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Monday, February 26th, 2018

Cubic Strengthens C4ISR Business with Acquisition of MotionDSP

SAN DIEGO – Cubic Corporation (NYSE: CUB) today announced the acquisition of MotionDSP, a leading provider of advanced image processing software for public safety, security and government applications. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, MotionDSP further enhances Cubic Mission Solutions’ (CMS) capabilities in real-time video processing. MotionDSP enhances the quality of real-time videos, while servicing a wide

Monday, February 26th, 2018

Geomni Launches New Mobile App for Ground Imagery and Drone Inspections

Lehi, Utah – Geomni, a Verisk business (Nasdaq:VRSK), has launched its new mobile app for ground imagery and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, inspections. The Geomni mobile app enables users to collect imagery and other data directly with their mobile devices or to conduct complete UAV inspections with compatible DJI drones. “The idea behind

Monday, February 26th, 2018

Cambridge-Based GeoSpock Secures an Additional $6.6M in Closing Its Series A Funding From Investors

GeoSpock® – the extreme-scale data integration platform that provides analytics, builds insight, and enables predictions across space and time – today announced that it has raised an additional $6.6M in closing its Series A funding round, bringing the total raised to $13.2M. The round was led by Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) with existing investors Parkwalk

Monday, February 26th, 2018

EARTH-i Receives £2.7 Million from UK Government to Improve Crop Yield for African Coffee Farmers

EARTH-i, one of Europe’s most prominent New Space companies, has been awarded a grant of £2.7 million from the UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme, which supports UK space firms tackling global challenges. The grant will enable Earth-i to launch the ACCORD programme in Kenya and Rwanda. ACCORD has been specifically developed to help smallholder

Monday, February 26th, 2018

EuroGeographics Announces New Additions to Open Data for 2018

EuroGeographics has released a new version of EuroGlobalMap, its open data created from official national sources. Forty-five members of the Association for the European National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registry Authorities have contributed to EuroGlobalMap, which now includes fields for the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) within the updated transport theme, specifically links for railways (RailrdL)

Monday, February 26th, 2018

World’s Most Advanced Weather Satellite Imager from Harris Corporation Set to Launch March 1; Will Cover Western US

MELBOURNE, Fla.- Harris Corporation’s (NYSE:HRS) second Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), built for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) weather-monitoring mission, is scheduled to launch March 1 on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES). The ABI will be controlled by the Harris-built enterprise ground system and deliver three times the amount of spectral coverage in

Friday, February 23rd, 2018

Leica Geosystems Sets New Benchmark for Laser Visibility

(Heerbrugg, Switzerland) – Leica Geosystems, industry leader in reality capture technology, announced today the new Lino series of cross and point line lasers, specially created to ensure outstanding laser visibility. The clever power concept with Li-ion rechargeable batteries enables users to work without inconvenient interruptions. Thanks to the ingenious adapter concept with its strong magnets,

Friday, February 23rd, 2018

Wood Wins Government Backing to Bring Space Technology to Nuclear Decommissioning

Wood is leading research to make nuclear decommissioning safer, faster and more cost-effective by innovatively applying new technologies developed in space exploration, car production and medicine. The company has secured approximately £1.5m funding from the UK’s government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and Innovate UK after winning a

Wednesday, February 21st, 2018

GeoSLAM to Demo Time & Cost Saving 3D Mobile Laser Scanners for Construction Applications at 2018 AGC Convention

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, U.K. – GeoSLAM will demonstrate how its ZEB-REVO RT handheld laser scanner can be used to slash the time and cost required for complex indoor 3D mapping on construction sites at the 2018 Association of General Contractors of America (AGC) Convention. The conference and exhibition will be held February 26-28 in New Orleans.  

Wednesday, February 21st, 2018

Topcon Acquires ClearEdge3D, a Technology Leader in 3D Modeling and Construction Verification Software

TOKYO, Japan  – Topcon Corporation, a world leader in positioning instruments for survey and construction, through its American subsidiary, has acquired all the outstanding shares of ClearEdge3D, Inc., a recognized technology leader in the engineering and construction software industry. ClearEdge3D’s EdgeWise software dramatically speeds as-built modeling workflows by utilizing automated feature extraction algorithms and other