Friday, January 25th, 2019
“Road safety is an issue that does not receive anywhere near the attention it deserves – and it really is one of our great opportunities to save lives around the world,” Michael Bloomberg, WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Disease and Injuries. The Global Status Report on Road Safety of 2018 states that road traffic accidents
Friday, January 25th, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO – Enview, a Silicon Valley-based company using the latest in AI and machine learning to protect critical energy infrastructure and prevent incidents such as wildfires, leaks, and spills, announced that Dr. Eleanor Crane has been named the company’s first Chief Technical Officer. Crane brings to the team a unique balance of R&D prototyping with
Friday, January 25th, 2019
BELLEVUE, Wash. – EagleView®, the leading provider of aerial imagery and property data analytics for the government, insurance, construction and energy sectors, welcomes Michael Park to the executive team as its new Chief Product and Marketing Officer. Park will head all Product and Marketing teams to accelerate growth and innovation as the company expands from its
Friday, January 25th, 2019
SAN JOSE, Calif.- Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced that the YellowScan Surveyor from YellowScan has utilized Velodyne’s groundbreaking sensor technology to generate precise mapping data for an infrastructure construction project on one of Central Europe’s busiest roadways. YellowScan Surveyor, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) surveying system, improves upon previous time-intensive manual surveying processes by providing
Friday, January 25th, 2019
TEL AVIV, Israel – Precision agriculture intelligence leader Taranis, today announced the launch of its new solution that calculates and monitors the planting of seeds. Taranis is the first platform to offer farmers and agronomists a scalable answer to plot management strategy. The addition of an emergence solution to the company’s offerings reflect Taranis’ vision
Friday, January 25th, 2019
SANTA CLARA, Calif.- What’s New: Intel today introduced the Intel® RealSense™ Tracking Camera T265, a new class of stand-alone inside-out tracking device that will provide developers with a powerful building block for autonomous devices, delivering high-performance guidance and navigation. The T265 uses proprietary visual inertial odometry simultaneous localization and mapping (V-SLAM) technology with computing at
Friday, January 25th, 2019
Pushpin announced today that it had secured a contract with CoreLogic to automatically extract property attributes from aerial imagery using machine learning. Under the contract, Pushpin leveraged its deep learning platform to extract parcel information including roofing material and number of stories from 3-inch overhead and oblique imagery collected by Nearmap. Currently, CoreLogic relies on
Friday, January 25th, 2019
CANNES, France and WESTMINSTER, Colo. – Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33 %), and SSL, a Maxar Technologies company (NYSE: MAXR; TSX: MAXR), have completed an important milestone for the Telesat LEO constellation. The success of the consortium’s System Requirements Review (SRR) demonstrates increasing momentum for Telesat’s global communications
Thursday, January 24th, 2019
PETERSBURG, Fla.- Quantum Spatial, Inc. (QSI), the nation’s largest independent geospatial analytics firm, will showcase a number of innovative projects that it is doing with government agencies at the 2019 Esri Federal GIS Conference, taking place January 29-30 in Washington, D.C. QSI will feature work it has done with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM),
Thursday, January 24th, 2019
DES PLAINES, Ill.– USAA, one of the nation’s leading property casualty insurers serving more than 12.6 million active and former military members and their families, has joined the Geospatial Intelligence Center (GIC), an insurance industry consortium spearheaded by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). By joining the GIC, USAA will have access to the most advanced
