Given the current state of practice and visions for the future (including AI), certain practices should be reevaluated. This ...

On Tuesday, February 17, 2025, the comet is predicted to come closest to Earth at a distance of around 151.5 million kilometers, or 1.01 astronomical units (AU).

As regular readers of this newsletter know, my primary focus over the past year has been to champion the importance of geodesy and to prepare the geospatial ...

The CCO GeospatialOntology includes some elements for a partial implementation of coordinate reference system definitions. Coordinate reference systems are tricky things. There is a long history and ...

Accra, Aug.19, GNA-The Lands Commission on Tuesday, August 19, 2025, unveiled the Continuous Operating Reference System (CORS) Network to enhance data accuracy of fieldwork and survey operations ...

WGS84 encompasses both geodetic coordinates as well as Cartesian coordinates. I believe what is called Earth-Centered Earth-Fixed Coordinate System is also WGS84 - that would be common usage, since ...

In a new study published on 04 December 2023, in the journal Satellite Navigation, researchers from Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping have developed a self-structured Empirical SSP (SESSP) ...

In this work, algorithms have been developed to: 1. Compare visual field coordinate data, presented in different representation systems; 2. Determine the distance in degrees between any two points in ...

Abstract: Lidar sensors are commonly equipped on a mobile mapping system (MMS) to establish point clouds for HD map creation. However, the point clouds themselves do not contain object attributes.