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Monday, July 31st, 2017

FARO Introduces SCENE 7.0 With Real Time, On-Site Registration

Lake Mary, FL – FARO® (NASDAQ: FARO), the world’s most trusted source for 3D measurement and imaging solutions for factory metrology, construction BIM/CIM, product design, public safety forensics, and 3D solutions, announces the availability of the FARO® SCENE 7.0 software platform (www.faro.com/scene). SCENE 7.0 includes the high quality, high value functionality offered by its predecessor,

Monday, July 31st, 2017

ILMF 2018: Call for Papers Deadline is August 14!

The 18th Annual International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF), taking place in Denver, Colorado, USA, February 5-7, 2018, has announced a Call for Papers and invites interested parties to submit their abstracts by August 14, 2017. ILMF is a technical conference and exhibition focused on surveying and mapping technologies including aerial, mobile and bathymetric lidar as

Thursday, July 27th, 2017

Trimble Introduces New Android Application for Field Surveying and Data Collection

SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) introduced today Trimble® Penmap® for Android™, a cloud-connected application for field surveying and high-accuracy Geographic Information System (GIS) data collection that works on mobile handhelds, smartphones and tablets. Trimble Penmap for Android focuses on core survey and mapping tasks such as cadastral and boundary surveys, establishing local control, stake-outs, quality checks

Thursday, July 27th, 2017

A&M-Corpus Christi’s Conrad Blucher Institute to Provide United Nations with GIS Expertise

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science (CBI) at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi has officially joined the United Nations-Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Academic Network. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi is one of three Universities in the nation, including Harvard University and the University of Maine, who are part of this network.

Wednesday, July 26th, 2017

FLIR Expands Distribution for Machine Vision Cameras in Italy

WILSONVILLE, Ore.  – FLIR Systems Inc. (NASDAQ) announced today that VisionLink srl will become FLIR’s first authorized machine vision distributor in Italy and will begin selling FLIR’s lineup of FLIR USB3 Vision and FLIR GigE Vision area scan cameras. VisionLink srl is a machine vision hardware, software, and consulting provider based in Italy focused on

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

The Remote Paradise with a Plastic Problem

In the middle of the South Pacific Ocean, far from the urban, developed world, there’s a small, lush, green island with white sand beaches. However, this uninhabited, remote corner of the tropics—Henderson Island—also has a trash problem. The beaches of Henderson Island have the highest density of plastic waste in the world, according to a

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

FLIR Releases FLIR Blackfly S GigE Machine Vision Camera Family

WILSONVILLE, Ore.  – FLIR Systems Inc. (NASDAQ) today released a new Gigabit Ethernet-based (GigE) machine vision camera, the FLIR Blackfly S. Ideal for a range of applications including display and PCB inspection, microscopy, robotics, 3D scanning, intelligent traffic systems, the Blackfly S gives machine vision developers the tools to quickly develop innovative solutions by combining

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

Norwegian Microsatellite Built by Space Flight Laboratory Deploys First-of-Kind Yagi Antenna for VHF Data Exchange from Space

TORONTO, Ontario, Canada  – The Norwegian Space Centre has announced successful deployment of critical antennas and probes on the NORsat-1 and NORsat-2 microsatellites built by Canada’s Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) and launched on July 14 from Kazakhstan. Most notable was deployment of a large Yagi antenna from NORsat-2 that will provide first-of-its-kind VHF Data Exchange

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

MDA Signs Contract Amendment with US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to Provide Information Solution to Support Flight Operations at Airports

VANCOUVER – MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX:MDA), a global communications and information company, today announced that it has signed a contract amendment with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for its Geospatial Terminal Operations (GTO) requirement.  MDA will provide an additional year of software systems and services to automate the production of

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

Shaping the Future of Spatial Data Management and Analytics

Karlsruhe, Germany, 25/07/2017: DISY Informationssysteme GmbH will be celebrating its 20th anniversary at this year’s INTERGEO, which takes place in Berlin from September 26 to 28. For two decades, the Karlsruhe-based company has been associated with smart GIS and reporting solutions made in Germany. At the world’s largest trade fair for geodesy, spatial data and