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Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

Sokkia Announces its Receivers to be Used for Latvian Forest Management

LIVERMORE, Calif., USA/ CAPELLE A/D IJSSEL, The Netherlands – Sokkia announces the largest forest management company in Latvia – Joint Stock Company “Latvia’s State Forests” (LVM) – chose its latest compact GNSS receivers for forest data collection. The company will use 140 Sokkia GCX2 receivers to gather GIS data for assistance in forest management. Employing more

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

Eos Announces Sub-Meter and RTK Solutions for Esri’s New Collector 10.4.0 for iOS

Eos Positioning Systems (Eos) announces Arrow GNSS receiver series compatibility with Esri’s Collector for ArcGIS running on iPads and iPhones. The Arrow Series GNSS receivers have been tested and certified as high-accuracy GNSS receivers compatible with Collector 10.4.0 for iOS. The full range of Arrow GNSS receivers from sub-meter to decimeter to centimeter RTK accuracy

Monday, July 25th, 2016

As Wildfire Season Continues to Heat up, Interior Partners with Industry to Eliminate Drone Intrusions

WASHINGTON, D.C. – To address the growing problem of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) impeding wildland firefighting efforts, the U.S. Department of the Interior and industry partners activated a prototype warning system that provides real-time alerts and geofencing alarms to prevent drone pilots from interfering with firefighting operations. “This pilot project makes initial wildfire location data publicly available

Monday, July 25th, 2016

UAV Industry Taking Off

Karlsruhe, Hamburg 25 July 2016 – The new sector for hardware and software manufacturers and service providers in the UAS industry is incredibly dynamic. As part of INTERGEO in Hamburg from 11 to 13 October, interaerial SOLUTIONS will be showcasing the legal frameworks, new areas of application, growing safety concepts and much more. “The geoindustry

Monday, July 25th, 2016

Geospatial Science Expert to Help Determine Greenhouse Gas Guidelines

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A geospatial science expert at the University of Arkansas will help refine international guidelines for greenhouse gas inventories that will be considered for adoption by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The panel, known as IPCC, was created to provide policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its

Friday, July 22nd, 2016

Drone Industry Experts and Major Firms Are Set to Present at the UAS Summit & Expo

GRAND FORKS, ND – UAS Magazine announced this week the preliminary agenda for the 10th annual UAS Summit & Expo, the Upper Midwest’s premier unmanned aircraft systems event produced by UAS Magazine and the Red River Valley Research Corridor. Taking place August 22-24 in Grand Forks, ND, the agenda, focused on both small and large unmanned

Friday, July 22nd, 2016

World LiDAR Market Overview, By MarketIntelReports

According to a new research report by MarketIntelReports titled “Global LiDAR Industry 2016 Research Report” is a detailed qualitative analysis of the factors responsible for driving and restraining growth of the LiDAR Industry and future opportunities are provided in the report. Improved automated processing ability in data processing and image resolution capabilities over other technologies

Thursday, July 21st, 2016

Geospatial Minds for Society – GI_Forum 2016 in Retrospect

GI_Forum 2016, the 10th annual conference along with its sister conference, AGIT and the German branch of FOSSGIS, was held at the University of Salzburg, Austria. It was organized by the Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS of the University of Salzburg, and GIScience Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. 1200 participants from 36

Thursday, July 21st, 2016

Cadcorp Selected to Provide Intranet Web Mapping Capability to Halton Borough Council

Stevenage, 21 July 2016 – Halton Borough Council has decided to migrate its intranet mapping GIS to products provided by the British software developer, Cadcorp. Following an announcement that support for its existing intranet GIS products was to be withdrawn, Halton Borough Council (HBC) approached the market to find a new technology set. Early in

Thursday, July 21st, 2016

Loudoun County Honored for 30 Years of Innovation with GIS

Redlands, California —Esri has presented Loudoun County, Virginia with an award for 30 years of excellence in geographic information system (GIS) technology, during which time the county has continuously innovated how it delivers smarter, better government services. In 1962, when Washington Dulles International Airport opened in Loudoun, the county soon transformed from a rural community