Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
Trying to measure sea levels around rugged coastlines is not always an easy task. ESA’s CryoSat satellite is making a difference with its radar altimeter. Sea level is a very sensitive indicator of climate change, reflecting components of the climate system such as heat, glaciers and the melting of ice-sheets. Precisely monitoring changes in the
Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
The world market leader for commercially used UAVs, MULTIROTOR service-drone.com, announces an important achievement in the development of its unmanned aerial systems for the B2B market: the Hexacopter ZX5, produced exclusively by the Berlin company for the industry leader of the surveying industry, Trimble, reaches the next evolutionary level. The product has been presented to
Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
Clean, State-of-the-Technology Buses to Hit the Streets | Department of Transportation At the Federal Transit Administration, we’re always looking for ways to encourage innovation in transit. New technologies are not just the latest shiny new toys; when tested and demonstrated properly, they can help solve critical issues facing our communities, our nation, and even the
Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
LIVERMORE, Calif., USA/ CAPELLE A/D IJSSEL, The Netherlands – Sokkia announces the largest forest management company in Latvia – Joint Stock Company “Latvia’s State Forests” (LVM) – chose its latest compact GNSS receivers for forest data collection. The company will use 140 Sokkia GCX2 receivers to gather GIS data for assistance in forest management. Employing more
Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
Eos Positioning Systems (Eos) announces Arrow GNSS receiver series compatibility with Esri’s Collector for ArcGIS running on iPads and iPhones. The Arrow Series GNSS receivers have been tested and certified as high-accuracy GNSS receivers compatible with Collector 10.4.0 for iOS. The full range of Arrow GNSS receivers from sub-meter to decimeter to centimeter RTK accuracy
Monday, July 25th, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. – To address the growing problem of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) impeding wildland firefighting efforts, the U.S. Department of the Interior and industry partners activated a prototype warning system that provides real-time alerts and geofencing alarms to prevent drone pilots from interfering with firefighting operations. “This pilot project makes initial wildfire location data publicly available
Friday, July 22nd, 2016
According to a new research report by MarketIntelReports titled “Global LiDAR Industry 2016 Research Report” is a detailed qualitative analysis of the factors responsible for driving and restraining growth of the LiDAR Industry and future opportunities are provided in the report. Improved automated processing ability in data processing and image resolution capabilities over other technologies
Thursday, July 21st, 2016
Stevenage, 21 July 2016 – Halton Borough Council has decided to migrate its intranet mapping GIS to products provided by the British software developer, Cadcorp. Following an announcement that support for its existing intranet GIS products was to be withdrawn, Halton Borough Council (HBC) approached the market to find a new technology set. Early in
Thursday, July 21st, 2016
Leicestershire, 21 July 2016 – Aerial photography captured by Bluesky has provided the backdrop for a film production to recreate the Goodwood Hill Climb, the most iconic aspect of the UK’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Created by broadcast company Cloudbass working with production company Aurora Media Worldwide, the Bluesky aerial imagery formed part of footage that
Thursday, July 21st, 2016
The use of the RIEGL terrestrial laser scanners, combined with RiSOLVE, is optimized for accident collision investigations. The state of the art hardware and software can be used to rapidly collect evidence at the scene of collisions, which helps to reduce the amount of time roads are closed, reduce lane closures, and minimize road congestion. Data collected from
