SAN FRANCISCO -Â Today, The Trust for Public Land launched www.ParkServe.TPL.org, providing free, easy-to-navigate access to the most comprehensive database on parks ever assembled. The site includes information for 14,000 cities with a combined population of more...
Velodyne LiDAR Boosts GPS Industry With LiDAR USA at AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2018
SAN JOSE, Calif.- Demand for 3-D scanning technology keeps rising in vehicle safety, aerial mapping, and security, but not all options can strike the perfect balance between reliability and affordability. Many systems can be large, just as heavy, and expensive to...
Airbus Aerial and DroneBase Team Up for the World's First Multi-Source Data Services Solution
ATLANTA and LOS ANGELES - Airbus Aerial and DroneBase, the largest global drone operations company, today announced a partnership that delivers the world's first multi-source data service solution for aerial imagery and data from a single provider. This effort enables...
UTC Aerospace Systems To Support United States Special Operations Command’s Mid-Endurance UAS Program
DENVER -Â UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), announced today that it will be part of the U.S. Special Operations Command's (USSOCOM) Mid-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems (MEUAS III) program. As a subcontractor to two companies...
Bluesky LiDAR Supports Major Irish Water Supply Project
Detailed 3D data captured using aircraft mounted laser is helping RPS plan, design and engineer a major overhaul of water supplies in County Wicklow, Ireland. The Bluesky LiDAR data was used to assess various route options as water supply in the region south of Dublin...
Ursa to Extract Oil Demand Information from ICEYE's Satellite Data
Helsinki, FINLAND – ICEYE, an Earth observation company providing synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data, and Ursa Space Systems (Ursa), a Space data analytics company, announced at GEOINT Symposium an agreement where ICEYE will provide satellite data to Ursa. The...
US Geological Survey Selects Hexagon to Upgrade Machine Learning Tool
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.- The US Geological Survey (USGS) has selected Hexagon US Federal to upgrade the machine learning-based Land Cover Mapping (LCM) tool. Through more than a decade of success using the LCM tool powered by Hexagon’s ERDAS IMAGINE, the USGS has continued...
First Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) and Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) Certified by UL
Northbrook, IL – Unmanned or automated electric vehicles and systems are now available with UL electrical system safety certification, as UL issues the first UL 3030 certification for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to the Intel® Falcon 8+ drone, a...
Asia Air Survey Co. Ltd. Acquires Optech Galaxy for Mountain and Forestry Surveying
April 26, 2018 — Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce that Asia Air Survey Co. (AAS), Tokyo, Japan, has taken delivery of an ALTM Galaxy T1000 for use in their forest resource management initiatives, road and railway facility management, as well as slope stability...
Foremost UAS Test Range Acquires Integrated Drone Airspace Management System from Kongsberg Geospatial and uAvionix
OTTAWA, Ontario -Â Kongsberg Geospatial, an Ottawa-based geospatial visualisation software company, and the Foremost UAS Test Range, who operate one of only two Transport Canada certified UAS test ranges in Canada, announced today that they have integrated the...
