Friday, August 10th, 2018
LONDON and NEW YORK – Blippar, the leading augmented reality and computer vision company, today announced the launch of its new indoor visual positioning system (watch demo video here). By pairing the accuracy of indoor visual positioning using computer vision with the interactivity of augmented reality (AR), Blippar has created a new system that enables
Friday, August 10th, 2018
Orbit GT releases the free ArcGIS Pro plugin for its 3D Mapping Cloud SaaS platform and on-premise 3DM Publisher. “The ArcGIS Pro plugin opens a complete new world to all ArcGIS Pro users”, says Peter Bonne, CEO of Orbit GT. “It provides access to massive 3D resources available in 3D Mapping Cloud or from your
Friday, August 10th, 2018
Geospatial industry leaders have announced the formation of the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC) at the 8th session of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) on August 1. Co-founded by a group of 21 companies, the WGIC aims to be a collaborative platform for advancing the role of the geospatial industry and strengthening its contribution
Friday, August 10th, 2018
TORONTO, Ontario – Industrial SkyWorks is pleased to announce the official launch of BlueVu for digital inspections from drone-data. As one of the most trusted names in the industry, Industrial SkyWorks offers cutting edge drone inspection solutions. Industrial Skyworks’ new BlueVu software relieves engineers and drone pilots from examining thousands of images and provides clear, accurate,
Friday, August 10th, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO – The Titan Underwater Drone successfully completed its Kickstarter campaign, raising $200 thousand. Although Titan’s stability and underwater reconnaissance and recording capabilities allow it to comfortably operate at depths of 150 meters, and the external peripheral hardware which combines 4k cameras and an extendable port make Titan more competitive, Titan still has its
Thursday, August 9th, 2018
Stevenage/Kourou, 09/08/2018 – Aeolus, the European Space Agency’s wind sensing satellite, has been encapsulated into the Vega launcher at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou ready for launch on the 21 August. Built by Airbus, Aeolus will be the first satellite capable of performing global wind-component-profile observation on a daily basis in near real-time. The
Wednesday, August 8th, 2018
PALO ALTO, CA – SSL, a Maxar Technologies company (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.) (NYSE: MAXR) (TSX: MAXR), and a leading provider of innovative satellites and spacecraft systems, announced today the Merah Putih communications satellite built for Indonesia’s largest telecom operator is performing post launch maneuvers according to plan following its successful launch on the
Wednesday, August 8th, 2018
HOUSTON – Gulf Energy Information, a leading provider of market intelligence and technical information for the international energy industry, announced Tuesday the introduction of the World Pipeline layer to the Energy Web Atlas (EWA). Energy Web Atlas, an ESRI-based GIS platform, tracks detailed data—including operators, shareholders, pipeline route and pipeline specifications—for more than 3,670 natural gas
Wednesday, August 8th, 2018
ATLANTA and EWING, N.J. – ACG Solutions (ACG), and Critical Response Group, Inc. (CRG) today announced the two companies have formed a strategic business relationship that will significantly enhance the first responder accuracy benefits of ACG’s Synchronized Orchestrated Response (SOR™), a combination of networked, integrated technologies designed to save lives, protect property and reduce liability exposure.
Wednesday, August 8th, 2018
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that its Trimble RTX™ GNSS corrections technology can now achieve horizontal accuracies of better than two centimeters. Start-up times, commonly referred to as convergence, have also improved. Users can now achieve full accuracy in less than 15 minutes, and as fast as one minute in select areas where RTX Fast
