Efficiency Meets Purpose at Year in Infrastructure 2026

Day One at Bentley's 2026 Year in Infrastructure in Singapore