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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

OGC Announces Kickoff of Major Interoperability Testbed – Testbed 12

23 February 2016 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that the Kickoff Event for six threads of the Testbed 12 Interoperability Initiative will be held at the USGS Headquarters in Reston, VA on Wednesday through Friday, March 2-4, the week before the OGC Technical Committee meeting in Washington, DC. The threads are sets of

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

LizardTech to Showcase Latest Version of GeoExpress at FedGIS 2016

SEATTLE, Wash. — Feb. 23, 2016 — LizardTech®, the creator of MrSID® and provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced today it will exhibit at the FedGIS 2016 conference in booth number 116 Feb. 24-25, 2016 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. At the conference, LizardTech will

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

3D Laser Mapping Provide the Solution for Monitoring Coastal Instability

Unstable and rapidly eroding coastlines can cause risk to local infrastructure, and as such, it is important to gain a deeper insight and knowledge into the exact movements and erosion of a coastline. Capturing high-resolution 3D data of unstable slopes in an important step in understanding coastal erosion. The improved insight gained from such datasets

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

NEW RIEGL High-Speed Mobile Mapping Turnkey Systems Launched at ILMF 2016!

On February 22 at ILMF 2016 in Denver, RIEGL launched two new High-Speed Mobile Mapping Turnkey Systems featuring this high performance VUX-1HA kinematic LiDAR sensor! RIEGL is proud to announce the first launch customers in the United States for these systems, David Evans and Associates, a renowned surveying firm based in Portland, Oregon and Surveying

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

6th Digital Earth Summit & ISDE’s 10th Anniversary

The 6th Digital Earth Summit, together with a celebration of the tenth anniversary of ISDE, will be held on 7-8 July 2016 in Beijing, China. This series of summits is one of the academic events regularly organized by the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), who have successfully held five summits since 2006. With the

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

Esri Workbook Teaches Spatial Analysis Techniques

Redlands, California—February 23, 2016—GIS Tutorial 2: Spatial Analysis Workbook, published by Esri, will help experienced geographic information system (GIS) software users hone their spatial analysis skills using Esri’s ArcGIS technology. The fourth edition of this workbook, updated for ArcGIS 10.3 for Desktop or later versions of the software, includes step-by-step exercises that teach readers important

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

VisionMap to Release LightSpeed Version 4.0

Tel Aviv, Israel – February 23, 2016 — VisionMap, leading provider of aerial survey and mapping systems, has announced the upcoming release of LightSpeed 4.0, the newest version of its flagship photogrammetric processing suite. LightSpeed 4.0 includes several exciting new features, particularly in Dense DSM production. A new photogrammetric dense point cloud module has been introduced

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

GEOINT 2016 Symposium Registration Now Open

Herndon, Virginia, Feb. 23, 2016 —The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) opened registration and housing for its GEOINT 2016 Symposium, which will take place May 15-18 at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. The theme of this year’s Symposium is “The GEOINT Revolution”—in recognition of the advent and confluence of

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

Esri Releases Latest Version of ArcGIS Full Motion Video

Redlands, California—February 22, 2016—Esri released the latest version of ArcGIS Full Motion Video (FMV), a technology designed to work with video from drones, manned aircraft, and stationary video surveillance cameras. The release of ArcGIS FMV continues to expand the capabilities of ArcGIS as a complete, professional-level platform for managing, sharing, and extracting value from all forms of

Monday, February 22nd, 2016

Zeroing in on the Market for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Velodyne LiDAR Announces New Puck LITE

MORGAN HILL, Calif.  (Feb. 22, 2016)  — Aiming at the burgeoning market for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Velodyne LiDAR today unveiled its new Puck LITE™ — at 590 grams, the world’s lightest 16-channel LiDAR sensor. Puck LITE will make its public debut on Feb. 22 at ILMF, the International LiDAR Mapping Forum, in Denver (Velodyne