Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
The National Weather Service will study localized weather data collected by Harris Corporation’s (NYSE:HRS) Helios digital platform in its National Mesonet Program, which leverages multiple observation networks located throughout the United States. Harris is providing the platform under a contract with Global Science and Technology, Inc. Highlights: Provides meteorologists with access to nation-wide network of
Friday, July 1st, 2016
On the heels of Tuesday’s announcement by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) releasing its final Part 107 regulations governing small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS), MAPPS, the association of private sector surveying mapping and geospatial firms, today confirmed that Randy Willis, Manager of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Emerging Technologies Team with oversight of Unmanned Aircraft will be
Friday, July 1st, 2016
Redlands, California —Esri, the world’s leading mapping platform company,continues to foster industry innovation and development of novel approaches to the world’s most difficult challenges. The company’s unique Startup Program enables the most promising emerging businesses to incorporate location analytics into their services and solutions. By providing access to Esri’s flagship ArcGIS platform at no cost, selected startups
Friday, July 1st, 2016
Sports fans are about to get a whole new way of experiencing the upcoming Tour de France and select endurance sports at the Rio 2016 Olympics thanks to a start-up out of CSIRO’s Data61 group. This year, spectators through doarama.com will be able to access customised 3D interactive map visualisations of the routes which will
Friday, July 1st, 2016
Redlands, California — Esri’s latest version of ArcGIS Full Motion Video (FMV) presents new capabilities to improve the way analysts and managers interact with videos. ArcGIS FMV allows users to view, organize, and analyze video from drones and other collection platforms. This release includes a performance boost in playback and panning, and in zooming the video
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Deimos Imaging has been presented with the EARSC Company Achievement Award during the occasion of the pre General Assembly cocktail, held on 21st June in Brussels. EARSC has thereby recognised Deimos Imaging as the company to have made the most significant contribution to the development of the Earth Observation sector in Europe. The criteria used
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
For the first year, under the umbrella of the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation ConnectinGEO project, the EARSC competition “European EO product of the year” rewarded a company which has developed the most innovative product integrating an element of open data. During the whole process about 16 companies got interested in the award
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Redlands, California — Attendees of the Esri User Conference are among the first to experience Insights for ArcGIS, a data analysis application that marks a milestone in the evolution of GIS. “Insights for ArcGIS represents not just an evolutionary step, but perhaps a revolutionary one,” said Bern Szukalksi, Esri’s tech evangelist. “It empowers anyone
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Redlands, California — Fresh out of beta, Drone2Map for ArcGIS was released today by Esri with new features and enhancements. The desktop app allows people to process images from drones and quickly create imagery products for mapping, analysis, and sharing across the ArcGIS platform. “Novices and experts alike can use Drone2Map to process still imagery captured
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Today (30 June 2016) Ordnance Survey (OS) and the Scottish Government released an update on the project which will ultimately make it easier for people to find and access every green corner of our neighbourhoods, towns and cities. Building on the 2011 Scottish Greenspace Map, the new OS dataset will provide a comprehensive view of location,
