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Thursday, August 17th, 2017

Hexagon Imagery Program Announces Updates to 2017 Airborne Imagery Collection Plans

(WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Hexagon Imagery Program (HxIP), the premier source for professional airborne imagery provided through the cloud, announced today up-dates for 2017 airborne imagery collection plans of Wide Area Coverage (WAC) at 30-centimetre accuracy and Urban Area Coverage (UAC) at 15-cm accuracy. By the end of 2017, the HxIP will update its content

Thursday, August 17th, 2017

MapD to Collaborate with the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University to Accelerate Research with GPUs

SAN FRANCISCO – MapD Technologies has announced a collaboration with the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University (CGA) to bring the power of GPUs to geospatial analytics. CGA researchers will use MapD’s technology to analyze and visualize multi-billion-row geospatial data sets in real time, searching for new insights into a wide range of natural and

Thursday, August 17th, 2017

INTERGEO – Where the Future is Within your Grasp!

Karlsruhe/Berlin, 17 August 2017 | Visitors, bear in mind: Secure your ticket online and get the early-bird discount. Until 18 August you can save up to 15% of three packed GEO-IT days. “The industry showcases everything from conventional surveying to the entire process chain all the way to visualisation, and software solutions that are also

Thursday, August 17th, 2017

OpenROV Selects RTI’s Technology for Its High-Performing, Commercially Available Underwater Drone

SUNNYVALE, CA – Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity company, today announced that OpenROV, a leading developer of powerful tools for marine intelligence and exploration, has selected RTI Connext® DDS  as the connectivity platform for its commercially available underwater drone, Trident. Historically, advanced underwater drone technology was only available to the

Thursday, August 17th, 2017

Telenav and Toyota Launch Scout GPS Link, Powered by Telenav Enhanced OpenStreetMap, on Toyota Vehicles in Canada

Santa Clara, Calif. – Telenav, Inc. (NASDAQ: TNAV), a leading provider of connected car and location-based platform services, announced today that its Scout® GPS Link navigation app is now available in 2018 Toyota Camry vehicles sold in Canada with select other models to follow. The app is part of Toyota’s next-generation Entune® 3.0 multimedia system’s

Thursday, August 17th, 2017

RIEGL to Exhibit at Geomatics Indaba 2017!

RIEGL, along with one of our local partners in South Africa, Horts Geo-Solutions, will be exhibiting at Geomatics Indaba 2017! Geomatics Indaba 2017 will be held at the Durban ICC in South Africa from August 21-23, 2017. Geomatics Indaba 2017 is billed as Africa’s largest geomatics conference, exhibition, and training event on surveying, geospatial information,

Thursday, August 17th, 2017

DigitalGlobe Announces Four-Year Direct Access Contract with the Australian Department of Defence for Real-time Access to the World’s Highest-Resolution Commercial Satellite Imagery

WESTMINSTER, Colo. – DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), the global leader in Earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced that it signed a Direct Access Program (DAP) contract with the Australian Department of Defence. This multi-year agreement will allow the Australian government to access DigitalGlobe’s industry-leading commercial satellite imaging constellation to support defense

Thursday, August 17th, 2017

Blue Marble Announces Global Mapper Certification Classes in Atlanta and Ottawa

Hallowell, Maine – Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce that it will be offering official Global Mapper certification training classes in Ottawa, Ontario and Atlanta, Georgia in October and November respectively. The course consists of two days of hands-on Global Mapper instruction followed by a third day in which the focus turns to the

Thursday, August 17th, 2017

Registration for TUS Nordics is Now Open

Join the largest Unmanned Systems expo, conference and demonstration in Scandinavia. We are developing the conference together with the University of Southern Denmark, UAS Denmark, UAS Test Center Denmark and other Nordic associations, which provides a unique Nordic perspective Odense Congress Center 10 – 12 October 2017 | Odense, Denmark Register now

Thursday, August 17th, 2017

East View Geospatial Now Offering Finnish Aeronautical Charts in a Variety of Formats

MINNEAPOLIS – East View Geospatial is pleased to announce an agreement with map publisher Karttakeskus to distribute up-to-date aeronautical charts over Finland. Produced by Finavia, the aeronautical mapping authority in Finland, the eight-sheet, 1:500,000 scale set of charts offers consumers the latest, authoritative data for Finland and portions of neighboring countries, including Russia, Sweden, Estonia