Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
REDLANDS, Calif.— Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced that its founder and president Jack Dangermond received the royal Dutch decoration, Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. Jan Hamming, Mayor of Zaanstad, awarded the accolade to Dangermond on behalf of King Willem-Alexander. The decoration was bestowed upon Dangermond in recognition of his extraordinary
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
Two awardees have been recognized with the 2018 William T. Pecora Award for achievements in Earth remote sensing. Barbara J. Ryan has been honored for her many contributions, including promoting public access to Earth observation data. The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) international team has been recognized for significant contributions to advancing atmospheric monitoring for the
Monday, April 29th, 2019
Karlsruhe/Munich, 29 April 2019. Municipal authorities are well aware when autumn starts. In the future, they will also know exactly where in a city each and every tree is located, its height and trunk diameter, and even the amount of leaves it will shed – useful information from a waste disposal perspective. This is just
Monday, April 29th, 2019
SAN JOSE, Calif.- Frank Bertini, UAV and Robotics Business Manager at Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (booth #1420), will deliver a featured presentation on the business cases for 3D lidar technology in mobile mapping applications at AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2019, taking place on April 29 to May 2, at McCormick Place in Chicago. Bertini will discuss revenue-generating strategies
Monday, April 29th, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO – Iris Automation, an artificial intelligence and safety avionics company, today announced the launch of Casia – the first commercially available computer vision detect-and-avoid solution to enable Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations for autonomous vehicles. For the first time, there’s a system that allows an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) to truly understand
Monday, April 29th, 2019
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio – Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Lt. Governor Jon Husted, and Major General William Cooley, Commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, announced today that the Ohio Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center and AFRL will begin testing groundbreaking aviation technology at the Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport. This month, the
Monday, April 29th, 2019
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill – CompTIA, the leading trade association for the global technology industry, said today it will spotlight its growing presence in the commercial drone market at next week’s AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2019 conference in Chicago. CompTIA (Booth #4822) will unveil new standards and best practices for the drone market; preview new research on business and partnership
Monday, April 29th, 2019
SAN JOSE, Calif.- Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced an agreement with Nikon Corporation, under which Sendai Nikon Corporation, a Nikon subsidiary, will manufacture lidar sensors for Velodyne with plans to start mass production in the second half of 2019. The partnership cements Velodyne’s manufacturing plan and expands its lead in the global lidar sensor market.
Monday, April 29th, 2019
WESTMINSTER, CO – Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development, Inc. (TRI-AD), Toyota’s automated driving software development company, Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), a global technology innovator powering the new space economy, and NTT DATA Corporation, a leading IT services provider, today announced they will collaborate on a proof of concept to build automated high-definition (HD) maps for autonomous
Monday, April 29th, 2019
Orlando, FL – RIEGL will be attending and exhibiting at AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2019! AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2019 will take place from April 29th-May 2nd, 2019, at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. RIEGL will be exhibiting at Booth 817 during AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2019. Be sure to come by to meet with our team of RIEGL experts, along with
