Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
Ross Stevens has been appointed MD of Fugro GeoServices Ltd, the UK based site characterisation specialist. Stevens is a chartered civil engineer who joined Fugro Seacore in 2007 after a decade in project management and civils contracting. In 2012, he was appointed deputy MD of Fugro Engineers BV based in the Netherlands. He returned to
Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
Trying to measure sea levels around rugged coastlines is not always an easy task. ESA’s CryoSat satellite is making a difference with its radar altimeter. Sea level is a very sensitive indicator of climate change, reflecting components of the climate system such as heat, glaciers and the melting of ice-sheets. Precisely monitoring changes in the
Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
Redlands, California—The TM Forum honored Randy Frantz with its Outstanding Contributor Award. Frantz is the director of telecommunications solutions at Esri. Presented by the forum’s strategy committee, this award honors individuals who go the extra mile in providing leadership and value to the forum’s collaboration projects. “Through the contributions of Randy Frantz and others, our members have an
Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
Washington D.C – Boundless is excited to announce its support for FOSS4G 2016. This international FOSS4G conference is the highlight of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation calendar. The event is being held in Bonn, Germany from August 22nd to 26th. Boundless is participating with 7 hands-on workshops and 11 presentations covering the great technology and
Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
The world market leader for commercially used UAVs, MULTIROTOR service-drone.com, announces an important achievement in the development of its unmanned aerial systems for the B2B market: the Hexacopter ZX5, produced exclusively by the Berlin company for the industry leader of the surveying industry, Trimble, reaches the next evolutionary level. The product has been presented to
Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
Clean, State-of-the-Technology Buses to Hit the Streets | Department of Transportation At the Federal Transit Administration, we’re always looking for ways to encourage innovation in transit. New technologies are not just the latest shiny new toys; when tested and demonstrated properly, they can help solve critical issues facing our communities, our nation, and even the
Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
LIVERMORE, Calif., USA/ CAPELLE A/D IJSSEL, The Netherlands – Sokkia announces the largest forest management company in Latvia – Joint Stock Company “Latvia’s State Forests” (LVM) – chose its latest compact GNSS receivers for forest data collection. The company will use 140 Sokkia GCX2 receivers to gather GIS data for assistance in forest management. Employing more
Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
Eos Positioning Systems (Eos) announces Arrow GNSS receiver series compatibility with Esri’s Collector for ArcGIS running on iPads and iPhones. The Arrow Series GNSS receivers have been tested and certified as high-accuracy GNSS receivers compatible with Collector 10.4.0 for iOS. The full range of Arrow GNSS receivers from sub-meter to decimeter to centimeter RTK accuracy
Monday, July 25th, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. – To address the growing problem of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) impeding wildland firefighting efforts, the U.S. Department of the Interior and industry partners activated a prototype warning system that provides real-time alerts and geofencing alarms to prevent drone pilots from interfering with firefighting operations. “This pilot project makes initial wildfire location data publicly available
Monday, July 25th, 2016
Karlsruhe, Hamburg 25 July 2016 – The new sector for hardware and software manufacturers and service providers in the UAS industry is incredibly dynamic. As part of INTERGEO in Hamburg from 11 to 13 October, interaerial SOLUTIONS will be showcasing the legal frameworks, new areas of application, growing safety concepts and much more. “The geoindustry
