Thursday, April 18th, 2019
SAN JOSE, Calif.- Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced that Techmake Solutions, S.A., an IT consulting and technology development company headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, is including Velodyne lidar sensors in its Eagle X mapping and surveying system. Velodyne’s lightweight lidar sensor provides Eagle X unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) a high-resolution image that allows users to accurately
Thursday, April 18th, 2019
The Annual General Meeting of the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC), was held on April 1, 2019 in Amsterdam. With 21 co-founders during the first formal meeting post launch of WGIC in July, 2018, the council has inducted another 21 members. These members organizations are from large corporations to small-medium and new generation start-up companies,
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
Seven start-ups using location, land and property data in their products and services have been accepted onto the Geovation Accelerator Programme. Over the next twelve months the seven start-ups will receive a range of resources, including access to experienced software developers, geospatial expertise from Ordnance Survey (OS), property expertise from HMLR, and mentorship on business
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
In October 2014 IGN FI was awarded a contract to carry out digital mapping of the entire country of Benin at a scale of 1:50,000. Apart from a very few exceptions, the cartography of Benin had never been updated since the country gained its independence. The project to update Benin’s national mapping is co-financed by
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
New York – Five US Departments of Transportation (DOTs) have uploaded photologs with 40 million images covering 270,000 miles of road data to Mapillary, the computer vision-powered street-level imagery platform, in an effort to understand infrastructure and road safety at scale through computer vision, a form of artificial intelligence. The news is announced as the
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
TOKYO and IRVINE, Calif.– Alteryx, Inc. (NYSE: AYX), revolutionizing business through data science and analytics, today announced its new office opening in Tokyo. The new office will support the success of hundreds of current customers in the country, including Honda and Toyo Engineering, and growing demand for its end-to-end analytics and data science platform in the
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO – This week, the NG-11 mission will launch from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility carrying the Cygnus cargo spacecraft. This spacecraft will deliver supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) and transport 60 small satellites, called ThinSats, into space. These satellites are powered by Alta Devices gallium arsenide solar cells and will carry various
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
Friedrichshafen – Airbus Defence and Space and ZF Friedrichshafen AG, a system provider for mobility, are collaborating to enrich and complement ZF on-board system to enhance autonomous driving by using Airbus satellite derived information. Under this collaboration, Airbus and ZF are combining their capabilities and expertise to offer a reliable end-to-end solution for self-driving and
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
Orbit GT releases a new version of its SaaS solution 3DMapping.cloud introducing 3D Models support and Hybrid Resources. “As 3D Mapping and BIM grow closer, we now added support for 3D Models in 3dmapping.cloud“, says Peter Bonne, CEO of Orbit GT. “Customers can now create a 3D model library, organize categories, and blend these in
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019
Grenoble, France, April 16, 2019 – Microlight3D, a specialty manufacturer of ultra hi-resolution 3D-microprinting systems for industrial and scientific applications, today announces the acquisition of French firm Smart Force Technologies (SFT), an award-winning manufacturer of a maskless lithography system for micro-scale 2D-printing and a spin-off from LTM, a leading French research center focused on miniaturizing
