Friday, October 7th, 2016
DENVER, CO – Critigen, a global geospatial services firm, is poised for rapid expansion fueled by growth capital from Los Angeles based Angeleno Group, a leading private equity firm dedicated to next generation opportunities in the energy and natural resources sector. Angeleno Group joins majority shareholder, Transom Capital Group, in an effort to accelerate development
Friday, October 7th, 2016
TORONTO, Esri Canada User Conference – October 5, 2016 – Esri Canada today presented the County of Simcoe with an Award of Excellence for its outstanding use of geographic information system (GIS) technology. The County developed maps.simcoe.ca, a web mapping app that simplifies and broadens public access to more than 75 municipal datasets including community
Friday, October 7th, 2016
PRAGUE — Melown Technologies announces the launch of Melown.com, a very ambitious web based visualization platform for 2D and 3D geospatial data, as a way to create beautiful 3D maps using open and/or personal data. Melown combines a powerful JavaScript API with tens of terabytes of open and premium data available instantly from the cloud.
Friday, October 7th, 2016
Airbus Defence and Space announced that customers can now be served with WorldDEM data for any point on Earth. WorldDEM is a disruptive Digital Elevation Model (DEM), whose accuracy and quality surpass that of any global satellite-based elevation model available today. Setting a new standard, WorldDEM is the first global homogeneous, single-source, high-precision DEM. Following
Friday, October 7th, 2016
SUNNYVALE, Calif., – Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) unveiled today a next-generation survey instrument—the Trimble® SX10 Scanning Total Station. It merges high-speed 3D scanning, enhanced Trimble VISION™ imaging technology and high-accuracy total station measurements into familiar field and office workflows for surveyors. The innovative solution provides surveyors and geospatial professionals with the capabilities and versatility to handle
Friday, October 7th, 2016
When the White House launched the Opportunity Project in March, the Administration issued a call to action to private industry to help the government get its data into the hands of citizens in a usable way. While opening government data has been a priority for this Administration, there has been a real need for creating
Thursday, October 6th, 2016
Brisbane – On 10 October 2016 in Brisbane, Australia, 200 leaders from the public and private sector, including government ministers, business and civil society leaders, and leading scientists will take part in a historic summit on water scarcity and drought. Driven both by climate change and poor water management, droughts are becoming more frequent and water
Thursday, October 6th, 2016
The Opening Plenary of the World Ocean Council (WOC) Sustainable Ocean Summit (SOS), Rotterdam, 30 Nov-2 Dec 2016, will include: • Erik Solheim, Director, U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP); U.N. Under-Secretary-General • Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary, UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) • Joao Aguiar Machado, Director General, DG MARE, European Commission Additional industry leaders and senior
Thursday, October 6th, 2016
Cheseaux-Lausanne, Switzerland – senseFly, the world’s first choice producer of professional mapping drones, will introduce its next-generation fixed-wing system for survey-grade photogrammetric mapping, the eBee Plus, at INTERGEO 2016 on Oct. 11 in Hamburg, Germany. “The eBee Plus system is the ultimate tool for geospatial organisations that demand photogrammetric-quality mapping,” said senseFly’s CEO, Jean-Christophe
Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
GeoSLAM Ltd, the UK based pioneers of SLAM based mobile indoor mapping systems, and Blackdog Robotics, a leading US manufacturer of modular robots, have joined forces to offer Law enforcement, first responders, and the Military a unique rapid indoor mapping solution. Mark Reid, COO at GeoSLAM “Since the launch of the ZEB-REVO system in March
