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Wednesday, November 30th, 2016

TerraGo Joins Trimble Developer Partner Program and Includes Trimble GNSS Direct SDK in Mobile Products

TerraGo, a pioneer of geospatial collaboration, field data collection and enterprise mobility software, announced today that TerraGo has joined Trimble’s Developer Partner Program and TerraGo’s mobile solutions, TerraGo Edge and TerraGo Magic, now include the Trimble GNSS Direct SDK to deliver high-accuracy positioning data from Trimble survey-grade receivers to iOS® and Android® mobile devices. “We

Wednesday, November 30th, 2016

DisasterLAN 10.4 Focuses on GIS-Based Situation Awareness

BUFFALO, N.Y., Nov. 30, 2016  —  Getting maps and geographic information into the hands of responders quickly is critical to making strategic decisions on resources, personnel, and services.  Buffalo Computer Graphics (BCG), Inc. has addressed this need by making working with maps faster and easier in DisasterLAN (DLAN) 10.4. Central to DLAN 10.4 is an

Wednesday, November 30th, 2016

Esri Offers Customers On-Demand Deployment and Managed Services in the Cloud

Redlands, California—At this year’s AWS re:Invent, global smart-mapping leader Esri announced that customers can now deploy select ArcGIS licenses from Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace instantly, using a pay-per-use pricing model available through hourly or annual subscriptions. Automated software provisioning allows users to launch new projects, respond to emergency requirements, address spikes in usage, and

Wednesday, November 30th, 2016

SSEN to Use Innovative Aerial Scanning to Improve Electricity Network Resilience

Nov 30, 2016 – SSEN is currently working with NM Group to survey its network using a fleet of LiDAR equipped aircraft to model 63,000km of power lines in its Scottish and English operational areas. The distribution network operator (DNO) is utilising NM Group’s LiDAR analytics to scan its power lines to check for any

Tuesday, November 29th, 2016

LIDARUSA Chooses Global Mapper to Analyze Stream Channel Morphology for Erosion Control

Hallowell, Maine – November 29, 2016– Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce that LIDARUSA has selected Global Mapper and the accompanying LiDAR Module for processing high-volume point cloud data as part of a stream study project spread across several non-contiguous areas in Western Tennessee. The project involves the collection of very high density point

Tuesday, November 29th, 2016

Premier LiDAR Conference & Expo to Explore the Newest LiDAR Technologies, including Geiger-Mode, Single-Photon and UAV/UAS

November 29, 2016(Portland, Maine, USA) – The organizers of International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF), the world’s leading technical conference and expo covering the newest airborne, terrestrial and underwater LiDAR as well as emerging remote-sensing and data collection tools and technologies, announced the 2017 conference program and presenters today. “The 2017 conference is a must-attend for

Tuesday, November 29th, 2016

Introducing OSMLanduse.org : OpenStreetMap Landuse Landcover (LULC) WebMap is Online

Today a new global WebMap prototype “OSMLanduse.org” has been launched by GIScience Research Group Heidelberg. The map provides worldwide Landuse/Landcover information on the basis of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. This is based on our earlier work on testing the suitability of OpenStreetMap for deriving landuse and landcover information (LULC). LULC data is highly relevant for many

Tuesday, November 29th, 2016

Esri Announces Additional Presenters for Geodesign Summit 2017

Redlands, California—November 29, 2016—Global smart mapping leader Esri today announced that 10 additional speakers have joined the eighth annual Geodesign Summit, to be held January 24–26, 2017, in Redlands, California. The Geodesign Summit is a forum that brings together planning and design principles from academia, commercial design firms, nonprofit organizations, and government. Geodesign answers the

Tuesday, November 29th, 2016

SimActive Enables Processing in the Cloud

Montreal, Canada, November 29th, 2016 – SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce that processing in the cloud is now officially supported by Correlator3D™.  Users can subscribe to an online computing service, such as Amazon EC2, and run Correlator3D™ on a virtual machine.   The main advantage is the capability

Tuesday, November 29th, 2016

RapidScat Mission to Monitor Ocean Winds Ends

On Sept. 21, 2014, NASA scientists and engineers launched RapidScat toward the orbiting International Space Station, 250 miles above Earth’s surface, with a few objectives in mind: improve weather forecasting on Earth, provide cross-calibration for all international satellites that monitor ocean winds, and improve estimates of how ocean winds change throughout the day. Following the