Thursday, July 13th, 2017
REDLANDS, Calif. — Land cover mapping is a critical part of conservation planning, but current methods for collecting detailed geographic data are highly labor-intensive. Advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) can help but are not yet widely accessible to those on the front lines of conservation and mapping. That is why Esri today announced a
Monday, May 22nd, 2017
Orbit GT releases v17.1 of it’s industry-leading Mobile Mapping Content Manager product including the all-new Upload to the Cloud feature. It is available for download today from our website www.orbitgt.com. “This upgrade included the capability to upload an Mobile Mapping content directly to 3dmapping.cloud, our SaaS and cloud based online platform”, says Peter Bonne, CEO
Friday, April 7th, 2017
The popularity of Cadcorp SIS in local government continues as a web mapping engagement with South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) becomes the latest contract secured by the GIS software and services company. Cadcorp will initially be supplying its off-the-shelf product Web Map Layers with supporting Cadcorp desktop software, training and associated services. GIS is a corporate
Tuesday, March 14th, 2017
Aeromon, a Finnish cleantech startup that utilizes its innovative analytics platform and mobile sensors to flexibly map emissions in real-time, successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of drone-mounted platforms for measuring industrial emissions. A pilot program at the Ämmässuo waste treatment centre (operated by the Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority HSY, Finland) compared historical data captured using
Monday, February 20th, 2017
To create the detailed maps needed for autonomous vehicles, Vollkswagen has partnered with Mobileye, to turn its fleet of vehicles into map data gathering machines. The German company will help will Mobileye to create the detailed maps needed for autonomous vehicles. Soon all new VWs equipped with the supplier’s camera-based ADAS system will be sending
Friday, February 10th, 2017
Geographic data specialist Bluesky has secured funding from the UK government’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, to investigate the potential of mobile phones for capturing accurate 3D spatial information. Designed to reduce the costs of monitoring and managing essential infrastructure, such as overhead electricity cables, and mitigate the effects of potentially damaging vegetation, the Bluesky led
Tuesday, February 7th, 2017
Conservation Service (NRCS) in California has concluded an eight-year project creating an inventory of the soil properties and their associated landscapes within the southeastern section of Los Angeles County. The City of Los Angeles, included in this survey, was the largest U.S. city without a completed soil survey. “The process of mapping and cataloging the
Friday, February 3rd, 2017
Redlands, California—The new edition of Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine from Esri traces the long history of how maps have been used to help unlock the mysteries behind the cause and spread of diseases such as cholera, yellow fever, and Ebola.Cartographies of Disease was first published in 2005 and showed how maps could
Friday, February 3rd, 2017
After Rwanda made waves in the news early last year for allegedly being the first country to approve drone delivery, people payed attention. The country, with its rolling hills and one of the fastest growing economies in Central Africa has already established regulations regarding drones and become a vanguard of sorts for the region. “My impression is
Thursday, February 2nd, 2017
DENVER, Colorado, USA – TCarta Marine LLC of Denver, Colo., has merged with Proteus Geo of Oxford, UK, to create a global mapping company that provides bathymetric and marine data sets from the shallow coastal zone out to the continental shelf. The new company is called TCarta Marine and will maintain offices in Denver and
