Monday, February 17th, 2020
McLaren Engineering Group, a full-service engineering firm, announced today that it is expanding its leadership team, appointing Steven MacDonald as Albany Regional Director and Geomatics Division Principal. In his new role, MacDonald will oversee the firm’s growing Capital District office while also managing McLaren’s Geomatics division nationwide. “Steven’s impressive background brings a strong blend of
Monday, February 17th, 2020
The advancement of new technology in the geospatial industry is opening up new horizons for surveyors. The profession has rapidly become high-tech, which has brought many benefits and also an ever-greater need to invest in advanced data acquisition, processing, analysis and visualization solutions. According to the findings from the annual GIM International survey among geospatial
Monday, February 17th, 2020
Septentrio’s new web shop offers direct access to mosaicTM multi-frequency GNSS receiver module. Customers can purchase the mosaicTM development kit quickly and easily to evaluate this unique module. Septentrio, a global leader in high-precision positioning solutions, opens today an online store shop.septentrio.com, selling high-performance GPS/GNSS module receivers. This web shop is accessible via the Septentrio
Friday, February 14th, 2020
1Spatial has formed a strategic partnership with international technology company Neueda. 1Spatial and Neueda will jointly provide digital solutions that enable customers to transform and improve the way they do business. Neueda provides digital transformation services to customers in the private sector, public sector and capital markets across the globe. Headquartered in Belfast, Neueda has
Friday, February 14th, 2020
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) has opened its Call for Speakers for the 2020 Trimble Dimensions User Conference, which will be held November 2–4 at Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Emphasizing education, innovation and networking, this biennial event is a premier opportunity for speakers to share insights and real-world experiences. Of
Friday, February 14th, 2020
Fairfax, VA – A new trade association of equipment, instrument, and software firms in the surveying, mapping, GIS, and geospatial market, the Geospatial Equipment and Technology Institute (GETI), is being explored and an organizing meeting will be held on March 23 in Washington, DC. The intent of the GETI is to fill a niche for
Thursday, February 13th, 2020
MELBOURNE, Fla.- The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has awarded L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) a multimillion-dollar contract to develop a software platform that will make it easier for analysts to use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify objects in large data sets. The U.S. military and intelligence community are inundated with massive amounts of data generated
Thursday, February 13th, 2020
FREDERICTON, New Brunswick – Teledyne CARIS, a Teledyne Technologies company, is pleased to announce the release of HIPS and SIPSTM 11.3. This new software upgrade will introduce the first-ever COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) release of an AI solution for classifying and cleaning sonar noise. Teledyne CARIS seeks to reduce significantly the need for manual cleaning and
Thursday, February 13th, 2020
HERNDON, Va.- Today, Spaceflight Industries, Inc. announced it has signed a definitive share purchase agreement with Mitsui & Co., Ltd., in partnership with Yamasa Co., Ltd. to sell its satellite rideshare launch business, Spaceflight, Inc. Mitsui & Co.’s planned acquisition of the launch service provider is a unique opportunity for Spaceflight to further invest and
Thursday, February 13th, 2020
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the OGC Membership has approved version 1.1 of the OGC Community Standard Indexed 3D Scene Layer and Scene Layer Package Format Specification, more commonly known as I3S. I3S enables the streaming and storage of arbitrarily large amounts of 3D geographic data. An I3S dataset, referred
