Tuesday, February 6th, 2018
WATERLOO, Ontario – SkyWatch Space Applications Inc. (“SkyWatch”), a Waterloo-based startup, announced today it has raised $4M CAD to continue the development of the world’s largest aggregation and distribution platform for satellite data. Their innovative distribution platform, EarthCache, allows companies to cost-effectively integrate Earth observation satellite data into their applications, while empowering satellite
Tuesday, February 6th, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO – DroneDeploy, the leading drone mapping software platform in the world, today announced the launch of a drone solution for the roofing industry that automatically generates accurate and comprehensive roof analytics. For the first time, roofing, solar, and insurance companies can easily and affordably inspect and measure roofs with industry-leading accuracy. DroneDeploy’s roofing
Tuesday, February 6th, 2018
PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP Inc. today introduced HP DesignJet T1700 printers, next-generation 44-inch solutions for CAD and geographic information system (GIS) workgroups to produce highly accurate documents and maps with powerful processing and a new level of security. New added features on the HP DesignJet T1700 make it the most secure large format workgroup
Tuesday, February 6th, 2018
SHENZHEN, China – SkyPixel, the world’s most popular aerial photography community run in cooperation with DJI, today announced the winners of its 2017 Photo Story Contest. The contest, which ran from October to December 2017, received over 44,000 submissions from participants in 141 countries, across the categories of Landscape, Portrait and Story. The Grand Prize
Thursday, February 1st, 2018
Orbit GT is happy to release the new 3D Mapping Content Manager v18. “The Content Manager is arguably the most unique yet extremely powerful product in our 3D Mapping portfolio,”, says Peter Bonne, CEO of Orbit GT. “As version 18 bundles all the expertise and technology to support the various types of 3D mapping techniques,
Thursday, February 1st, 2018
FORT MYERS, Fla. – Soaring Sky, a premiere drone service and training company, is working with insurance companies nationwide to improve disaster management and structural inspections. The use of the latest drone technology is safer, more efficient, and more cost-effective than traditional methods. “The aerial imagery allows adjusters more time to analyze and assess damage, while
Thursday, February 1st, 2018
SANTA MONICA, Calif. – AirMap, the world’s leading airspace management platform for drones, today announced a feature that makes LAANC, the Low-Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability, available to the entire drone ecosystem. With the FAA’s LAANC initiative, drone operators can apply for digital authorization to fly in U.S. controlled airspace near select FAA facilities. Drone
Thursday, February 1st, 2018
Jeff Lovin, Woolpert senior vice president and director of Government Solutions, has been elected vice-president of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS). ASPRS, also known as The Imaging and Geospatial Information Society, was founded in 1934 and serves more than 7,000 professional members around the world. Lovin, who has served on ASPRS
Thursday, February 1st, 2018
Atlas Dynamics (www.atlasdynamics.eu), a next generation aerospace company providing autonomous UAV solutions, today announced it has entered a partnership with Luxriot (www.luxriot.com), developer of top-quality, high-performance Luxriot Evo Video Management Software, to develop drone-based solutions for the defense, security and first response markets. “These are three key markets that are experiencing a significant increase in
Thursday, February 1st, 2018
Australia: Australia-based intelligent mapping solutions provider, MapData Services, has annonced a partnership with the Takor Group. The partnership allows MapData Services to deliver Hema Base Maps into iOS based professional mobile mapping application to Mappt Elements. The latest offering from MapData Services and the Takor Group brings the Hema Base Map with extensive regional and outback
