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Friday, October 7th, 2016

2D Maps Take a Hike – Melown Technologies Launches Web-based 3D Mapping Platform

PRAGUE —   Melown Technologies announces the launch of Melown.com, a very ambitious web based visualization platform for 2D and 3D geospatial data, as a way to create beautiful 3D maps using open and/or personal data. Melown combines a powerful JavaScript API with tens of terabytes of open and premium data available instantly from the cloud. 

Friday, October 7th, 2016

WorldDEM Now Available Worldwide. First Truly Global Elevation Dataset Completed

Airbus Defence and Space announced that customers can now be served with WorldDEM data for any point on Earth. WorldDEM is a disruptive Digital Elevation Model (DEM), whose accuracy and quality surpass that of any global satellite-based elevation model available today. Setting a new standard, WorldDEM is the first global homogeneous, single-source, high-precision DEM. Following

Friday, October 7th, 2016

Trimble Unveils SX10 Scanning Total Station for Surveying, Engineering and Geospatial Professionals

SUNNYVALE, Calif., – Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) unveiled today a next-generation survey instrument—the Trimble® SX10 Scanning Total Station. It merges high-speed 3D scanning, enhanced Trimble VISION™ imaging technology and high-accuracy total station measurements into familiar field and office workflows for surveyors. The innovative solution provides surveyors and geospatial professionals with the capabilities and versatility to handle

Friday, October 7th, 2016

Esri Tech Empowers WH Opportunity Project

When the White House launched the Opportunity Project in March, the Administration issued a call to action to private industry to help the government get its data into the hands of citizens in a usable way.  While opening government data has been a priority for this Administration, there has been a real need for creating

Thursday, October 6th, 2016

Historic Water Scarcity and Drought Summit

Brisbane – On 10 October 2016 in Brisbane, Australia, 200 leaders from the public and private sector, including government ministers, business and civil society leaders, and leading scientists will take part in a historic summit on water scarcity and drought. Driven both by climate change and poor water management, droughts are becoming more frequent and water

Thursday, October 6th, 2016

WOC Sustainable Ocean Summit (SOS) Attracts High Level Opening Speakers

The Opening Plenary of the World Ocean Council (WOC) Sustainable Ocean Summit (SOS), Rotterdam, 30 Nov-2 Dec 2016, will include: • Erik Solheim, Director, U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP); U.N. Under-Secretary-General • Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary, UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) • Joao Aguiar Machado, Director General, DG MARE, European Commission Additional industry leaders and senior

Thursday, October 6th, 2016

senseFly to Unveil New RTK/PPK-Ready, Large Coverage Mapping Drone at INTERGEO 2016

Cheseaux-Lausanne, Switzerland – senseFly, the world’s first choice producer of professional mapping drones, will introduce its next-generation fixed-wing system for survey-grade photogrammetric mapping, the eBee Plus, at INTERGEO 2016 on Oct. 11 in Hamburg, Germany.   “The eBee Plus system is the ultimate tool for geospatial organisations that demand photogrammetric-quality mapping,” said senseFly’s CEO, Jean-Christophe

Wednesday, October 5th, 2016

GeoSLAM and Blackdog Robotics Sign Partnership Agreement to Supply Unmanned Mobile Indoor Mapping Solutions

GeoSLAM Ltd, the UK based pioneers of SLAM based mobile indoor mapping systems, and Blackdog Robotics, a leading US manufacturer of modular robots, have joined forces to offer Law enforcement, first responders, and the Military a unique rapid indoor mapping solution. Mark Reid, COO at GeoSLAM “Since the launch of the ZEB-REVO system in March

Wednesday, October 5th, 2016

RIEGL to Exhibit and Present at INTERGEO 2016!

Orlando, FL – INTERGEO is the world’s leading conference trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation, and land management. It is one of the key platforms for industry dialogue around the world. INTERGEO covers a wide variety of fields, ranging from surveying, geoinformation, remote sensing and photogrammetry to complementary solutions and technologies. INTERGEO 2016 will be held

Wednesday, October 5th, 2016

Teledyne Optech to Introduce New Static and Mobile Surveying Solutions at INTERGEO 2016

Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce that it will launch brand-new survey instruments and workflow solutions for the productive and accurate collection of 3D spatial data on October 11-13 at INTERGEO 2016 in Hamburg, Germany. These will include new solutions for survey-grade static and mobile mapping, as well as new efficiency feature sets for Teledyne