Thursday, May 4th, 2017
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Orbital Insight, a geospatial analytics and software company, today announced it has closed a $50 million Series C round led by existing investor Sequoia Capital, with participation from new investors Envision Ventures, Balyasny Asset Management, Geodesic Capital, ITOCHU Corporation and Intellectus Partners. Previous investors GV, Lux Capital, and CME Ventures participated
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
SANTIAGO, Chile — Microdrones is excited to announce that GEOCOM, Chile’s leading provider of geospatial innovation, is now offering Microdrones unmanned aerial mapping solutions to their customers. Microdrones developed the world’s first commercial quadcopter and their mdMapper solutions lead the industry for aerial surveying and mapping. “Microdrones has an excellent product line. We’ve investigated multiple
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
SAN JOSE, Calif. — JD Events, producers of Drone World Expo, is pleased to announce the launch of Commercial Drone Week, which will include meetings, conferences, networking, tours, demos and receptions to continue face to face conversations around its flagship event. The first annual Commercial Drone Week already has a dozen concurrent events planned, ranging
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
Hallowell, Maine – Blue Marble Geographics ( bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the launch of its new academic licensing program with a new web page now available with detailed information and an online application form ( www.bluemarblegeo.com/academic). This pilot program allows institutes of higher education in the U.S. and Canada to deploy both Global Mapper
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
AAM was recently awarded the highly esteemed Export Award at the Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards (APSEA) for industry leading work to generate a 3D national map of Singapore in support of the city state’s Smart Nation agenda. In 2014 AAM was commissioned to complete this challenging project by the Singapore Land Authority (SLA). According
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
ARMONK, N.Y.– IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that its inventors have been granted a patent for transferring packages between drones during flight. The invention described in US Patent No. 9,561,852: In flight transfer of packages between aerial drones helps to extend the range of drones that are delivering packages from a warehouse to a customer’s
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
MIAMI — UAV Turbines, Inc (UAVT) and Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation (NASC) are pleased to announce that an ArcticShark aircraft fitted with a UAVT micro-turboprop propulsion system will be on display at the Dallas AUVSI Xponential show from May 8-11. As previously disclosed, UAVT and NASC have formed a partnership to demonstrate flight of a
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
MINNETONKA, Minnesota, USA – East View Geospatial (EVG), a provider of content-rich cartographic products, is building a library of highly accurate geospatial training data for use in supervised machine learning applications. EVG is offering at no charge a sample foundation geospatial training data set developed during an R&D pilot in Papua New Guinea. “Machine learning
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
Herndon, Virginia — The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) recently confirmed new keynote speakers for its GEOINT 2017 Symposium, which will take place June 4-7 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. The theme of this year’s Symposium is “Advancing Capabilities to Meet Emerging Threats.” Recently added speakers include: COL
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
Washington, D.C. – TerraGo, a pioneer of geospatial collaboration, field data collection and enterprise mobility software, announces the availability of TerraGo Edge version 4.0, offering a completely redesigned app based on customer feedback, field user observations and task-centered design cycles, as well as a host of new features including the addition of Google® and Apple®
