Friday, December 13th, 2019
LiDAR, short for light detection and ranging, is often considered the primary sensor for self-driving cars, given its ability to create high definition maps of the surrounding environment. LiDAR provides a three-dimensional point cloud of a car’s surroundings by measuring how long light takes to travel to an object and bounce back. Currently, most LiDAR
Friday, December 13th, 2019
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Matterport, the market leader for spatial data capture, today made Measurement Mode available in Showcase, the company’s web-based client for exploring its 3D spaces. The new functionality gives users the ability to share measurements taken in a Matterport 3D digital twin with anyone, allowing them to accurately measure rooms, windows, doors, or furniture
Friday, December 13th, 2019
Utilities and Telecommunication companies often have limited key asset information about their distribution grid when making critical decisions regarding safety, hardening, optimization, modernization, and design. Additionally, many organizations do not have this asset data formally integrated within their enterprise systems. SPIDAcalc v7.2 – Arrow empowers organizations to centralize a digital twin representation of their physical
Friday, December 13th, 2019
Just like the drone industry itself, the Amsterdam Drone Week is rapidly outgrowing its infancy. Together with the High Level Conference on Drones, co-organized by the European Aviation Authority EASA, the second edition of the event made Amsterdam the epicenter of the global drone industry. In addition, important milestones were achieved in the adoption of
Friday, December 13th, 2019
RALEIGH, N.C. – PrecisionHawk, Inc., a leading provider of drone technology for the enterprise, today announced a $32 million investment from venture investors including Millennium Technology Value Partners, Third Point Ventures, Eastward Capital Partners, and others. The financing will fuel continued innovation in PrecisionHawk’s software tool, PrecisionAnalytics that uses artificial intelligence/machine learning, to help enterprises
Friday, December 13th, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS – DATAMARK® announced two wins in the state of Indiana: Dearborn County and the City of Bloomington selected the company’s Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) geographic information systems (GIS) services and solutions. As Dearborn County begins its transition to NG9-1-1, the county requires support in the preparation and validation of its public safety GIS data.
Friday, December 13th, 2019
The Indiana Office of Secretary of State contracted with Woolpert to build application programming interfaces (APIs) to connect Greenwood, Ind., to the INBiz portal. This connection, which recently went live, streamlines the city’s permitting processes internally and externally. Greenwood employs Cityworks Permits, Licensing and Land (PLL) software. The municipality is the first to integrate its
Friday, December 13th, 2019
WASHINGTON – Radiant Earth Foundation today announced the availability of Microsoft AI for Earth’s Chesapeake Bay Land Cover and SpaceNet’s Roads and Buildings training datasets through Radiant MLHub, an open digital training data repository that debuted earlier this week with “crop type” labels for major crops in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Designed to encourage widespread data
Friday, December 13th, 2019
HERNDON, Va.– HawkEye 360 Inc., the first commercial company to use formation flying satellites to create a new class of radio frequency (RF) data analytics, today announced it has been awarded a contract for a commercial RF survey study from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Through the contract, HawkEye 360 will examine the integration of commercial RF
Friday, December 13th, 2019
The high-resolution lidar data and aerial imagery provided by the firm will be used to analyze and monitor habitually unstable areas and further mitigate the impact of these natural landslides. DUBOIS, Wyo. (Dec. 13, 2019) — Woolpert was contracted by the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) to perform aerial mapping services to assess three landslide-prone
