Powering the Geospatial Industry Forward at Geo Week 2023
March 12, 2023
With leading industry sessions, an exhibit, quarterly board meeting, and networking, WGIC brought momentum to the geospatial industry at Geo Week 2023
Advancing the geospatial ecosystem
Industry Insights
‘Internships are more like dating’
March 8, 2023
WGIC and academia uncover the power of collaborative strategies to make geospatial workforce future-ready during “Geospatial Education and Market Needs” session at Geo Week 2023
WGIC Leads the Way in Advocating for DEI in Geospatial Sector
March 6, 2023
Explore the latest insights and best practices for promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the geospatial industry from WGIC’s DEI session at Geo Week 2023.
Policy Considerations for Spatial Digital Twins
February 7, 2023
WGIC identified policy gaps in relation to digital twin technology and presented policy considerations for the geospatial industry.
Time is ripe for Indian enterprises to embrace geospatial ESG
December 16, 2022
This rising interest, to determine environmental risk and financial materiality, coincides with improvements in satellite technology, geospatial tools and machine learning is spurring the development and interest in Geospatial ESG.
Spatial Digital Twins Present $25Bn Market Opportunity for Geospatial Industry
December 6, 2022
Following the increasing awareness of the potential of digital twin technology, the global market size of this technology is expected to grow substantially.
WGIC Guidelines: Value Creation to Digital Twin Ecosystem
November 22, 2022
WGIC identifies guidelines and recommendations for the geospatial industry to continue to add value to the digital twin ecosystem.
Spatial Digital Twins Assessment – the Current Situation
September 22, 2022
The assessment of the digital twin technology development level allows a clearer understanding of the challenges, trends, and capability and capacity for its deployment. Reliable insights on this help to better understand the challenges of this new technology to address them effectively. In brief, these are the aspects of the current spatial digital twin assessment covered in the World Geospatial Industry Council’s (WGIC) recently released policy report.
Envisioning the Future Digital Twins – WGIC Way
September 13, 2022
Just like the physical world is interconnected and globalized, digital twins enabled by spatial components will be interconnected and integrated into the world. In a nutshell, this is the vision of spatial digital twins that the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC) envisages in its recent report.
Diverse Workforce and Safe Work Environment Supercharge Geospatial Industry
August 22, 2022
Across the many DEI trends in the geospatial industry – a diverse workforce and a safe work environment are being focused on by WGIC Members.
Four Reasons Why It’s Time for Big Bets on Geospatial PPPs
June 15, 2022
A recent WGIC report Public-Private Geospatial Collaborations: Exploring Potential partnerships Models, examines the forces that are paving the way for the increased openness and adoption of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the geospatial industry.
Digital Twin Technology – How to Unlock Opportunities with Geospatial Data and Technology?
June 9, 2022
One of the key findings from a recently released report on Spatial Digital Twins by the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC) is that “the use of spatial data can unlock value and enable increased usability of almost all Digital Twins.”
SGDs Geospatial Roadmap – Simplifying geospatial adoption for SDGs to non-geospatial stakeholders.
April 11, 2022
WGIC spoke to Paloma Merodio, Vice President and Member of the Board of INEGI, who is also the Co-chair at UN-GGIM, who played a crucial role in publishing the SDGs Geospatial Roadmap.
Nine technology breakthroughs redefining Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI)
February 15, 2022
Artificial intelligence is changing the world as we know it. Check out nine breakthrough technology advancements in GeoAI that will continue to push the field forward. This blog is part of the GeoAI Series, taken from the WGIC GeoAI Report.
ITF: Public transport must double in cities over next decade to meet 1.5°C target
November 12, 2021
Public transport usage must double in global cities over the next decade, requiring $208 billion USD each year across C40 cities and creating 4.6m new jobs, show new figures from C40 Cities and ITF.
UNEP launched Methane Observatory to boost action on Greenhouse Gas
November 2, 2021
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), with support from the European Union, launched a new Observatory to drive action on reducing methane emissions – a powerful greenhouse gas responsible for at least a quarter of the current climate warming.
Oracle global survey: construction industry looks to predictive analytics to improve project outcomes
November 2, 2021
A new survey, sponsored by WGIC Member Oracle Construction and Engineering, shows that most architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms are looking to predictive analytics to improve project outcomes and mitigate risks.
Cyient a major contender in inaugural Everest Group PEAK Matrix for 5G Engineering Services
October 26, 2021
WGIC Member Cyient has been named a ‘Major Contender’ in the Everest Group PEAK Matrix for 5G Engineering Services.
Esri ArcGIS GeoBIM: spatial context in AEC operations
October 11, 2021
At Autodesk University 2021, WGIC member Esri unveiled a new product that expands the ability for BIM project teams to benefit from GIS.
Satellogic uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ground Station
October 7, 2021
Earth Observation data collection technology company Satellogic uses AWS to scale its live earth catalog.