Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
East View Geospatial (EVG) is pleased to announce an agreement with Kartverket, the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority, to offer digital nautical charts of Norwegian waters. This agreement expands upon the existing EVG-Kartverket partnership, allowing EVG to distribute GeoTIFF charts and S57 vector data in addition to EVG’s print-on-demand services for Kartverket charts. As Norway’s
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft Corp. is launching Azure Location Based Services to offer enterprise customers location capabilities. Azure Location Based Services are integrated directly into Azure, enabling enterprise customers to add Location Based Services to their existing Azure cloud solutions with the assurance that it meets Azure’s world- class standards of privacy, compliance, scalability, management
Monday, December 4th, 2017
REDLANDS, Calif.— Esri, the world leader in spatial analytics, today announced it will be donating personal use licenses of its ArcGIS software for each GISCorps volunteer who takes a GIS Service Pledge to volunteer for a good cause. GISCorps is a program of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) and has been providing
Monday, December 4th, 2017
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The GIS / Geotech EDU user community, in particular, higher learning, has been very active with Admin Tools for ArcGIS Online since the launch in 2015. In fact, the Geo EDU community is likely the most passionate and appreciative user base. To date, hundreds of High Schools, Colleges and Universities around the
Monday, December 4th, 2017
Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of version 19 of the Global Mapper LiDAR Module. This comprehensive point cloud processing tool introduces a powerful new function for creating a 3D point cloud from an array of overlapping images. Ideally suited for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operators, this Pixels-to-Points tool effectively transforms simple
Tuesday, November 28th, 2017
A leading geospatial technology specialist is launching a campaign to give free access to LiDAR data in order to showcase the capabilities of a new generation of mobile mapping systems. 3D Laser Mapping will be offering open access to point cloud data which can be viewed and manipulated using GIS software. This information can be
Tuesday, November 28th, 2017
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is calling for interested participants in its ‘Geospatial to the Edge’ Interoperability Plugfest. OGC Plugfests, initiatives of the OGC Innovation Program, provide a venue for sponsors and technology implementers to come together to solve geospatial interoperability challenges in a collaborative, agile process. A plugfest is organized around scenarios and a
Tuesday, November 28th, 2017
(MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, 28 November 2017) – LISTECH, a world leader in development of smart software solutions for the surveying, civil engineering and land related information industries, today announced the latest version of its geospatial software LISTECH Neo. The updated geospatial software now offers Least Squares adjustment of measurements for traverse and network frameworks, and supports
Tuesday, November 28th, 2017
MCLEAN, Va., Nov. 28, 2017 – Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:IRDM) announced today that all 10 Iridium® NEXT satellites for its fourth launch are now in processing at SpaceX’s west coast launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. This launch will mark the midway point of Iridium’s launch campaign with SpaceX, and is the
Tuesday, November 28th, 2017
The European Commission has awarded Europe’s most promising digital innovations emerging from EU funded research and innovation projects. CATEC from Spain won the 2017 Innovation Radar Prize for its advanced aerial contact drones. Seven other EU-funded innovators also secured prizes at the awards ceremony. The 2017 Innovation Radar Prize has been awarded to CATEC, which
