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Friday, February 9th, 2018

Teledyne Optech Titan Lidar Enables Discovery of Extended Mayan Ruins in Guatemala

Teledyne Optech’s Titan sensor was used by the University of Houston’s National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) to reveal extensive Mayan ruins in Guatemala. Lidar technology was able to identify hundreds of previously unknown structures, including raised highways, and complex irrigation and terracing systems.   After the collapse of the Mayan civilization, their cities

Friday, February 9th, 2018

Esri Releases Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS

REDLANDS, Calif. —Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, today announced that it has released a brand-new web browser application, allowing users to create reporting dashboards that use charts, gauges, maps, and other visual elements to reflect the status and performance of people, services, assets, and events in real time. Using dynamic dashboards through Operations

Friday, February 9th, 2018

Tersus Makes Debut at IGNSS in Australia and Showcases High Precision GNSS Receivers

Sydney – Tersus GNSS Inc. (“Tersus”), a global GNSS RTK solution provider for enterprise businesses, today at the International Global Navigation Satellite Systems IGNSS 2018 conference in Sydney made debut and introduced David, NeoRTK and MatrixRTK, three versions of high precision GNSS receivers.   David is a GNSS receiver to cater the increasing needs of

Thursday, February 8th, 2018

Leica Geosystems Introduces Latest in Linear Mode LiDAR

Heerbrugg, Switzerland – Leica Geosystems, industry leader in measurement technology, announced today the launch of TerrainMapper, its next generation linear mode LiDAR system. As part of the RealTerrain airborne LiDAR mapping solution, the new sensor builds on Leica Geosystems sensor technology and is supported by the HxMap unified multi-sensor post-processing workflow. TerrainMapper enables users to

Thursday, February 8th, 2018

Trimble Announces New MX9 Mobile Mapping System for Surveying, Engineering and Geospatial Professionals

SUNNYVALE, Calif —Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the release of the Trimble® MX9 mobile mapping solution. The Trimble MX9 combines a vehicle-mounted mobile lidar system, multi-camera imaging and field software for efficient, precise and high-volume data capture for a broad range of mobile mapping applications such as road surveys, topographic mapping, 3D-modeling and asset management.

Thursday, February 8th, 2018

Delair Introduces Industry’s Most Advanced Fixed-Wing UAV for LiDAR-Based Aerial Surveying and 3d Mapping

DENVER, Colo. – Delair, a leading supplier of drone solutions for commercial industries, today introduced the next generation of its high-performance Delair DT26X LiDAR UAV, the industry’s first long-range fixed wing drone to combine highly accurate Light Distance and Ranging (LiDAR) sensing capabilities with an integrated high resolution RGB (red, green, blue) camera, dramatically increasing

Tuesday, February 6th, 2018

Reducing the Footprint of a Greenhouse Gas More Potent than Carbon Dioxide

USC scientists have unlocked a new, more-efficient pathway for converting methane—a potent gas contributing to climate change—directly into basic chemicals for manufacturing plastics, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals. In research published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, chemists at USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute say they have found a way to help utilize this abundant

Tuesday, February 6th, 2018

EarthSense Appoints Thomas Hall as Managing Director

EarthSense Systems, the air quality monitoring, measuring and modelling specialist, has appointed Thomas Hall as Managing Director. A remote sensing specialist with over 19 years’ experience in the geospatial industry, Hall has a proven track record of developing emerging technology for wide market adoption and commercialisation. EarthSense recently featured in a BBC TV documentary about

Tuesday, February 6th, 2018

DJI To Sponsor AUVSI XPONENTIAL’s Inaugural Humanitarian Awards

AUVSI XPONENTIAL, the event that brings more than 8,500 unmanned technology industry leaders and forward-thinking users from the defense and commercial sectors together to learn the latest on policy, business solutions and technology applications, is pleased to announce that industry leader DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, will sponsor the

Tuesday, February 6th, 2018

GfK Releases New Digital Maps for Australia

GfK has released a new, completely overhauled map edition for Australia. Along with more detailed coastlines, the new digital maps reflect the latest status of the country’s more than 57,000 statistical areas and 357,000 mesh blocks. Detailed, up-to-date digital maps are an important prerequisite for location-based market analyses. GfK’s Australia Edition includes 20 updated digital