Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025
Prof Dr Ferdinand Jan ‘Ferjan’ Ormeling Jr – a pioneer of thematic and atlas cartography, as well as geographical names – sadly passed away on 13 June this year. Menno-Jan Kraak, former president of the ICA, has written this ‘In Memoriam’ reflecting on Ferjan’s central role in the development of both Dutch and international cartography.
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025
The four latest-generation optical satellites developed by Airbus in collaboration with the French Space Agency CNES are now in transit to their launch site in French Guiana. Having departed from Toulouse, the satellites are heading to the European Spaceport in Kourou, where they will lift off aboard an Arianespace Vega-C rocket on 25 July. Known
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025
First-of-its-kind non-profit trade association to foster the growth of data, software, systems, knowledge engineering, and standards capability New York/Boston – EDM Council®, the global association for data management, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Object Management Group® (OMG®), the open membership, not-for-profit technology consortium. The combination brings together more than 700 corporate and public-sector member
Tuesday, July 1st, 2025
Brand evolution cements Teledyne FLIR OEM as the strategic infrared imaging provider of choice for automotive, defense, professional, and uncrewed OEM applications. Goleta, Calif. –Teledyne FLIR OEM, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE: TDY) and the global leader in enabling thermal imaging innovation, today announced the strategic evolution of the Teledyne FLIR OEM brand. The
Tuesday, July 1st, 2025
Improvement to Stockpile Functionality also Added AARSCHOT, Belgium – Virtual Surveyor has significantly enhanced the data storage, remote file access, and project collaboration functionality of its popular smart drone surveying package with seamless integration for Microsoft Office OneDrive accounts. This enables Virtual Surveyor users to inexpensively save data in the Cloud for access anywhere and
Friday, June 27th, 2025
The Hexagon Digital Reality (HxDR) business unit has announced that it is integrating NVIDIA Omniverse and adopting OpenUSD. Hexagon, in a statement, said that the integration will “enable faster, more accessible creation of immersive, photorealistic digital twins from scanned data in the cloud.” Commenting on the announcement, Eric McSherry, Vice President of Platforms and Solutions, HxDR, a
Friday, June 27th, 2025
Maps have been essential since the earliest days of human civilization. As soon as people began settling in one place, understanding the surrounding environment became vital. Of course, these maps have evolved significantly over time, from very sparse maps of immediate surroundings to “global” maps featuring sea monsters in the oceans, to our extremely accurate
Friday, June 27th, 2025
RIEGL technology has been implemented in a series of projects by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) conducted in collaboration with InfraTec. This project was under a program sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). These efforts focused on improving the energy efficiency and structural resilience of United States research
Friday, June 27th, 2025
New solution delivers high-level accuracy for automotive and IoT applications including autonomous vehicles, drones, and industrial machinery. Trimble and InvenSense, a TDK group company, announced they will work together to deliver an advanced navigation solution that combines the Trimble ProPoint Go engine and Trimble RTX correction service with TDK’s SmartAutomotive Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) module
Friday, June 27th, 2025
Unique IDs make it easier and cheaper to attach data to geospatial entities, such as buildings, streets, places, etc. The Overture Maps Foundation, a collaborative effort to build interoperable open map data, today announced general availability of its groundbreaking Global Entity Reference System (GERS). GERS provides a unique ID for every geospatial entity, making it
