Interview with Head of GIS at Aspectum about deforestation problems, environmental degradation, nature conservation, drone mapping technologies and the role of geospatial technologies in forestry.

Bringing the location dimension to a BI solution helps companies improve productivity. While both GIS and BI tools are leveraged for data analysis, there are areas when using GIS brings better value.

Data is king whatever upheavals happen in the world. Its storage and protection emerge a great challenge for businesses of all sizes mostly when cyberattacks occur even more often. Whether a small company or a large corporation, each of them needs an empty-of-threats environment.

While we are counting COVID-19 cases, we shouldn’t forget about side victims of quarantine measures. One consequence of COVID-19 is a global increase in domestic violence. Due to the self-isolation regime, victims were left under the same roof with their abusers. Aspeсtum has collected detailed data to figure out how we can stop another spreading threat.

Object detection is a completely innovative technology. People could only dream about it centuries ago. Nowadays, its immense contribution enables businesses and governments to enter the new level of their development. With object detection, large-scale monitoring and advanced analytics get fulfilled considerably promptly while the optimization of previously challenging tasks allows data-driven decision-making.

Aspectum, a cloud service for data analytics, has published the findings of its research on the overall situation in the GIS industry. The GIS Community Survey has become the first GIS people-centered report with the spotlight directed on industry specialists. The report highlights the professionals’ likes and dislikes, challenges they encounter, and their expectations.

Change Detection has become a buzz-word in conversations about satellite analytics and location intelligence. This technology is romanticized and is oftentimes perceived as an all-seeing eye and a panacea. But is it really? Let’s set the record straight and clarify the purpose of change detection, its value, as what is still beyond its capabilities.

When organizations wish to monitor business metrics and key performance indicators in real time to gain a better grasp on their performance and objectives, they turn to data visualization tools to translate data into charts and graphs.

Interview with Steven Ramage about the GIS industry, how spatial technologies changed over the last decades, challenges, and motivations that drive his work.