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 ...

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 ...

When it comes to navigating their surroundings, machines have a natural disadvantage compared to humans. To help hone the ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Imagine the scene: You’re driving in an unfamiliar city and use Google Maps on your iPhone ...

Jeremy Goecks (left) is the Assistant Center Director for Research Informatics at the Moffitt Cancer Center (FL, USA), where he is also an Associate Faculty Member in the Department of Machine ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past 50 years, geographers have embraced each new technological shift in geographic information systems (GIS)—the ...

UNG is launching its master's degree in spatial data and information sciences this fall, aiming to help students become leaders in integrative data analysis. Spatial data scientists analyze the ...