Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017
What are the effects of the “angle between images” setting in circular missions when it comes to 3D reconstruction? Knowing which drone flight plan to design for 3D modeling can be challenging, but the good news is that Pix4Dcapture has automatic flight missions optimized for different scenarios. We tested circular missions with three image angle
Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
A team of scientists have used air bubbles in polar ice from pre-industrial times to measure the sensitivity of the Earth’s land biosphere to changes in temperature. The paper published today in Nature Geoscience has verified and quantified the relationship for the first time and shown how it impacts the cycles of carbon between land,
Monday, January 4th, 2016
California’s forests are home to the planet’s oldest, tallest and most-massive trees. New research from Carnegie’s Greg Asner and his team reveals that up to 58 million large trees in California experienced severe canopy water loss between 2011 and today due to the state’s historic drought. Their results are published in Proceedings of the National
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
Conference director Lisa Murray welcomed a crowd of more than 1,500 attendees to the inaugural Commercial UAV Expo, with the theme “The Sky’s the Limit.” She introduced Patrick Meier, the founder of the Humanitarian UAV Network (UAViators), as one voice to dispel some of the negative press that UAVs have received in the press. Meier
Tuesday, September 29th, 2015
Everywhere they turn these days, manufacturers of all-in-one GPS devices run into bad news. Early in August 2015, Trimble stock reached $19.01 per share, down 44.8 percent from a year earlier. Sales of Garmin personal navigation and auto devices fell 11 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014, a decline consistent with those of recent
Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
Shay Har-Noy, senior director, Geospatial Big Data with DigitalGlobe spoke this morning at the ENVI Analytics Symposium in Boulder. He spoke to big data considerations of volume, variety, velocity and veracity of the data — and the fact that our Earth is changing constantly. DigitalGlobe covers the entire globe every six months, and captures 60
Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
At the ENVI Analytics Symposium in Boulder this morning, Stuart Blundell spoke to the great opportunity that the remote sensing community has with the advent of Big Data Analytics. Making sense of this information is the daily mission of the attendees at the event and the growing number of inputs are being wrestled with to
Wednesday, August 19th, 2015
Stuttgart / Karlsruhe, August 19, 2015 — The INTERGEO from 15 to 17 September in Stuttgart looks set to provide among others with “interaerial SOLUTIONS” platform the most comprehensive overview of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to date.
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,
Monday, July 27th, 2015
July 27, 2015 (Portland, Maine) — SPAR Point Group, organizer of International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF), has announced a Call for Papers for the 2016 event which will take place in Denver, Colorado, USA, February 22-24, 2016. The Call for Papers invites any interested parties to submit abstracts by the deadline of September 1, 2015 using
