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Wednesday, October 5th, 2016

USGS Assesses Mineral Potential for Sagebrush Habitats in Six Western States

USGS has completed a comprehensive assessment and inventory of potential mineral resources covering approximately 10 million acres of Federal and adjacent lands in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming. The assessment, conducted at the request of the Bureau of Land Management, ranked the mineral potential in select areas of these states along a gradient of no

Wednesday, October 5th, 2016

DTS and SmarterBetterCities Partnership Extends 3D to Asset Management

San Francisco, Calif. – DTS and SmarterBetterCities are pleased to announce a partnership that brings 3D tools and sharing to asset management. The world is not flat. Why run an asset management system that only allows you to track work management, perform condition assessments and generate projects for a capital improvement plan in the second

Tuesday, October 4th, 2016

Drone Adds IBM Watson for Cognitive Inspection

IBM and Aerialtronics introduced the first commercial drones featuring cognitive computing capabilities from the IBM Watson Internet of Things (IoT) Platform on IBM Cloud. Aerialtronics vehicles provide inspection services for global organizations across multiple industries, from monitoring city traffic patterns to inspecting wind turbines, oil rigs and cell-tower optimization. Aerialtronics’ commercial drones are the first

Tuesday, October 4th, 2016

Arithmetica’s Latest SphereVision 360 Imaging Software Takes an Interactive View

New 360 degree imaging software from Arithmetica provides an easy way to combine 360 degree video trails with maps, plans and layouts to produce a fully immersive and interactive view.  Arithmetica’s SphereVision Project Builder features a more refined and streamlined workflow, enabling users to easily bridge the gap between 360 degree content and site or

Tuesday, October 4th, 2016

Autodesk and SBS Form Strategic Alliance

Lakewood, CO – Spatial Business Systems (SBS) has formed a strategic alliance with Autodesk to provide an expanded set of solutions for the utility industry.  Through the alliance, SBS will be responsible for future development, support and licensing of Autodesk® Substation Design for Inventor®, Autodesk® Substation Design for Electrical and AutoCAD ® Utility Design (AUD)

Tuesday, October 4th, 2016

Trimble Changes Name to Reflect Company’s Technology Evolution

SUNNYVALE, Calif. —  Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that is has formally changed its company name from Trimble Navigation Limited to Trimble Inc. In addition, the company has completed its reincorporation from the State of California to the State of Delaware. “Trimble’s name change reflects the evolution from our origins as a GPS products company

Tuesday, October 4th, 2016

Voyager Search Named One of 15 Finalists in National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Disparate Data Challenge

REDLANDS, CA – Voyager Search, a global leader in geospatial, enterprise search that finds and delivers more than 1,800 different content types, announced today it has been named one of 15 finalists in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) first ever Disparate Data Challenge (DDC). Voyager’s submission, dubbed the “NGA Data Depot,” solved the issues laid

Tuesday, October 4th, 2016

New Esri Workbook Teaches Web GIS App-Building Skills

Redlands, California—The demand for geographic information system (GIS) apps designed for use on the web and mobile devices is skyrocketing, fueling the need for people trained to build and deploy Web GIS apps.A new workbook from Esri, Getting to Know Web GIS, second edition, will give people of all skill levels the knowledge to build

Tuesday, October 4th, 2016

Teledyne Optech Teams Up with The Ocean Cleanup to Study the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce it has partnered with The Ocean Cleanup in their Aerial Expedition research mission, where the Optech CZMIL (Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar) successfully carried out the first in a series of low-speed, low-altitude survey flights across the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Every year, about eight million tons of

Monday, October 3rd, 2016

TerraGo Edge Delivers Again with Customer-Driven Enhancements to ArcGIS and Platform Integration, Mobile Forms, Drone Imagery and More

TerraGo, a pioneer of geospatial collaboration, field data collection and enterprise mobility software, announces the availability of TerraGo Edge 3.9.6 with a number of new, powerful features for iOS®, Android® and web users. These new features are also immediately available with the TerraGo Magic zero-code platform as a service, which lets end users build custom