Wednesday, September 14th, 2016
Using a new system of drifting buoys, scientists from NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, Calif., will have a much better chance of hearing beaked whales in their deep-water habitat off the West Coast. About 20 buoys will be deployed from a NOAA ship with a listening device suspended 330 feet below the
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016
The National League of Cities (NLC) released Cities and Drones, a new report that provides cities with insight on the recently released Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rules relating to drone operation. The report also provides suggestions for how local governments can craft their own drone ordinances to encourage innovation while protecting their cities. In addition
Friday, July 8th, 2016
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – A pair of University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) researchers aim to explore fundamental properties of infrasonic optical sensors that could make them more sensitive and accurate over long distances. The results of their research, which combines experiments and theoretical modeling, could impact future operation of these sensors in areas ranging from
Monday, March 21st, 2016
NACKA STRAND, Sweden — Hexagon (STO:HEXAB):Hexagon AB, a leading global provider of information technologies that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial enterprise applications, has entered into an agreement to acquire the GeoRadar division of the Italian-based company Ingegneria dei Sistemi S.p.A, a privately owned company with core expertise in radar-based solutions for multiple
Friday, March 4th, 2016
DALLAS — VectorNav Technologies introduced today the VN-360 GPS-Compass heading and position sensor. The VN-360 is an OEM GPS-Compass module that provides an accurate, True North heading solution for systems integrators seeking a reliable alternative to magnetic-based sensors. Many systems currently available on the market depend on digital magnetometers for providing heading measurements of a
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
On February 22 at ILMF 2016 in Denver, RIEGL launched two new High-Speed Mobile Mapping Turnkey Systems featuring this high performance VUX-1HA kinematic LiDAR sensor! RIEGL is proud to announce the first launch customers in the United States for these systems, David Evans and Associates, a renowned surveying firm based in Portland, Oregon and Surveying
Friday, January 22nd, 2016
As the advances in LiDAR technology and applications continue to drive a rapid increase in market value, Aerial Services has been committed to bringing those new capabilities to our clients. Beginning in 2012, with the purchase of a high-density corridor scanner and now in 2016 with the purchase of a Leica ALS70 Airborne LiDAR Sensor
Wednesday, January 20th, 2016
Kreuztal, January 20, 2016 — IGI launches the new AEROoffice & TERRAoffice software in version 5.4.50. This new AEROoffice & TERRAoffice version can do coverage maps for scanning sensors. But there is more. For example, the sensor footprint can be adjusted via the setup page. It is possible to select and define if the sensor has
Tuesday, September 15th, 2015
September 15, 2015 — Specim releases first professional quality hyperspectral sensor range, intended for UAV’s and other platforms of limited payload size, at InterGEO 2015.
Tuesday, September 8th, 2015
Rueil-Malmaison, France, September 8, 2015 – SBG SYSTEMS joins VIAMETRIS to present at the INTERGEO trade show, the new generation of the “iMMS”, called now “iMS 3D”, a mobile 3D indoor scanner generating continuous 3D point clouds. For this brand new model, VIAMETRIS chose SBG SYSTEMS’ miniature AHRS, the Ellipse-A.