We want to serve our customers even better

Here at the National Land Survey of Finland (NLS), we want to organise our operations and services together, both internally and externally. The management system and internal organisational structures must support this goal.

Argelander: a Finnish pioneer in astronomy in the 19th century

Results of the Gaia Space Telescope were published on December 3, 2020. In the press release, the 19th century astronomer of Finnish background, Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (1799–1875) was also mentioned. Who was he and how is an ancient astronomer related to Gaia?

From silos to networks and ecosystems

We want to be able to better identify the ecosystems and networks of our field and, together with other stakeholders in both the public and private sectors, create services for customers with services that are based on digital service chains.

We can survive this by being proactive together

We are living in unusual times. The Finnish Government declared the use of powers under the Emergency Powers Act – for the first time in our history. We are preparing for this unprecedented situation through proactivity and expertise. We will continue our operations and service production as normally as possible.

Galileo incident of July 11th to 17th

On July 12th an incident affecting the European navigation system Galileo was reported on the news. For the user, the incident appeared so that Galileo satellites were not used for positioning. This was also seen on NLS' FinnRef network.

The new Government Programme supports research

Here at the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute we were eager to see how the Government Programme addresses research.

Gravity measurements in Antarctic summer

Geodetic and geodynamic research takes the research scientist around the world, sometimes as far as Antarctica. Last November, I did absolute gravity measurements in summery Antarctica.

Modernizing the Mining Industry

The KAIVOS (Efficient & safe identification of minerals) project was established as a Business Finland funded venture with FGI (Finnish Geodetic Research Institute / Paikkatietokeskus), Aalto University and VTT, with the final goal to realize a fully automated mineral recognition and positioning system to help mines locate and differentiate between minerals and know their locations at all times with unpresented accuracy.

Does the future of spatial data lie in open-source point cloud ecosystems?

Spatial data is a hot topic today: more and more parties and applications use location-based data. We can talk about a trend and even an "explosion of spatial data". Finland wants to be a part of the development. In the report on spatial data policy, which is being circulated for comments, the aim is that Finland will become the world's leading country in the use of spatial data.

FGI through the eyes of a PhD candidate

I had the pleasure to join the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute for six months as a visiting researcher in the framework of my doctoral studies at Politecnico di Torino, Italy.