China's geospatial information sector, a key component of digital mapping and positioning, is approaching a scale of 1 trillion yuan ($143 billion), the Ministry of Natural Resources said recently.

Abstract: The way we handle spatial data has changed significantly as a result of the integration of machine learning with geospatial data. Machine Learning techniques increase the accuracy, efficacy, ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming many sectors of the economy, and engineering is not immune. AI applied to the environmental engineering space, especially with geospatial analysis and ...

Over the past 50 years, geographers have embraced each new technological shift in geographic information systems (GIS)—the technology that turns location data into maps and insights about how places ...

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President Trump has selected Army Lt. Gen. Michele H. Bredenkamp to serve as the next Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). If confirmed by the Senate, Bredenkamp will become ...

An aerial view of the NGA's new campus in north St. Louis. The agency officially opened the facility in late September 2025. With the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency’s new headquarters in ...

St. Louis is vying to be the next big defense tech hub with a new initiative meant to attract startups and investors eager to build up the geospatial industry. But while advocates see the Gateway City ...

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 ...

Federal civilian agencies are operating at a critical inflection point. The public expects faster, smarter, and more transparent services, while agencies face pressure to deliver under tightening ...

Few things generate as much data as simply observing Earth from above. But Ryan Abernathey and Joe Hamman very quickly realized that all that data still wasn’t enough for their startup to thrive.