Monday, February 18th, 2019
SPAR 3D Expo & Conference and Lidar News are pleased to invite you to nominate yourself or a colleague for the inaugural Younger Geospatial Professional (YGP) of the Year award. This important award will recognize the outstanding accomplishments and leadership initiatives by a younger member of the worldwide, geospatial community. To participate in the
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Set to fly in 2022, ESA’s Biomass Earth Explorer satellite with its 12-meter diameter radar antenna will pierce through woodland canopies to perform a global survey of Earth’s forests—and see how they change over the course of Biomass’ five-year mission. Trees are an integral, much-loved element of our environment; they also hold clues to our
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Martek Anti Drone Systems (M.A.D.S) are delighted to announce a new strategic partnership in the Middle East with Market Leader Exalto Emirates. Exalto Emirates will be M.A.D.S exclusive distributor in the region providing drone detection and mitigation services for the marine industry. Erik Van Wilsum, Head of CUAS said “The growing trend for the use
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Cadcorp cloud service provides hosted web mapping for housing association’s asset and land ownership Newport City Homes first started using Cadcorp web mapping technology in 2010. At that time, the software was installed and hosted on their local infrastructure and Newport City Homes managed both the application and data. Following Cadcorp’s announcement of a cloud
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Lidar Data from the cloud: The USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) has announced the availability of a new way to access and process lidar point cloud data from the 3DEP repository. The USGS has been refining new mechanisms to access 3DEP data beyond simple downloads. With 3DEP’s adoption of cloud storage and computing, users now
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, announced that Jerri Daniels, CFM, has been promoted to associate vice president in the firm’s New Orleans, Louisiana, office, and Andy Bobe, PE, has been promoted to senior associate in its Daphne, Alabama, office. Jerri Daniels has been in the consulting industry for 18 years, and has been
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
London – Mapillary, the street-level imagery platform that uses computer vision to fix the world’s maps, today announced a new tool that allows cities and mapmakers to take control over their map data collection in order to build better maps at scale. Called Capture Projects, the tool consists of a combination of a web and
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
PHILADELPHIA & TORONTO – EnerTech Capital (“EnerTech”) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement under which Dynamic Map Platform Co., Ltd. (“DMP”) has agreed to acquire Ushr, Inc. (“Ushr”). Upon closing, the deal will establish a single, enhanced platform for accelerated development and delivery of high-definition (HD) mapping solutions for autonomous vehicles and advanced
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
REDLANDS, Calif.- Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced that Dr. Dawn Wright, the company’s chief scientist, will speak at the College of William & Mary on February 14, 2019. Her talk will be part of the school’s 100 Years of Women celebration and the United Nations’ International Day of Women and Girls
Wednesday, February 13th, 2019
Friedrichshafen, Madrid – Airbus Defence and Space and Hisdesat Servicios Estratégicos, S.A. have generated the first joint TerraSAR-X / PAZ Radar Interferogram. This milestone demonstrates the missions’ capacity for cross-sensor interferometry, whose processing is among the most challenging. Interferograms are typically used to derive the topographic elevation and deformation of the Earth’s surface, and are
