Thursday, May 4th, 2017
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Orbital Insight, a geospatial analytics and software company, today announced it has closed a $50 million Series C round led by existing investor Sequoia Capital, with participation from new investors Envision Ventures, Balyasny Asset Management, Geodesic Capital, ITOCHU Corporation and Intellectus Partners. Previous investors GV, Lux Capital, and CME Ventures participated
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
SANTIAGO, Chile — Microdrones is excited to announce that GEOCOM, Chile’s leading provider of geospatial innovation, is now offering Microdrones unmanned aerial mapping solutions to their customers. Microdrones developed the world’s first commercial quadcopter and their mdMapper solutions lead the industry for aerial surveying and mapping. “Microdrones has an excellent product line. We’ve investigated multiple
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
Hallowell, Maine – Blue Marble Geographics ( bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the launch of its new academic licensing program with a new web page now available with detailed information and an online application form ( www.bluemarblegeo.com/academic). This pilot program allows institutes of higher education in the U.S. and Canada to deploy both Global Mapper
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
AAM was recently awarded the highly esteemed Export Award at the Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards (APSEA) for industry leading work to generate a 3D national map of Singapore in support of the city state’s Smart Nation agenda. In 2014 AAM was commissioned to complete this challenging project by the Singapore Land Authority (SLA). According
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
ARMONK, N.Y.– IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that its inventors have been granted a patent for transferring packages between drones during flight. The invention described in US Patent No. 9,561,852: In flight transfer of packages between aerial drones helps to extend the range of drones that are delivering packages from a warehouse to a customer’s
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
MINNETONKA, Minnesota, USA – East View Geospatial (EVG), a provider of content-rich cartographic products, is building a library of highly accurate geospatial training data for use in supervised machine learning applications. EVG is offering at no charge a sample foundation geospatial training data set developed during an R&D pilot in Papua New Guinea. “Machine learning
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
Washington, D.C. – TerraGo, a pioneer of geospatial collaboration, field data collection and enterprise mobility software, announces the availability of TerraGo Edge version 4.0, offering a completely redesigned app based on customer feedback, field user observations and task-centered design cycles, as well as a host of new features including the addition of Google® and Apple®
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software developer Cadcorp releases a new application to help fire services determine aggregate risk. Risk Modeller provides analytical functionality for determining risk by combining the effects of spatial and attribute data from a range of different layers. A significant number of UK Fire & Rescue Services (FRS) are currently using Cadcorp
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
Huntsville, Alabama – Valtellina SpA, one of the largest communications systems integration companies in Italy, has implemented Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure’s advanced telecommunications GIS software, Intergraph G/Technology Fiber Optic Works, to support the design and implementation of fiber networks. Using Hexagon’s software, Valtellina has been able to reduce network data preparation and production time from 10
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
Today, we are happy to announce our Pix4Dmapper Desktop 3.2 release. The new version has great advancement in stability and usability – Upload desktop projects to cloud is now 10x faster; Camera parameter correlations are displayed in the quality report for easier troubleshooting and assessment; New key output: tiled level-of-detail mesh is available in osgb
