Geospatial engineering combines principles of engineering, geography, and surveying to collect, analyze, and manage spatial data. Geospatial engineering involves surveying. Over time, the field of ...

With record-breaking temperatures across the South, smoke from Canadian wildfires across the North, historic flooding in the Northeast and a powerful hurricane in the Southeast, the summer of 2023 has ...

Every modern map app hides a deeper system underneath, and that system is geospatial data. It is information tied to a location on Earth, usually through latitude and longitude, so software can ...

Don Murray is cofounder of Safe Software and has spent his career helping organizations bring life to data to make better decisions. The world we live in is spatial. Think about how many times you use ...

In my August 2025 GPS World newsletter column, I highlighted that a colleague reminded me that the National Geodetic Survey’s (NGS) new National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) is more than a ...

“Data governance policy is a collection of principles, frameworks, programs, roles, and responsibilities that help manage data collection, storage, access, usage, quality, and archival of data assets ...

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency analysts used satellite imagery to identify areas where logging had occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in potential violation of agreements.

Open the Planetary Computer data catalog and you will find all kinds of useful data: from decades’ worth of satellite imagery to biomass maps, from the US Census to fire data. All together, there are ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Surendran Amerendran, a technical architect at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is reaping the recognition for his contributions to ...

The choices for how to structure geospatial data governance roles and responsibilities can seem daunting. One thing for certain, however, is that leaving key roles unfilled or unrealized will ensure ...