Wednesday, September 7th, 2016
HONG KONG – At IFA 2016, ZEROTECH unveiled the DOBBY, a consumer selfie drone that folds and fits in your pocket. With intelligent features that make aerial photography quick and easy for drone experts and beginners, DOBBY is ZEROTECH’s first ever product to be launched internationally and will be available later this month in the
Wednesday, September 7th, 2016
Geodan to transform geospatial data into virtual reality at INTERACT 2016 The industry keynote speaker has been announced for INTERACT – The Luciad User Conference 2016. Professor Henk Scholten of premier Dutch geospatial solutions provider Geodan will provide the industry keynote for the conference. Scholten’s presentation ‘Geocause – Connecting Futures to our Present’ will show
Wednesday, September 7th, 2016
MULTIROTOR service-drones G4 surveying-robot scores silver medal at worlds first drone marathon this Sunday in Berlin. The venue took place at Berlins historic harness racing track in Karlshorst with 8 commercial drone manufacturers participating. The main goal was to demonstrate operational reliability during 30 rounds including stops for battery exchange. Dr. Frank Schönbohm operated
Tuesday, September 6th, 2016
To foster user uptake in the European Union Earth observation (EO) programme Copernicus and spur the development of commercial space applications using EO data, the European Commission has launched Copernicus Accelerator. This one-of-a-kind programme is focused on providing a tailored business coaching service for up to 40 finalists in the Copernicus Masters competition. The organisers
Tuesday, September 6th, 2016
YOQNEAM, Israel, September 6, 2016 – Datumate, a market leader of automated “Field-to-Plan” solutions that save costly field and office time, is pleased to announce a new tablet app for effortless drone flight planning and automated, high resolution photo-shooting. DatuFly™ app saves up to 80% of field surveying time and eliminates follow-up site visits.
Tuesday, September 6th, 2016
Lokeren, Belgium – Orbit GeoSpatial Technologies is pleased to announce the launch of the Mobile Mapping plugin for QGIS. “We’re pleased to announce that from today, every QGIS user now has access to the vast volumes of Mobile Mapping data”, says Peter Bonne, CEO of Orbit GT. “By connecting to our Publisher, the QGIS user consumers
Tuesday, September 6th, 2016
Esri customers in the United States can now purchase Septentrio’s Altus NR2 high-accuracy GNSS receiver, according to an announcement today from the two partner companies. The open-architecture Altus NR2 is fully compatible with Esri’s new version of Collector for ArcGIS, giving Esri users a powerful combination for GIS data gathering in applications requiring centimeter-level positioning,
Tuesday, September 6th, 2016
Applied Spatial Technology, Inc. is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Freeway North America. Sourced from the latest OpenStreetMap (OSM) data, Freeway North America provides complete seamless drive time analysis capabilities for Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Both within-country and cross-border analyses are possible with Freeway North America. A separate Freeway Canada OSM
Tuesday, September 6th, 2016
Following a competitive tender, Warrington Borough Council has awarded the contract to the British software developer to centralise its Geographic Information Systems (GIS). It will enable the council to better target services, with customers able to use the system to gain knowledge of the local area and to pin point issues and report them online.
