Friday, September 24th, 2021
BOULDER, Colo.– Vexcel Data Program announced today it will enhance its entire Wide Area orthomosaic aerial imagery program to a 15-centimeter (6-inch) ground sample resolution starting in 2022. This program covers the contiguous United States and Western Europe, adding to and refreshing the company’s massive aerial imagery and geospatial data library. Vexcel currently collects the largest aerial program on
Friday, September 24th, 2021
HERNDON, Va.– Geospark Analytics, a world class leader in applied artificial intelligence solutions for risk and threat assessment, has been awarded a new four-year contract from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Over the last few years, Geospark Analytics’ AI-driven risk platform Hyperion helped FEMA’s teams be proactive in times of disaster and relief to provide support and
Friday, September 24th, 2021
HOUSTON – UAS (unmanned aerial systems) service providers Soaring Eagle Imaging (SEI) from Brandon, Mississippi and Skynetwest from Chandler, Arizona, today announced a definitive agreement to become a leading drone data collection and processing company with the creation of Soaring Eagle Technologies (Soaring Eagle). The company, owned and operated by Houston-based Iapetus Holdings LLC (Iapetus), will lead the charge in markets such
Friday, September 24th, 2021
ARLINGTON, Va.– EarthOptics has closed its Series A investment round, raising an additional $10.3 million in funding. This funding will enable further growth and expansion across more farmland of its patent-pending soil mapping and machine learning technologies. Lead investor Leaps by Bayer, the impact investment arm of Bayer, is joined in this Series by new investors S2G Ventures and previous
Friday, September 24th, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO – OmniSci, the accelerated analytics platform, today announced its activities at GEOINT Symposium 2021, America’s largest annual gathering of geospatial intelligence professionals, October 5-8, 2021 in St. Louis, Missouri. In addition to exhibiting at the event, Dr. Mike Flaxman, OmniSci’s Product Lead, will speak at two sessions about the power of GPU-accelerated geospatial analytics as the key to
Friday, September 24th, 2021
Standard Fendt guidance packages now include NovAtel’s SMART7. (Calgary, Canada) – Hexagon | NovAtel is proud to announce that Fendt machines in North America, Europe and the Middle East equipped with Fendt GuideTM guidance systems powered by Fuse Smart Farming now come with NovAtel’s SMART7 GNSS receiver as the default configuration choice. Precision guidance systems are
Friday, September 24th, 2021
Toulouse – Airbus has announced plans for a new CityAirbus at the Company’s first #AirbusSummit on “Pioneering Sustainable Aerospace” as the emerging Urban Air Mobility (UAM) market begins to firm up. Ushering in the next generation of CityAirbus, the fully electric vehicle is equipped with fixed wings, a V-shaped tail, and eight electrically powered propellers as
Friday, September 24th, 2021
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. (Sanborn) has been selected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for a multiple-award indefinite delivery contract with a ceiling of $850 million. The Geospatial Product and Services Contract (GPSC 4) is a successor to the GPSC 3 contract that Sanborn was previously awarded. The Geospatial Product and Services
Friday, September 24th, 2021
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (Nasdaq: VLDR, VLDRW) today announced a multi-year agreement to provide its lidar sensors to TOPODRONE, which is based in Switzerland and develops affordable, high-precision solutions for aerial surveys. Using Velodyne lidar sensors has enabled TOPODRONE to bring high-precision mapping and 3D modeling to demanding environments including farms, forests, infrastructure and more to
Friday, September 24th, 2021
Mapware, Inc. (mapware.ai) has announced the immediate availability of new, radically-simple pricing for the Mapware photogrammetry platform, used by professionals to quickly turn collections of 2D photos into fully-navigable 3D models ready for further AI and human analysis. Previously available only with monthly or annual subscriptions, Mapware is now easily accessible to everyone who wants
