Thursday, June 28th, 2018
ZURICH – Today skyguide, the Swiss air navigation service provider, and AirMap, the world’s leading airspace management platform for drones, successfully demonstrated Swiss U-space services nationwide in Switzerland. The demonstration was part of the Drone Innovators Network event put on by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in collaboration with the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport,
Thursday, June 28th, 2018
CHICAGO – Boeing today announced its investment in Matternet, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup pioneering safe, on-demand unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery operations in urban environments. Matternet’s advanced logistics platform – combined with Boeing’s expertise in complex logistics, integration and manufacturing capabilities – will further enable reliable, efficient cargo air transportation. Matternet became the
Thursday, June 28th, 2018
SARATOGA, Calif. – Digamma.ai is proud to announce a partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey to apply state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms towards the study of landslides and other natural hazards. “The purpose of this project is to produce algorithms that are capable of automatically recognizing hazardous landscape changes through the interpretation of remote sensing, LiDAR, drone
Thursday, June 28th, 2018
CORNISH, Maine – SpatialTEQ Inc., publisher of North America’s most popular business mapping software, today announces the release of Map Business Online(MBO) 5.2, a variety of enhancements and updates including the addition of a congressional district map layer expanding Map Business Online’s location-based business analysis capability into the realm of politics. Congressional Districts Map color-shaded by
Thursday, June 28th, 2018
CALGARY, Alberta – TECTERRA, a government-funded not-for-profit, is proud to announce LEAP, a brand new program designed to fund the development and commercialization of technologies with the potential to transform an industry. “Alberta companies are creating innovative technologies that have the potential to significantly alter the trajectory of whole industries or markets,” says Jonathan Neufeld, CEO
Thursday, June 28th, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO – MapD Technologies, the Extreme Analytics™ platform provider, today announced the launch of MapD 4.0, a major leap forward in large-scale, interactive geospatial analytics. With native support for geospatial data tightly integrated with a powerful GPU-based rendering engine, MapD 4.0 enables unparalleled visual interactivity for large-scale location intelligence use cases, such as visually uncovering
Thursday, June 28th, 2018
SEATTLE & LONG BEACH, Calif.- Spaceflight, the company reinventing the model for launching small satellites into space, and Virgin Orbit today announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a mission to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in 2019. Virgin Orbit’s Cosmic Girl, a dedicated 747-400 carrier aircraft, will carry LauncherOne (which will house
Thursday, June 28th, 2018
Dedrone, the market and technology leader in airspace security, announced that its team of Echodyne Corporation, Squarehead Technologies and Battelle, won first place at ThunderDrone’s “Game of Drones” outdoor demonstration at Nellis Air Force Base and AFWERX enclave, June 18-20. Hosted by AFWERX, Team Dedrone bested five other teams in the last of three ThunderDrone rapid
Thursday, June 28th, 2018
Redlands, California—Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, has publishedGIS for Surface Water: Using the National Hydrography Dataset, the only book of its kind detailing how to use geographic information system (GIS) technology to visualize and analyze the dataset. Written by Jeff Simley, an award-winning cartographer and the former lead of the Hydrography Program at
Thursday, June 28th, 2018
SUNNYVALE, Calif., — Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) announced today a suite of solutions that enhances productivity and efficiency for surveyors and professionals working on underground tunneling projects. The solutions include new hardware and software for capturing highly accurate data in tunnels where dirt, dust, water and machinery provide a challenging work environment. The new line of products
