Wednesday, July 29th, 2015
Des Plaines, IL, July 29, 2015 — URISA, the National Center for Transit Research, and the Transportation Research Board (TRB) are pleased to announce the featured keynote speakers for the 9th National GIS in Transit Conference, on September 1-3, 2015, in Washington, DC. (Note that Labor Day is Monday, September 7).
Wednesday, July 29th, 2015
July 29, 2015 — BZ Media LLC announced the InterDrone™ technical conference featuring more than 104 classes, panels and keynotes. The event will debut at the Rio in Las Vegas, Sept. 9-10-11, and will also include an Exhibit Hall with more than 85 industry-leading exhibitors, a Yes-Fly Zone for drone demos, the InterDrone Film Festival,
Wednesday, July 29th, 2015
July 29, 2015 — Nautel, Portugal, the navigation and GPS turnkey solution provider, selects SuperField, the GIS data collection application, to provide users with a complete survey task-oriented choice.
Wednesday, July 29th, 2015
MORGAN HILL, Calif., July 29, 2015 — A team of researchers from the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s in-house science service, has outperformed a global mix of 27 teams from academia and industry, achieving the best overall result at a recent Microsoft-sponsored indoor localization competition in Seattle – and 3D, real-time LiDAR sensor technology
Wednesday, July 29th, 2015
July 29, 2015 — 3D documentation works are an important part of architect´s job. Monuments, old buildings, indoors scenarios, stairs, ornaments, vaults, etc have to be captured faithfully every day. All this documentation needs to be generated fast and accurately. Can the architects create all this documentation with at high quality using just one instrument?
Tuesday, July 28th, 2015
July 28, 2015 — Several of the 772 new US Topo quadrangles for Mississippi now display parts of the Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail and other selected public trails. Further significant additions to the new quadrangles include map symbol redesign, enhanced railroad information and new road source data. For Gulf Coast residents, recreationalists and visitors
Tuesday, July 28th, 2015
Leicestershire, UK, July 28, 2015 — Aerial mapping company Bluesky has produced a prototype map showing where it may be unsafe or even illegal to fly Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly referred to as Drones. Bluesky has combined an expertise in flight planning and 3D aerial mapping with various geographic datasets to come up with the concept
Tuesday, July 28th, 2015
July 28, 2015 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership announces OGC’s approval of the OGC Common DataBase specification as an OGC Best Practice.
Tuesday, July 28th, 2015
July 28, 2015 — From agricultural monitoring to charting changing lands, early images from Europe’s new Sentinel-2A satellite show how the ‘colour vision’ mission’s critical observations can be used to keep us and our planet safe.
