Category Archives: Education
Building the Next Generation of Geomatics Professionals
How Fresno State, Trimble, and CSDS Are Closing the Workforce and Technology Gap On January 22–23, 2026, Fresno State hosted the 65th Annual Geomatics Engineering Conference at the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Student Union, bringing together students, educators, surveyors, engineers, and technology providers for two days of technical sessions, vendor exhibits, and professional networking. The conference, which has been...
Workflow Innovations at Trimble Dimensions 2025
How a user-driven rethink of field–office connectivity, training, and cross-industry collaboration is changing the way surveyors, geospatial teams, and builders deliver work—on time, on spec, and at scale. Trimble Dimensions has never been a passive showcase. It has always been an event where surveyors, contractors, geospatial professionals, and engineers collide with technology and leave with...
Jack Dangermond’s Vision for the Future
The geospatial industry is moving through a period of profound transformation. Advances in reality capture, artificial intelligence, and cloud integration are converging with urgent global challenges, from climate resilience to urbanization. In this moment, few figures are as influential as Jack Dangermond, founder and CEO of Esri. For more than fifty years, he has guided...
The Woodstock of GIS: Inside the Esri UC 2025 Experience
At the San Diego Convention Center in July, thousands of GIS professionals, developers, and geospatial newcomers descended upon the 2025 Esri User Conference, an event one company booth dubbed “the Woodstock of GIS.” It’s an apt comparison: energetic, communal, buzzing with shared ideals and grounded in decades of serious, technical evolution. But unlike Woodstock, the...
Start with “Why”
Legal Boundaries Several years ago, Simon Sinek gave a TED Talk on marketing—a business, services, products, even ideas and beliefs. He used several real-life examples including the success of Apple, the achievements of the Wright brothers, and the beliefs of Dr. Martin Luther King. The video, now somewhat dated, is still available on TED Talks...
Located: April 2025
Compiled by Jeff Salmon Europe Kickstarts its Own Sat-Com The European Union will soon boast its own secure communication satellites system similar to Starlink with the signing of a new space contract in Brussels, Belgium, in December. IRIS², short for Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellites, will be composed a multi-orbital constellation of 290...