Monday, April 29th, 2019
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio – Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Lt. Governor Jon Husted, and Major General William Cooley, Commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, announced today that the Ohio Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center and AFRL will begin testing groundbreaking aviation technology at the Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport. This month, the
Monday, April 29th, 2019
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill – CompTIA, the leading trade association for the global technology industry, said today it will spotlight its growing presence in the commercial drone market at next week’s AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2019 conference in Chicago. CompTIA (Booth #4822) will unveil new standards and best practices for the drone market; preview new research on business and partnership
Monday, April 29th, 2019
SAN JOSE, Calif.- Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced an agreement with Nikon Corporation, under which Sendai Nikon Corporation, a Nikon subsidiary, will manufacture lidar sensors for Velodyne with plans to start mass production in the second half of 2019. The partnership cements Velodyne’s manufacturing plan and expands its lead in the global lidar sensor market.
Monday, April 29th, 2019
WESTMINSTER, CO – Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development, Inc. (TRI-AD), Toyota’s automated driving software development company, Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), a global technology innovator powering the new space economy, and NTT DATA Corporation, a leading IT services provider, today announced they will collaborate on a proof of concept to build automated high-definition (HD) maps for autonomous
Monday, April 29th, 2019
Orlando, FL – RIEGL will be attending and exhibiting at AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2019! AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2019 will take place from April 29th-May 2nd, 2019, at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. RIEGL will be exhibiting at Booth 817 during AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2019. Be sure to come by to meet with our team of RIEGL experts, along with
Monday, April 29th, 2019
TOULOUSE, France (Airbus Defence and Space PR) – Airbus Defence and Space and Orbital Insight have expanded upon their partnership agreement to create Earth Monitor, a powerful change analysis and insights service which provides situation awareness over archived or newly tasked areas of interest. Earth Monitor, available through Airbus’ OneAtlas Platform, leverages Orbital Insight’s machine
Friday, April 26th, 2019
DENVER, April 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ – Intermap Technologies has been awarded its first contract for its new, high-resolution aviation terrain dataset announced in December. An international drone operator which delivers medical supplies has signed a multi-year contract in which Intermap will deliver its new Lido/SurfaceData NEXTView terrain dataset to improve flight efficiency, navigation and safety. Intermap’s
Friday, April 26th, 2019
Kongsberg Geospatial, an Ottawa-based geospatial technology company announced the release of IRIS UxS 2.0, an updated and enhanced version of their Fleet Control Station and Airspace Management System. IRIS UxS provides drone operators with enhanced airspace awareness, navigational tools, and deconfliction and air safety features for BVLOS operators, while providing airspace managers with an integrated
Friday, April 26th, 2019
MENLO PARK, Calif.— Researchers from SRI International have successfully demonstrated new Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) capabilities with a radar developed for CubeSat-based earth science applications. Designed for the power and thermal requirements of the space environment, the low-weight, highly compact sensor has the potential to improve short-term forecasting of geologic hazards and enable more
Friday, April 26th, 2019
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the launch of Trimble PULSE® Remote Expert, an augmented reality (AR) tool that improves the productivity of field service technicians by connecting them with support experts via video, audio and spatial annotations in real-time. The AR tool provides remotely-located users with a shared, live view using the camera
