Richard Groom travelled to the West End for Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure event. This annual event attracts Bentley users from all over the globe for conference sessions,...

Digital Construction Week 2018 returned to Excel in October as an exhibition, with a main stage for paid conference sessions and several ‘theatres’ within the exhibitio...

The TSA Conference 2018 was held on 7 November at Holdenby House in Northamptonshire with the theme of 'Surveying Iconic Structures'. The keynote presentation was given by Nick Ran...

Today’s digital societies require a continuous supply of updated, reliable and correct geodata, and new technologies are arriving with increasing speed. The manned aerial sur...

The Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (RSPSoc) conference for 2018 was organised jointly with the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) and the Centre for EO Instrum...

I have reported from conferences held in a variety of settings, from five-star hotels to a converted agricultural hall, but never an empty factory so authentic that it probably loo...

There is an abundance of data today, but how can it be processed, visualised and analysed to deliver real business benefits? We are in the midst of a digital transformation, and wo...

As part of the institution’s 150th-anniversary celebrations, the RICS hosted an event to award Dr John Rae posthumously as an honorary Chartered Surveyor, in London on 13 Sep...

The Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE) held a lunch at the RICS Headquarters in London to launch the CASLE Jubilee year. The event opened with a short a...

When the Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) held their second Innovation Festival in July 2018, it was an event like no other. The festival’s aim was to turn the concept of a typ...

The RICS held its Digital Built Environment Conference on 21 June in London. Other than your reporter, there was one other chartered land surveyor in attendance. It is not difficul...

Enter the Virtual Reality Crime Scene To experience virtual reality I visited a stand featuring a system presented by RiVR. Although the area was decorated as a crime scene, the re...

This year’s GEO Business conference, held on 22-23 May in London’s Islington, was, according to Geomatics World editors Ian Dowman and Richard Groom, the biggest and be...

Continuously operating reference stations (CORS) are permanent GNSS stations that log and disseminate GNSS observations continuously to meet various user needs. CORS networks have...

More than 3,000 professionals from the technology community came together to discover game-changing solutions, receive unprecedented access to hundreds of technical and educational...