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 ...

What do environmental management, urban planning, public health and civil engineering all have in common? They use geospatial information science and technology to make important decisions. Geospatial ...

From wildlife movement research to fire ecology, M.S. in Biodiversity Data Analytics lecturer Jay M. Schoen explains how ...

Imagine the scene: You’re driving in an unfamiliar city and use Google Maps on your iPhone to get directions to your next meeting. But you don’t just want to know how to get from point A to point B.

Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) have transformed the way we capture, store, and analyse spatial data by integrating methods from computer science, statistics and geography. Central to GIS is the ...

According to Deloitte, more than 1,170 Earth observation satellites are currently in orbit, and 51% of them have been launched since 2019. Thanks to massive advances in satellites as they monitor ...

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 ...

On March 26th, Crain’s New York Business and Esri, a market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, hosted a virtual event exploring pioneering applications of geospatial technologies ...

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 ...