Monday, December 10th, 2018
The launch of the self-driving ‘drone car’ Pop.Up Next attracted a great deal of attention from the world’s media, as did the FormulePFV DroneRacing event. Another major highlight was the fact that the European Commission, European and national authorities together with the industry adopted the Declaration of Amsterdam to advance safe, secure and green drone
Monday, December 10th, 2018
WASHINGTON – The National Alliance for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation Board of Directors is pleased to announce Joshua Dozor of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Stephen Lai of the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, as recipients of the 2018 Award for Excellence in Public Safety GIS. Awards were presented at a special reception
Monday, December 10th, 2018
Last Friday was a record-breaking day for golf enthusiasts world-wide. Two of the world’s best golfers, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, participated in a one-on-one golf duel. Having scored 19 majors between the two of them, they competed for a $9 million grand prize on the Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas. The event
Monday, December 10th, 2018
Toulouse – MapTiler, a maps API (Application Programming Interface) developed by the Swiss company Klokan Technologies, has been named the winner of Airbus Multi-Data Challenge organised as part of the Copernicus Masters 2018. Klokan Technologies receives a voucher worth € 100,000 for the acquisition of satellite data and will benefit from both technical and business coaching. MapTiler provides ads-free personalized maps and can
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018
BERKELEY, Calif. – New Light Technologies (NLT) was the primary sponsor of this year’s second annual Geo4Dev conference, organized by the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), a hub for global development research at UC Berkeley. On November 15, 2018, the event brought together the country’s leading geospatial experts in conversation about the today’s role of GIS
Friday, November 30th, 2018
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Energy & Utilities Domain Working Group (DWG) is excited to announce that its 2nd Energy Summit will be held alongside the December OGC Technical Committee Meeting in Charlotte, NC. This 2nd Energy & Utilities Summit will examine the role of OGC standards in support of Smart Energy Utilities, Smart Energy
Wednesday, November 28th, 2018
Friedrichshafen, 28 November 2018 – CIMON, the technology demonstrator developed and built by Airbus on behalf of the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has now been presented with US science magazine Popular Science’s ‘Best
Monday, November 26th, 2018
At I/ITSEC 2018 in Orlando, Florida, TerraSim will introduce our new terrain server technology which underpins BISim’s cloud-enabled simulation solution for the U.S. Army Synthetic Training Environment (STE) program. Our STE World Server (STEWS) is a geospatial data server that provides efficient networked access to the various data sources required for rendering applications. STEWS provides
Tuesday, November 20th, 2018
MONTRÉAL, Esri Canada User Conference –Esri Canada presented Ville de Sherbrooke with an Award of Excellence today for its use of geographic information system (GIS) technology to create effective traffic management and make that information accessible to the community. “Traffic gridlock is a huge concern of residents and businesses. Sherbrooke has created a system where drivers, transit
Friday, November 16th, 2018
SAN DIEGO – XYO Network, the technology bringing blockchain to the real world, today announced its first annual Spatial Summit event was a major success. The oversubscribed event brought together more than 700 blockchain, business and technology partners, and community members from around the world, including locations as far away as Ghana, Australia, New Zealand
