New Zealand’s two leading public sector Earth sciences agencies will merge on 1 July to become a new super-agency. The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), a Crown Research ...

AMETEK and FARO Technologies have announced that they have entered into an agreement under which AMETEK will acquire all outstanding shares of FARO Technologies common stock. AMETEK will pay US$44 per ...

FrontierSI has announced the launch of what it is calling Australia’s first positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) Labs, being a network of facilities for testing and analysing the performance and ...

Topcon and FARO Technologies have announced that they have inked a “strategic agreement” to jointly develop innovative solutions for the laser scanning market. The companies say the agreement will ...

The European Copernicus Earth observation office has announced an “exceptional and temporary” extension of the availability of the data from the Sentinel-2A satellite mission for one year. In ...

A new research paper outlines the creation of a 30m-resolution digital elevation model of the Earth’s terrain that is more accurate than any other publicly available. The paper, entitled ‘FathomDEM: ...

Edith Cowan University’s (ECU) collaborative lightning strike study with NASA, the IGNIS Project, has just completed its first round of aerial data collection. The effort has used infrared cameras to ...

Canadian space data company, Wyvern, has launched an Open Data Program aimed at the Earth observation community, offering unrestricted hyperspectral imagery access and use providing attribution credit ...

Data visualisation and mapping have a vital role in preparing for and responding to hazards and natural disasters. By Christophe Lienert and Jie Shen Information and warnings are decisive elements in ...

WA’s Advanced Spatial Digital Twin will see an entire third of the continent replicated in spatially accurate 4D. First published on 1 July 2024 By Jonathan Nally The Government of Western Australia ...

INGEO 2025, the 9th International Conference on Engineering Surveying, continues the series of meetings that began in 1998. The aim of the conference is to bring together professionals in the field of ...

There has been a changing of the guard in the locating and inspection sector, with C.R. Kennedy becoming the master distributor for Vivax Metrotech instruments in Australia, New Zealand and the ...