Introduction pages, Nova Geodesia 5(1), 2025

Nova Geodesia (https://novageodesia.ro), Issue 1, Volume 5, 2025: The papers published in this issue represent interesting novelties in different topics of geodetic science or related fields. Nova Geodesia publishes significant papers in geodesy and close topics related to cartography, engineering projects and construction, planetology, hydrography, geography, sociodemographic factors, urban administration, planning and environment, landscape, biodiversity, and ecology. Among the exciting articles, we invite readers to find news about: Determinants of household-level food and nutritional security in urban vegetable producers: A case study; Enhanced geoid modelling in local geodetic networks: Comparative analysis of Least Squares Collocation techniques; Optimizing light trap height and installation timing for effective monitoring of insect pests in rice field; Positional accuracy evaluation of CORS VRS, PPK, static GPS + GLONASS, and total station surveys in urban areas; Interactive effect of land use types and depth on selected physicochemical properties of soils: A case study; Application of remote sensing and clustering for the sustainable management of green oak forests in western Algeria; Shoreline predictive model using artificial intelligence for the homogeneous beach of the Western Coast of Ghana.