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 ...

In the race to deliver faster, smarter, and more resilient networks, CSP and telco leaders are finding a powerful ally in geospatial innovation. Once used primarily for emergency response and basic ...

NASA’s Earthdata service has released new tutorials and data recipes for GIS users who wish to brush up on their skills. The resources make use of NASA data, such as those from the ECOsystem ...

The Stanford researcher’s startup aims to build A.I. systems fluent in the physical world. Photo by Yui Mok - Pool/Getty Images So-called world models like Marble are central to Li’s vision of the ...

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 ...

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.

Git isn’t hard to learn. Moreover, with a Git GUI such as Atlassian’s Sourcetree, and a SaaS code repository such as Bitbucket, mastery of the industry’s most powerful version control tools is within ...

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 ...

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Deputy Director Brett Markham speaks at the GEOINT 2025 Symposium. Credit: USGIF ST. LOUIS — Artificial intelligence continues to loom large over the future of ...