Monday, February 6th, 2017
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on its candidate GeoPackage 1.2 standard. GeoPackage is an open, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information. It is suitable for use across many domains, from defense and intelligence to outdoor recreation. Over the course of 2016, the GeoPackage Standards Working Group (SWG) made
Monday, February 6th, 2017
(Sun Prairie, WI) — Continental Mapping is pleased to bring Pete Briere into our senior management team as General Manager of our Civil Works Division. Pete has 20 years of experience in the geospatial industry ranging across numerous markets and technologies. Most recently he has served as General Manager at Premier Geospatial, where he expanded
Friday, February 3rd, 2017
The USGIF Awards Program annually recognizes the exceptional work of the global geospatial intelligence tradecraft’s brightest minds and most innovative organizations. The program shines a spotlight on outstanding geospatial intelligence achievements in five categories: academia, community support, government, industry, and military. Nomination forms can be downloaded here and the application deadline is April 7. “The
Friday, February 3rd, 2017
After Rwanda made waves in the news early last year for allegedly being the first country to approve drone delivery, people payed attention. The country, with its rolling hills and one of the fastest growing economies in Central Africa has already established regulations regarding drones and become a vanguard of sorts for the region. “My impression is
Thursday, February 2nd, 2017
Heerbrugg, Switzerland; 2 February 2017 – Leica Geosystems, a global leader of measurement and reality capture technology, today announced it has won both the 2017 PRISM Award for Photonics Innovation and the 2017 Geospatial World Innovation Award. The 2017 PRISM Award for Photonics Innovation was presented to Leica Geosystems in the category of Metrology by
Wednesday, February 1st, 2017
Sydney, Australia – 1 February 2017 – Geospatial data’s enabling role in digital transformation will be on show at the International Symposium on Digital Earth & Locate17 in Sydney in April, combining one of the world’s most prestigious symposiums with Australia’s premier geospatial conference. Dr Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse, chair & convenor of the Locate17 and
Tuesday, January 31st, 2017
SAN JOSE, Calif. – BaySpec, Inc., a leading supplier of high performance spectrometers, spectral engines and spectral analyzers, will present its latest Hyperspectral Imaging and Spectroscopy solutions at SPIE: Photonics West 2017, January 31-February 2, 2017 Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, Booth 323. Featured products include the OCI™ family of Hyperspectral and Multispectral cameras, OEM
Tuesday, January 31st, 2017
REDLANDS, Calif. — Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics technology, today announced its participation at the 2017 DistribuTECH Conference and Exhibition, to be held January 31 to February 2 at the San Diego Convention Center. DistribuTECH is the utility industry’s annual electric power transmission and distribution conference. Esri experts will be on-site to demonstrate
Monday, January 30th, 2017
This past week at Geospatial World Forum 2017 in Hyderabad, India, RIEGL displayed some of the latest products of their broad product portfolio for terrestrial, mobile, airborne and UAV-based laser scanning, in cooperation with their distribution partner for India, MeaTech Solutions (www.meatechsolutions.com). RIEGL’s survey-grade UAV LiDAR platform, the RiCOPTER, was one of the highlights
Monday, January 30th, 2017
RALEIGH, N.C. — PrecisionHawk, a provider of advanced commercial drone technologies, today announced that Michael Chasen has been appointed as the company’s new chief executive officer (CEO). As a serial entrepreneur and veteran technology leader, Chasen brings more than 20 years of software experience to accelerate PrecisionHawk’s rapid growth in the commercial drone market. Michael
