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Thursday, June 9th, 2016

CartoConsult 3D Visualisations Add a Creative Edge to University Prospectus Brochures

Swindon, UK, 09 June 2016 – CartoConsult has completed a 3D mapping project for Pearson’s Business School, London. Commissioned by Hunterlodge Advertising, CartoConsult produced a range of 3D images for Pearson Business School and Escape Studio’s 2016 prospectus brochures. Views of Holborn and Shepherds Bush – two of the campus areas – were created as

Thursday, June 9th, 2016

Global Mapper SDK v17.2 Released with New and Improved Functionality for Software Developers

Hallowell, Maine – Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 17.2 of the Global Mapper Software Development Kit (SDK) along with the Global Mapper LiDAR Module SDK. The latest upgrade to this powerful developer’s toolkit comes shortly after the latest release of the standard version of Global Mapper and

Thursday, June 9th, 2016

Bluesky’s 3D Aerial Laser Maps Inform BIM Projects

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

The Carbon Project Selected to Support Major Mapping Testbed

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

The Secret Weapon to Boost Surveying Productivity–SuperSurv

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

GEO Business 2016 Firmly Establishes Itself As The ‘Must Attend’ Event In The Industry!

GEO Business 2016 took place in London at the end of May and has reported another incredibly successful  show with overall attendance up a remarkable 10% on last year.  Building on the momentum of the two  previous instalments, over 2,200 visitors, from a staggering 50 countries attended the show, setting the bar extremely high and

Wednesday, June 8th, 2016

Leica Geosystems Releases New Software Capabilities for Web-Based Collaboration Using Digital Reality Capture Data

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

MDA Awarded Follow-On Contract to Support NGA with Persistent Change Detection

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

Merrick-Surdex JV Awarded Contract with USGS

June 7, 2016 – COLORADO – The Merrick-Surdex Joint Venture (JV) has signed a five-year, multimillion dollar Geospatial Product and Services Contract (GPSC) with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to provide mapping and surveying services. GPSC is a suite of contracts used by federal, state, and municipal government entities to partner with USGS for

Tuesday, June 7th, 2016

Flight of the RoboBee

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