Friday, July 16th, 2021
LONDON – You can’t see them, but they’re there: an astonishing number of satellites in the earth’s orbit at any given time. Next, add half the globe’s population capturing GPS location data from smartphones every second, and together, all of this geolocated data creates a digital map in real time, ready to be harnessed and
Friday, July 16th, 2021
SkyGrid, a Boeing, SparkCognition company has been selected to participate in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign. The award focuses on system development through the integrated vehicle and airspace demonstrations in real-world scenarios. Developing a safe and effective aerial mobility infrastructure is a critical prerequisite to large scale commercialization of air taxis, cargo delivery
Thursday, July 15th, 2021
REDLANDS, Calif.- Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced it is releasing a new high-resolution, 2050 global land cover map as part of the company’s Living Atlas. Built in partnership with Clark Labs and using European Space Agency (ESA) 2010 and 2018 climate change initiative (CCI) satellite imagery, the map lets users see how the world’s
Thursday, July 15th, 2021
A new dual-window scanner that halves data capture time headlines the latest Maptek mine measurement improvements. The exciting new Maptek XR3-D mkII laser scanner with dual window arrangement cuts scan acquisition time in half. Conventional terrestrial laser scanners capture data from one window, spinning to achieve a 360° field of view; the XR3-D captures
Thursday, July 15th, 2021
New Lineup Provides High Reliability and Reduced SWAP; Co-Packaged Solution for Space Delivers World-Class GaN FET Driver Performance TOKYO, Japan, July 15, 2021 ― Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today launched a new line of plastic-packaged radiation-hardened (rad-hard) devices for satellite power management systems. The four new devices
Wednesday, July 14th, 2021
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom – Juniper Systems Limited, a manufacturer of rugged handheld computers and GNSS receivers, today announced the launch of its new Cedar™ CT8X2 Rugged Tablet, running on the Android™ 10 operating system. Increased processing power, RAM, and storage are featured, while it retains the same ruggedness and powerful GNSS functionality of its predecessor, the CT8
Wednesday, July 14th, 2021
The POWER Engineers Incorporated (POWER) Board of Directors appointed Jim Haynes as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the firm on Friday, July 9. Haynes has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) for the past six years and was previously the Division Manager of POWER’s Facilities Division. “Jim leads by
Wednesday, July 14th, 2021
City of Austin, Texas, Selects Velodyne’s Solution for Traffic Safety Pilot Project SAN JOSE, Calif. (July 14, 2021) – Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (Nasdaq: VLDR, VLDRW) today announced it has joined the NVIDIA Metropolis program for Velodyne’s Intelligent Infrastructure Solution for traffic monitoring and analytics. NVIDIA Metropolis is designed to nurture and bring to market a
Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
In the mid-2030s, every U.S. coast will experience rapidly increasing high-tide floods, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea levels caused by climate change. High-tide floods—also called nuisance floods or sunny-day floods—are already a familiar problem in many cities on the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. – Umbra, a next-generation intelligence company, launched the first commercial microsatellite of its planned constellation on the SpaceX Transporter-2 mission. The Umbra SAR-2001 radar-imaging microsatellite rode into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Until now, access to high-resolution satellite imagery has been a privilege reserved for only
