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Wednesday, July 29th, 2015

CMC Acquires Maptek Sentry for Survey and Monitoring at Portia Gold Mine

July 29, 2015 — Consolidated Mining & Civil Pty Ltd (CMC) has acquired a Maptek Sentry monitoring system, primarily for use at Havilah Resources Limited’s Portia gold mine in South Australia.

Wednesday, July 29th, 2015

SuperField Supports Portuguese GPS Provider with GIS Application

July 29, 2015 — Nautel, Portugal, the navigation and GPS turnkey solution provider, selects SuperField, the GIS data collection application, to provide users with a complete survey task-oriented choice.

Wednesday, July 29th, 2015

Velodyne’s 3D LiDAR Sensor Helps EU Joint Research Centre Win Microsoft Competition

MORGAN HILL, Calif., July 29, 2015 — A team of researchers from the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s in-house science service, has outperformed a global mix of 27 teams from academia and industry, achieving the best overall result at a recent Microsoft-sponsored indoor localization competition in Seattle – and 3D, real-time LiDAR sensor technology

Wednesday, July 29th, 2015

EYESMAP: New Architects and Archaeologist 3D Tablet Available Now

July 29, 2015 — 3D documentation works are an important part of architect´s job. Monuments, old buildings, indoors scenarios, stairs, ornaments, vaults, etc have to be captured faithfully every day. All this documentation needs to be generated fast and accurately. Can the architects create all this documentation with at high quality using just one instrument?

Tuesday, July 28th, 2015

New Magnolia State Maps Adding Trails

July 28, 2015 — Several of the 772 new US Topo quadrangles for Mississippi now display parts of the Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail and other selected public trails. Further significant additions to the new quadrangles include map symbol redesign, enhanced railroad information and new road source data. For Gulf Coast residents, recreationalists and visitors

Tuesday, July 28th, 2015

Bluesky Announces Prototype UAV Flight Restriction Map

Leicestershire, UK, July 28, 2015 — Aerial mapping company Bluesky has produced a prototype map showing where it may be unsafe or even illegal to fly Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly referred to as Drones.  Bluesky has combined an expertise in flight planning and 3D aerial mapping with various geographic datasets to come up with the concept

Tuesday, July 28th, 2015

OGC announces Common DataBase Best Practice

July 28, 2015 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership announces OGC’s approval of the OGC Common DataBase specification as an OGC Best Practice.

Tuesday, July 28th, 2015

First Applications from Sentinel-2A

July 28, 2015 — From agricultural monitoring to charting changing lands, early images from Europe’s new Sentinel-2A satellite show how the ‘colour vision’ mission’s critical observations can be used to keep us and our planet safe.

Tuesday, July 28th, 2015

eBumper4 Flies into the Consumer Drone Market

Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 28, 2015 — Commercial drones are no longer just a product for the enterprise or government, but are quickly emerging as a mainstream venture for the everyday consumer. With dozens of options already on the market, finding an affordable drone has become fairly simple, but the cost of replacing one or repairing damaged

Monday, July 27th, 2015

Hexagon Geospatial Visualizes Stories with the Hexagon Smart M.App

Norcross, GA, July 27, 2015 — Hexagon Geospatial is pleased to introduce the Hexagon Smart M.App®, providing a new way to understand and share your geospatial experience. These new light-weight applications cohesively combine data, workflows, and analytics. Hexagon Smart M.Apps are creatively designed maps to solve distinct business problems.