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Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

ILMF 2018: Call for Papers Deadline is August 14

The 18th Annual International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF), taking place in Denver, Colorado, USA, February 5-7, 2018, has announced a Call for Papers and invites interested parties to submit their abstracts by August 14, 2017. ILMF is a technical conference and exhibition focused on surveying and mapping technologies including aerial, mobile and bathymetric lidar as

Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

NGA Continues Efforts to Meet the Increasing Demand for Geospatial Imagery and Automation

Alexandria, VA – The geospatial intelligence community workforce is growing at an ever-increasing rate. The value of the work being performed by the GEOINT community is developing parallel to the workforce itself. Efforts of lead GEOINT agencies, such as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), in the fields of exploitation of

Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

Boundless to Sponsor, Speak and Exhibit at Upcoming Open Source Geospatial Conference FOSS4G

NEW YORK, NY – Boundless, the leader in open GIS, today announced its presence at FOSS4G, taking place August 14-19 in Boston. The company is a gold sponsor of the event and will be presenting 18 talks on a variety of topics. Boundless will also be demonstrating its platform at booth #103. Highlights of planned

Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

Orbit GT and ViaTech, Norway, sign Reseller Agreement

Lokeren, Belgium – Orbit GT is happy to announce that ViaTech, Norway, has joined as Authorized Reseller of Orbit GT Mobile Mapping products. “We’re very pleased to join with ViaTech as our new Reseller”, says Peter Bonne, CEO of Orbit GT. “ViaTech is a well known and respected company in Norway and beyond.  We’re looking forward

Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

MAPPS Elects New Officers, Directors

Reston, VA – MAPPS, the national association of private sector geospatial firms, announced today the slate of new officers and directors elected for 2017-2018. Brian Raber, Merrick & Company (Greenwood Village, CO), assumed the office of President of MAPPS for a 2-year term. Raber succeeds Susan Marlow, Stantec (Nashville, TN). For the past year he

Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

Orbit GT updates 3D Mapping Cloud with Oblique Imagery Support

Lokeren, Belgium – Orbit GT launches a new update for it’s SaaS platform www.3dmapping.cloud “After support for Mobile Mapping and UAS Mapping content, we now proudly announce the support for Oblique Imagery and Aerial Point Clouds.  From now on, anyone owning Oblique data can upload this data and share in seconds.”, says Peter Bonne, CEO of

Friday, August 4th, 2017

Keynote Speakers to Highlight the 2017 National GIS in Transit Conference

Des Plaines, IL: URISA, the National Center for Transit Research,  and the Transportation Research Board (TRB) are pleased to highlight the featured keynote speakers for the 10th National GIS in Transit Conference, on September 6-8, 2017, in Washington, DC. Michael Ratcliffe is Assistant Division Chief for Geographic Standards, Criteria, Research, and Quality in the Census

Friday, August 4th, 2017

AssetWorks Adds MDM Capabilities to Family of FiRE Mobile Apps

SAN ANTONIO – AssetWorks is pleased to announce that with the release of version 9.0 of its flagship AiM Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) it has added the ability to manage and administer FiRE mobile apps with an MDM (Mobile Device Management) system, which automatically pushes the proper version of software out to users in

Friday, August 4th, 2017

Measure Acquires Pilatus Unmanned, Adds Josh Kornoff to Team

WASHINGTON – Measure, the largest U.S. provider of drone solutions for enterprise customers, today announced the expansion of its drone engineering and equipment sales capabilities with the acquisition of Pilatus Unmanned. Josh Kornoff, Pilatus Unmanned CEO and a pioneer in the commercial drone industry, will head Measure’s engineering team. The acquisition marks the latest chapter in

Friday, August 4th, 2017

R Site Scan Processing Now Powered by Pix4D

3DR, makers of Site Scan, one of the leading drone data platform for engineering and construction, announced they have integrated the Pix4D photogrammetry engine as their core processing software to enable customers to get processed data 3X faster. Site Scan customers can now process 5X more photos at once—2,500 in total. The addition of the