Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
Toulouse – Construction of EUTELSAT 172B, the first high-power all-electric telecommunications satellite built in Europe, is now complete at the Airbus satellite assembly facilities in Toulouse. The fully fledged satellite for Eutelsat is now undergoing final testing before it is sent to Kourou, French Guiana, for an Ariane 5 launch scheduled in April. EUTELSAT 172B
Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
WALTHAM, Mass. – Excelitas Technologies® Corp., a global technology leader focused on delivering innovative, customized photonic solutions, today introduced the 1X4 Pulsed Laser Diode Array for LiDAR applications. The new laser array combines Excelitas’ field-proven high-efficiency, multi-cavity laser chip technology with small form-factor surface mount device (SMD) packaging for applications requiring high reliability such as autonomous
Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
LIVERMORE, Calif. – Topcon Positioning Group announces the release of the latest addition to its ES total station series in the Americas, the ES-60. Featuring advanced reflectorless capabilities and an upgraded data transfer functionality — the new ES-60 is designed to provide an entry-level total station option with a fast and powerful EDM. “The ES-60
Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
San Francisco/Zurich — CloudCities today announced an update to the platform bringing IFC support and private scenes. The new CloudCities is now available at cloudcities.io . CloudCities is an online platform for visualizing, editing, and publishing interactive 3D city models. It dramatically simplifies creating 3D plans and combining data with it. With the new version,
Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
Orbit GT releases its premiere Indoor Mapping product with a spectaculare range of functionalities. It’s availabe for download today. “Indoor Mapping v17 is an awesome new release”, says Peter Bonne, CEO of Orbit GT. “It’s wonderful blend of point cloud and imagery management, floor plan building and advanced feature extraction. On top of that, it
Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
Today the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development ( CSTD) will hold an expert panel meeting on the role of science, technology, and innovation in ensuring food security by 2030. Pix4D’s agricultural business manager Jorge Fernandez will present on drone mapping solutions for precision agriculture, and their potential impact on food security.
Tuesday, January 24th, 2017
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. (Sanborn), an industry leader in acquisition and processing of high-resolution oblique aerial imagery, announces the recent addition of 35 newly available oblique imagery datasets to its extensive oblique imagery inventory. In 2016, the firm collected more than 2.5 million new images, covering over 12,000 square miles.
Tuesday, January 24th, 2017
MELBOURNE, Fla. – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released the first image taken by Harris Corporation’s (NYSE:HRS) Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) onboard their next-generation weather satellite. The image taken from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16) is of Earth’s full western hemisphere with detailed cloud and water features. The Harris ABI, the
Tuesday, January 24th, 2017
Bremen, 24/01/2017 – Mid-January 2017 Airbus Defence and Space delivered to NASA a propulsion test module for the Orion programme. The Propulsion Qualification Test Model (PQM) will be used to check that the Orion European Service Module (ESM) spacecraft’s propulsion subsystem functions correctly. On behalf of the European Space Agency, Airbus Defence and Space is
Tuesday, January 24th, 2017
GeoComm and RapidSOS are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to provide public safety agencies that use GeoComm 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) mapping systems with accurate location and additional data from the RapidSOS Clearinghouse. Through this partnership, PSAP’s working with GeoComm will be able to harness data from the RapidSOS NG911 Clearinghouse —
