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...
Chesapeake Conservancy to Highlight Benefits of High-Resolution Dataset at Esri Federal User Conference
Annapolis, Md – The Chesapeake Conservancy will present at the opening plenary of the 2017 Esri Federal User Conference in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 13. The conference will be attended by thousands of the region’s Esri software users, including staff from federal...
25th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017)
The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2017 (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017) is the twenty fifth event in a series of symposia and workshops that began in 1993 with the aim of bringing together researchers, developers, users,...
DroneDeploy Adds Former NetSuite and Salesforce Executives to Expand its Global Partnerships and Engineering Expertise
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - DroneDeploy, the leading cloud-based drone software platform, announced today the addition of two new senior executives to further guide the enterprise adoption and scalability of its drone data platform. Scott Lumish, who previously held business...
Topcon GNSS Modular Receiver Integrates with a Wide-Range of Applications
LIVERMORE, Calif., USA/ CAPELLE A/D IJSSEL, The Netherlands – Topcon Positioning Group announces a new modular GNSS receiver system — the MR-2. The system combines all current and planned constellation tracking with a comprehensive set of communication interfaces...
The Getech Group Wins OGA 21CXRM Contract
Getech, providers of natural resources exploration data and information expertise, has been awarded a contract by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), in collboration with the 21CXRM Technical Advisory Committee, for a petroleum system related study of the United Kingdom...
OGC to initiate Phase 1 Development of Interoperability Standards for Underground Infrastructure Data
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that the Fund for the City of New York and its sister organization, the National Center for Civic Innovation, has made a $25,000 grant to the OGC. These funds, along with contributions from Ordnance Survey...
Sanborn to Begin Acquisition for Arkansas Statewide Orthoimagery Project
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. (Sanborn) aerial acquisition team will mobilize to Arkansas to collect high-resolution imagery to map the entire state of Arkansas under the 2017-2018 Statewide Orthoimagery Program. The firm will collect more...
DigitalGlobe Adds New, Innovative Partners to Its Rapidly Growing Geospatial Big Data Ecosystem
WESTMINSTER, Colo.- DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), the global leader in Earth imagery and information about our changing planet, announced the growth of its ecosystem of content producers and consumers who leverage the Company’s Geospatial Big Data analytics...
Leica Geosystems Partners with Geolantis to Integrate a Cloud Based Utility Mapping Platform
(Heerbrugg, Switzerland; Klagenfurt, Austria, 8 February 2017) – Leica Geosystems, global leader of measurement and digital reality capture technologies, has teamed with Geolantis, a provider and developer of the best-in-class cloud based utility mapping and...
