Thursday, June 9th, 2016
Leicestershire, UK, 09 June 2016 – 3D models produced from aircraft mounted lasers are being used by survey company Greenhatch Group to help inform a range of Building Information Modelling (BIM) projects. Downloaded from aerial mapping company Bluesky’s online Mapshop (www.blueskymapsop.com), the highly accurate and detailed models are utilised within the Group’s BIM software from
Thursday, June 9th, 2016
ALEXANDRIA, VA – The Carbon Project today announced it has been selected by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGCR) to support the Testbed 12 Interoperability Initiative. In OGC Testbed 12, major sponsoring organizations work with technology providers from around the world to test new ways for mapping software to share information. When participants gain consensus on
Wednesday, June 8th, 2016
Supergeo has recently released the newest updated version of the mobile GIS software –SuperSurv 3.3. In this version, we further improved the manipulation of WMS layers, which now users can more flexibly add them as references and basemaps. And we also adjusted the layout of OGC setting page to make it more intuitive. More important,
Wednesday, June 8th, 2016
Heerbrugg, Switzerland, 08 June, 2016 – Leica Geosystems, global leader of measurement and reality capture technologies, today released TruView Global 2.0. The easy-to-use software integrating point cloud, 3D model and panoramic imagery now supports multiple communities of users from a single installation, bringing even greater efficiency to the office and on the jobsite. Leica TruView
Tuesday, June 7th, 2016
RICHMOND, BC — MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX:MDA), a global communications and information company, today announced that it has been awarded a follow-on contract by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to continue providing MDA’s patented Persistent Change Monitoring (PCM™) solution that supports NGA’s Foundation GEOINT. The information provided by PCM™ allows for
Tuesday, June 7th, 2016
Increasingly, researchers are designing robots with forms and functions that defy our expectation of what a machine can be or do. One of the more unexpected robotics applications in recent years comes from the National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported “RoboBees” project, which aims to create autonomous robotic insects capable of sustained, independent flight. Such robots could
Tuesday, June 7th, 2016
STEVENAGE, United Kingdom, 7 June 2016 – Web mapping from British software developer Cadcorp is to provide location intelligence to firefighters and analysts in a large metropolitan fire and rescue service in the UK. Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service (TWFRS) has selected Web Map Layers 8.0 to help the service better understand the
Tuesday, June 7th, 2016
Leicestershire, England, 07 June 2016 – Aerial mapping company Bluesky has appointed Dr Simon Schuffert to the role of Software Engineer. Schuffert is highly qualified with specialist skills in automated image processing, photogrammetry and GIS, having gained a PhD in Photogrammetry from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Prior to joining Bluesky, Schuffert undertook
