Tuesday, July 16th, 2019
Four Independent Commissioners will join the Board of the Geospatial Commission alongside its Chair, Sir Andrew Dilnot, and Deputy Chair, Nigel Clifford. Dame Kate Barker, Kru Desai, Edwina Dunn and Steve Unger have been appointed by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Rt Hon David Lidington CBE MP, in consultation with the Chair
Monday, July 15th, 2019
Spun out of the University of South Australia in 2015, Myriota last year raised $15 million through a Series A funding round, with Boeing HorizonX Ventures among the contributors. The Statement of Strategic Intent follows a similar agreement penned between international aerospace company Boeing and the Australian Space Agency in April. Deputy head of the
Monday, July 15th, 2019
RIEGL, an internationally successful manufacturer of LiDAR scanners for surveying applications headquartered in Horn, Austria, is investing heavily in the expansion of production and office space. The continued, worldwide demand for the high-performance sensors allows the company to grow and expand further. RIEGL, which celebrated its 40th anniversary last year, is now meeting the rapidly
Monday, July 15th, 2019
The Company’s proprietary and pilot-operated multi-sensor platform will be used to penetrate dense tree canopy and reveal hidden features for infrastructure planning The Company’s patented IRISTM technology will fuse data from a wide variety of sensors, delivering a contiguous and seamless high-resolution model of the environment Derivative applications to advance government objectives will include topographic
Monday, July 15th, 2019
WESTMINSTER, Colo – Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR) today announced that it has begun production on a Legion-class geostationary satellite for Ovzon, a company located in the United States and Sweden dedicated to meeting the demand for increased mobile broadband connectivity in underserved regions. Ovzon selected Maxar in December 2018 to build its first satellite, Ovzon
Monday, July 15th, 2019
Scientists from Lomonosov MSU (Faculty of Geography) have published the first version of the Russian wave energy web-atlas. The test version of the web-atlas posted at http://autolab.geogr.msu.ru/wavenergy in open access. It contains data on the wave energy spatial distribution in the Black, Caspian, Baltic, Barents and the Kara seas. The atlas also contains information on
Monday, July 15th, 2019
British GIS company, Cadcorp, has made significant updates in its latest software release, Cadcorp SIS 9. In particular, new functionality has been added to Cadcorp SIS Desktop to support the requirements of Crime Analysts. This functionality is included within SIS Desktop and without the requirement for Police Forces to license additional modules or add-ons. Police
Friday, July 12th, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO – Volans-i, Inc., an on-demand drone delivery business based in San Francisco, CA, announced today a strategic partnership with Fli Drone, a Hogfish Ventures company, to provide on-demand drone delivery services in The Bahamas. To cement the partnership, the companies successfully completed the first long-range unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery in The Bahamas on
Friday, July 12th, 2019
GfK’s Map of the Month for July illustrates the brick-and-mortar retail share of private consumption in Europe in 2018. According to GfK’s latest retail study, the retail share of overall consumer expenditures among the EU-28 was 30.5% in 2018, a decline of 0.4% compared to the previous year. Some contributing factors to this decline include
Friday, July 12th, 2019
Delair Takeoff offers fixed monthly fee for enhanced flexibility, lower capital expenditure for leveraging long-range, precision aerial intelligence platform TOULOUSE, France – Delair, a leading supplier of commercial drone solutions, today announced Delair Takeoff, a cost-effective subscription program for accessing the company’s high performance Delair UX11 family of UAVs and its delair.ai, cloud-based data
