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Thursday, December 15th, 2016

PrecisionHawk Research Outlines Operations Risk for Drones Flying Beyond Line of Sight

RALEIGH, N.C., – PrecisionHawk is releasing its Phase 2 Pathfinder Results today as part of UAS TAAC (Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technical Analysis and Applications Center) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Pathfinder program is an FAA-led initiative to facilitate the early introduction of low-altitude operations for small, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System. The

Thursday, December 15th, 2016

PhotoSat Publishes 21 New Satellite Surveying Accuracy Studies

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – PhotoSat, provider of the world’s only engineering quality satellite surveying service, has announced the publication of 21 new satellite surveying accuracy studies on their website. The studies include data from seven different stereo satellite systems, with the best results showing elevation surveying accuracies of better than 15cm. The accuracy studies include stereo

Thursday, December 15th, 2016

Proteus Geo Works With AECOM to Test New Bathymetry Service

Proteus Geo, a leading provider of satellite-based mapping services and data, is working with global infrastructure services firm AECOM to test its new satellite derived bathymetry service. The two companies recently completed a day of workshops, where AECOM experts looked at how the enhanced water depth data provided by the DHI analysis of DigitalGlobe satellite

Thursday, December 15th, 2016

Sefton Council and Arvato Introduce New Digital Mapping Tool for Citizens

The intuitive technology, by software developer Cadcorp, overlays a range of data including property and electoral figures from across the region on to a map hosted on the authority’s website. This enables local residents to find information at the click of a button, enabling self-service to check the progress of planning and building applications and

Thursday, December 15th, 2016

Sanborn Oblique Analyst Added to ERDAS IMAGINE

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. —   The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. (Sanborn) is pleased to announce that Hexagon Geospatial, Norcross, Ga., has added Sanborn Oblique Analyst® as an extension to ERDAS IMAGINE, the company’s professional remote sensing software package. Hexagon claims it is the world’s most widely used remote sensing software. “We are very excited about the

Wednesday, December 14th, 2016

The Holly and the 5G

Bournemouth’s Christmas tree, lights and decorations have been included by Ordnance Survey (OS) in the intelligence of its ground breaking planning and mapping tool that will be instrumental to the national rollout of 5G technology – the next generation of wireless communications needed to bring Internet-connected devices into everyday life. The tool, which is being created

Wednesday, December 14th, 2016

Velodyne LiDAR Announces Breakthrough Design for Miniaturized, Low-Cost Solid-State LiDAR Sensors

MORGAN HILL, Calif. –Velodyne LiDAR Inc., the recognized global leader in Light, Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology, today announced a groundbreaking design for a solid-state LiDAR sensor that can deliver a subsystem cost of under $50 U.S. when sold in high-volume manufacturing scale. The technology will impact the proliferation of LiDAR sensors in multiple industry

Wednesday, December 14th, 2016

MapD Builds Out Award-Winning GPU and Visual Analytics Platform

SAN FRANCISCO —  MapD, the market leader in GPU-powered analytics, today announced significant new feature and performance enhancements to its Core database and Immerse visual analytics platform. The new capabilities extend the company’s pioneering work in using GPUs to both query and visualize billions of records with millisecond latency. The performance characteristics of MapD’s approach

Wednesday, December 14th, 2016

Sentera Partners With RDO Equipment Co. to Offer New UAV Solutions

MINNEAPOLIS – Sentera is excited to announce its partnership with RDO Equipment Co., a total solutions provider with 78 stores servicing the agriculture, construction, environmental, surveying, and irrigation industries. This partnership augments the RDO Equipment Co. already robust product offering, giving their customer network access to a variety of Sentera’s innovative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) solutions

Wednesday, December 14th, 2016

AirMap, DigiCert Introduce First-Ever Digital Identity Certificate for Drones

SANTA MONICA, Calif. —  Today, AirMap announced Drone ID, a partnership with DigiCert that will enable, for the first time, instant authentication of an unmanned aircraft’s identity via a digital certificate. Drone ID is a major step forward for drone security, laying the groundwork for a future in which millions of drones can share the