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Companies, products, funding, standards, partnerships and the policies that shape the geospatial sector.
Every time a GIS analyst pulls down a Sentinel image, corrects a coordinate with GNSS, or runs a flood model off an Earth observation feed, they are quietly relying on something most of us never think about.
Geospatial technologies are revolutionising smart cities through GIS, digital twins, AI, IoT, and predictive analytics. Explore how cities across the world and Africa are using spatial intelligence to improve urban planning, climate resilience, disaster preparedness, and public service delivery.
As GIS becomes central to planning and decision-making, understanding legal obligations around data ownership, privacy, security, and compliance is more important than ever.
Remote sensing has transformed environmental monitoring, disaster management, and urban planning, but its growing capabilities raise important ethical questions about privacy, data ownership, security risks, and access to information.
Geovation has added NERC as a partner and now backs six extra land use startups per cohort, with Satellite Applications Catapult mentoring on pilots and procurement.
Source: GeoConnexion
GIS Certification Institute is promoting its GISP and entry-level GISP-E credentials across Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, seeking partners among employers and universities.
Source: Spatial Source
Melbourne hosts the 10th Digital Earth Summit and Locate26 from 24 to 26 November, with streams on GeoAI, 3D cadastre, digital twins and Earth observation.
Source: Spatial Source
Carahsoft will distribute Pointerra's cloud-native 3D digital twin platform to US and Canadian government agencies via federal and cooperative contracts.
Source: Carahsoft
BigData Ghana and Agbedus Consult will convene policymakers, investors and banks in Accra on 11–12 November to push spatial intelligence into decision-making.
Source: Financial Fortune Media
Tasmania held its first EISSI ceremony and Western Australia presented a wider slate of awards, with all winners now heading to the national awards in February 2027.
Source: Spatial Source
Space in Africa's 2026 report counts four deals worth $12.63m, all Kenyan, and introduces new frameworks to rate commercial readiness across 385 firms.
Source: Space in Africa
Eutelsat's Q1 video revenue dropped to €110 million while LEO revenue rose 30.1% to €70.9 million, and IRIS² entered its construction phase.
Source: Eutelsat
CoStar Group has agreed to buy Vexcel, maker of UltraCam cameras and operator of a 45-country aerial imagery programme, with closing expected in Q1 2027.
Source: CoStar Group
Ethiopia's space and geospatial institute and drone maker SkyWin agree to cooperate on drone manufacturing, testing, training and aerial survey services.
Source: Space in Africa