Monday, April 8th, 2019
AED-SICAD, Battery Ventures’ core portfolio company in the geographic-information systems (GIS) market, has completed the acquisition of Geocom Group, a provider of GIS technology for markets including utilities, transport and logistics. Under its previous ownership by Esri Deutschland GmbH, Geocom—whose main offices are in Burgdorf, Switzerland and Kranzberg, Germany,—built a leading market position. Under the
Monday, April 8th, 2019
REDLANDS, Calif.- Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced that it has contracted with the Lithuanian Transport Safety Administration (LTSA), Hydrography Division. LTSA will partner with Esri; local distributor Hnit-Baltic; and Quality Positioning Services (QPS), a Saab subsidiary, to implement a new seabed database and nautical cartography system. LTSA, already a current user
Monday, April 8th, 2019
Exprodat, the petroleum ArcGIS platform specialist, Esri Gold-level Partner and Getech Group company, has been awarded the Release Ready Speciality by Esri Inc. The Release Ready Specialty designation is only awarded to those Esri business partners who are able to prove their expertise and capability in understanding, adopting and promoting the latest versions of Esri
Friday, April 5th, 2019
HERNDON, Va.– HawkEye 360 Inc. today announced that it has launched RFGeo, a first-of-its-kind radio frequency (RF) signal mapping product. RFGeo uses the unique data generated by the HawkEye Constellation of space-based RF sensing satellites to identify and geolocate RF signals, providing a new global geospatial data layer. RFGeo is the company’s first commercially available
Friday, April 5th, 2019
NOVATO, CA – BetterGIS, an innovator in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications, today announced that James Rodisch, an executive leader with decades of experience building growth companies, has been named Chief Financial Officer and a member of the company’s executive management team. Rodisch has more than 40 years of business and academic experience. He has
Friday, April 5th, 2019
Inovor Technologies CEO Dr Matthew Tetlow said a A$272,000 Defence Innovation Hub grant would go toward proving the company’s algorithm can stabilise control systems to keep satellites fixed on specific positions. “The stabilising technology enables very fine pointing with as little jitter as possible, focussing on stars for long periods of time,” he said. “Essentially
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the expansion of its CenterPoint® RTX® Fast (RTX Fast) GNSS correction service coverage area in North America. Trimble RTX Fast reduces convergence time, allowing customers to achieve horizontal positioning accuracy of better than one inch (two centimeters), in as fast as one minute. No other satellite-delivered correction service
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Open data services developed using official national sources of geospatial information have been demonstrated for the first time at Geospatial World Forum. Conference delegates received an exclusive preview of the first test services from the Open European Location Services (ELS) Project which is being coordinated by EuroGeographics, the membership association for Europe’s National Mapping, Cadastral
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested members & non-members to solicit proposals and participate in the combined OGC Disaster Resilience Pilot (DRP-2019) & GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP-10) Initiative. The two Pilots were merged since they share the same ambitions, technical principles, interoperability challenges, and goals: to develop best practices in sharing and accessing
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Orbit Logic announced today that it has delivered scheduling software to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to optimize NOAA ground terminal contacts with Mid-Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites equipped to receive search and rescue distress alerts. The solution helps improve the timeliness and location accuracy of distress alerts received by the satellites, leading to
