Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019
Friedrichshafen, 02 July 2019 – The next supply mission (CRS-18) to be launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, will transport a special ‘steam engine’ to the International Space Station (ISS). RUBI (Reference mUltiscale Boiling Investigation), a fluid science experiment developed and built by Airbus for the European Space Agency (ESA), addresses the fundamentals of the boiling
Monday, July 1st, 2019
ZUG, Switzerland (1 July 2019) — Hexagon’s Geosystems division today announced the acquisition of Melown Technologies, a Prague-based technology company from Ivo Lukačovič´s investment company Helifreak Limited. Melown Technologies develops mass-scale computer vision and advanced visualisation technology for interactive web-based rendering, enabling high performing 3D visualisation of digital urban and natural landscape models that are
Monday, July 1st, 2019
More design-orientated and compact, this second generation version of the 3D mobile vehicle scanner has been fully redesigned. The system has been simplified considerably in both electronic and ergonomic terms to make it more robust and stable in adverse conditions and challenging environments. Despite being lighter, the second generation offers all the same technological capacities
Monday, July 1st, 2019
Thalia Baldwin has been appointed as the new director of the Geospatial Commission. She will take over from William Priest on 1 August, stepping up from the role of deputy director for policy at the organisation, a position she held from its creation early last year. Baldwin previously spent five years at HM Treasury as
Monday, July 1st, 2019
Grenoble, France, and Tokyo, Japan, July 1, 2019 – Isorg, a pioneer in organic photodetectors (OPDs) and large-area image sensors, and Sumitomo Chemical, a global leader in OPD materials production and other fields, today announce their agreement to develop new OPD products for use as smartphone fingerprint sensors and hybrid organic CMOS image sensors. This agreement
Monday, July 1st, 2019
MARKHAM, Ontario, Canada – PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today the release of Service Pack 2 for Geomatica, the company’s flagship software for complete and integrated desktop and enterprise geoimage processing. Geomatica features tools for remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, geospatial analysis, mosaicking, and more that
Monday, July 1st, 2019
REDLANDS, Calif.— Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced that the City of Arlington, Texas, has released a new performance measurement dashboard on its city website. The new Esri technology-powered dashboard, called “Your City at Work,” is an accessible, dynamic tool that allows residents to see their tax dollars at work. “The city’s
Monday, July 1st, 2019
European Space Imaging today signed a contract with Maxar Technologies, a trusted partner and global innovator in Earth intelligence and space infrastructure, to offer SecureWatch and EarthWatch to customers based in Europe, North Africa and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS countries). The innovative and industry-leading products are subscription-based services that provide customers online and
Monday, July 1st, 2019
SHENZHEN, China – The 3rd Drone World Congress 2019, in conjunction with the 4th Shenzhen International UAV Expo, was held in Shenzhen, China, from June 20th to 22nd. Themed with “Better Technology, Better Life”, the congress emphasised the industry applications of drones in agriculture, public safety, land management, civil aviation, environmental protection, disaster rescue, etc. Over
Monday, July 1st, 2019
Guilford, UK – Airbus has enlarged its high-resolution imagery portfolio following an agreement to leverage capacity from the S1-4 satellite built by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL). This new imagery offer called Vision-1 delivers full end-to-end imaging operations to Airbus’ customers. Vision-1 provides 0.9m resolution imagery in the panchromatic band and 3.5m in the multispectral
