Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
From Thursday 17 November, visitors to the Britain on Foot website (www.britainonfoot.co.uk) will be re-directed to a dedicated landing page on the OS site. The page is part of an all new #GetOutside section that hosts an extensive directory of routes and maps, skills advice and other information designed to encourage more people to explore
Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
Esri has released a baseline set of three-dimensional mapped Ecological Marine Units for researchers to examine the ocean’s resources and detect ecological marine changes. The company said the Group on Earth Observations, a consortium of more than 100 nations with an Earth observation-related protocol, also commissioned a global map of EMUs with the goal to help preserve ocean resources and keep
Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
The 3rd International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management (GISTAM 2017) has an open call for papers, whose deadline is scheduled for November 30, 2016. We hope you can participate in this conference by submitting a paper reflecting your current research in any of the following areas: data acquisition and processing, remote
Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
Noida, India – Geospatial World Forum 2017, the global geospatial technology and business conference, which is scheduled to take place from January 23- 25, in Hyderabad India, will witness the geospatial industry moguls come together on one common platform. As part of the agenda, Charlie Trimble, Founder of Trimble Inc., and Jack Dangermond, Founder,
Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
Tuffwing, a manufacturer of affordable aerial mapping systems recently performed integration of Emlid Reach RTK to enable making precision maps without use of ground control points. The system was benchmarked by comparing direct georeferenced model with a set of GCPs, used solely for error detection purposes. Achieved lateral RMS error is just 4cm according to
Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
AS VEGAS – Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) launched today its SketchUp Viewer for Microsoft HoloLens. The new mixed-reality solution allows users to virtually inhabit and experience their designs to improve quality, communication and efficiency in the design, construction and operation of buildings. SketchUp Viewer is the first extensible commercial HoloLens application available in the Windows Store. The
Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
WILSONVILLE, OR – FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced today that it has successfully completed its previouslyannounced acquisition of the business of Point Grey Research Inc., for an aggregate purchase price of $259 million in cash, or an enterprise value of $256 million excluding Point Grey’s closing cash balance. Founded in 1997 and based in
Monday, November 7th, 2016
Qlik, a leader in visual analytics, today announced its technology partnership with Esri Singapore, the country’s leading Geographic Information System (GIS) technology provider. The collaboration will see Esri Singapore and Qlik working together to educate industries on the benefits of synergising geographic and spatial analytics. Smart mapping: making intelligent decisions with geographic information Esri’s ArcGIS
Monday, November 7th, 2016
More than 100 delegates representing 31 countries gathered in Budapest, Hungary recently for the 3rd Plenary of UN-GGIM: Europe. The meeting, which was officially opened by Katalin Tóth, Deputy State Secretary on International Relations of the Ministry of Agriculture, Hungary, included a review of the past year’s activities and examples of how statistical and
Monday, November 7th, 2016
OGDEN, UT – WhiteClouds, a pioneering full-color 3D printing cloud provider, today announced the launch of 3DyourMAP, full-scale color printed models produced from drone data, available from the drone industry’s first app store, DroneDeploy’s App Market, launched this week. According to PwC, the emerging global market for businesses using drones is expected to top $127
