February 22, 2025 – GISCafe, the premier source for geospatial news and insights, is proud to announce its extensive coverage of this year’s Geo Week Conference. From in-depth interviews with industry leaders to thought-provoking articles on emerging trends, GISCafe captured the pulse of the event, showcasing the innovation driving the geospatial sector.
Geo Week Event Highlights
Geo Week set new benchmarks this year by breaking attendance records and delivering an unprecedented experience for geospatial professionals. Held February 10–12, 2025 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO, the event drew a record 3,222 professionals from over 3,600 registrants representing 49 countries. The sold-out exhibit hall—featuring 215 leading exhibitors—became the largest in Geo Week’s history, while the celebration of World Lidar Day underscored global achievements in lidar technology. This dynamic convergence of technology, networking, and expert insights cemented Geo Week’s status as the go-to platform for exploring how data, maps, and advanced technologies can inform solutions to complex challenges.
In-Depth Video Interviews
At Geo Week, GISCafe conducted a series of exclusive interviews with key industry figures.
CompassCom CEO Brant Howard discussed the company’s growth strategy and the transformative impact of emerging technologies on data communications. His interview highlighted CompassCom’s commitment to empowering professionals through robust, reliable solutions that address modern geospatial challenges. Watch Interview
1. Technological Innovations: What major technological advancements or innovations do you foresee occurring in your industry in 2025, and how do you plan to adapt or lead in these areas?
In 2025, the telecom industry is at a crossroads of innovation and opportunity, driven by the need for efficiency, cost reduction, and smarter operations. Technological advancements are making existing workflows more efficient, accurate, scalable, and cost-effective, ensuring measurable results – today, while setting the stage for future workflow improvement as part of a broader digital transformation agenda.
The focus in 2025, as we see it, will be on using technology not only as an acceleration vehicle, but also as an ecosystem connector, bridging gaps across the different players and creating shared value for TowerCos, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), construction contractors and maintenance providers.
The geospatial industry, similar to the broader technology sector in general, has experienced another remarkable year of innovation. Geospatial solutions are continuously evolving to address complex challenges and unlock new opportunities for businesses. Many of 2024’s predictions have started to materialize, with advancements spanning GeoAI, cloud data warehousing, expanded data availability, and more.
While it’s challenging to narrow down such a wide range of innovation, this article will focus on 5 key trends shaping the future of location intelligence in 2025.
Generative AI Expanding into Geospatial Applications
Generative AI (GenAI) has continued to generate buzz, evolving from hype to tangible use cases on geospatial applications. From generating code to analyzing and summarizing data, GenAI’s outcome represents a significant productivity boost.
Korem’s Top 3 Key 2023 Trends for Enterprise Geospatial
Jonathan Houde
There is no shortage of evolution in the geospatial industry. It has grown tremendously in the past years, even creating subsegments including data acquisition, the use of more advanced drones, advanced immersive geospatial data visualization that leverages digital twins integrated with geospatial game engines, and even AR/VR technology.
However, today, we will focus on 3 key trends related to the increased momentum and evolution of geospatial within the enterprise ecosystem: data privacy, cloud-native, and the death of stand-alone GIS platforms.
New data privacy considerations with the increased use of big data and AI
There is an increase in companies specializing in the productization of derived data, enabled by big data processing and advanced AI capabilities. This can include feature extraction from imagery data, vehicle traffic data gathered from connected cars, or foot traffic data acquired from cellphones.
Normally, DGI would never condone torture under any circumstances, but when it comes to squeezing the maximum information out of your geospatial dataset, then they all for it!
Making the most of your pixels — gathering the most data you can from your imagery is one of the most important factors in multi-int today and Digital Globe are on the frontier of research and development of new technologies, but before marching forward, you need to know your past.
To explain more, DGI spoke to Jack Hild, VP of US Defence Strategy at Digital Globe.
Typically, geospatial intelligence is most commonly linked to defence and the military. While this may be true, more and more civilian organisations are utilising the power of geospatial information to radically improve their abilities. Unsurprisingly, the police force is one such area getting involved.
Associate Professor of Criminology, Law, Society & Planning, Policy & Design at the University of California Irvine speaks to DGI’s Online Editor Dan Mellins-Cohen about the innovative and highly successful implementation of geospatial intelligence by the LAPD to not only catch criminals, but proactively prevent crime.
Article source: Exelis Visual Information Solutions
Introducing the Next Generation of Image Analysis Software!
May 01, 2012 —Exelis Visual Information Solutions proudly announces the release of ENVI 5, the next generation of ENVI, the company’s industry-leading image analysis software which is used across industries by professionals who want to uncover hidden information in geospatial imagery in order to make better, more informed decisions. ENVI 5 introduces imagery consumers to an innovative and streamlined user process for their image analysis workflow, making complex analysis tasks easier. Designed to make image analysis accessible to users of virtually any experience level, ENVI 5 provides:
An intuitive, easy-to-navigate interface.
A highly-efficient display for large datasets.
New automated processes for several popular analysis tasks.
A flexible application programming interface for customizing the software to unique user needs.
Digital maps and online mapping tools are critical to understand authors mindsets, elements of plot and character development. GISetc has created a series of lectures showing how to incorporate GeoSpatial Tools in teaching language arts. These lectures are given by Barbaree Duke. She is a teacher who is developing curriculum & professional development courses to help teachers & students improve test scores & critical thinking with geospatial technologies.
The goal of GISetc TV is to share and create content that:
1. Excites students about GIS.
2. Is a resource for GIS educators and professionals.
3. Shares technological advances in the field of GIS studies.
4. Shares the adventures of GISetc in field studies, training, educational opportunities and more!
This is a cute video OGC (Open Geospatial Consorium) by ogcvideo. It sort of talks about what OGC is and what it is trying to do through its consensus standards development process.
City of Edmonton implemented an open, enterprise GIS system based on Intergraph technology. Edmonton officials continue to seek ways to improve their management and sharing of geospatial data, extend their investment into new areas, and integrate with other business systems. For more information on Intergraph’s government solutions, visit http://www.intergraph.com/govt/default.aspx
