Australia has recently announced a 1.8m shift in its mapping coordinates, to compensate for the country’s 7.5cm shift north each year. Inevitably the question is why, and could the same thing happen here? In Australia, the shift is to take into account the growing...
Drone Operators Can Take to the Skies with New senseFly Financing and Insurance Packages
LONDON, August 2, 2016 – Today senseFly is enabling professional U.S. drone operators to take to the skies faster than ever before. By partnering with Ascentium Capital and Transport Risk Management, senseFly is offering new drone insurance, finance and leasing...
isWhere 3.1.0: Geotagged Imagery- Easy viewing on Google Earth, Fast Processing
Fort Collins, CO -Â Red Hen Systems (RHS), LLC, today announced a new release, isWhere 3.1.0, a media mapping add-on tool for viewing geotagged imagery on Google Earthâ„¢. isWhere 3.1.0 is for professionals and enthusiasts who want a quick, straightforward, affordable...
U.S. Navy Awards Defense Contract to Esri
Redlands, California —Seaport-e, the U.S. Navy's electronic platform for acquiring support services, has awarded Esri a defense contract for its unique geographic information system (GIS) technology services. SeaPort-e provides a standardized, efficient means of...
Esri and Leica Partner to Offer Grants to Governments
Redlands, California—Geographic information system (GIS) provider Esri has partnered with Swiss-based spatial measurement instrument manufacturer Leica Geosystems to encourage innovation of mobile field data collection in government by offering grants totaling...
Supergeo Will Showcase Latest Geospatial Solutions at GSDI 15
The global GIS software and solution provider, Supergeo Technologies Inc., will bring the latest geospatial solutions and products at GSDI 15 world conference in Taipei, Taiwan. The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) World Conference is an international...
Trimble Acquires AXIO-NET GmbH – Recognized Provider of GNSS Services
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the acquisition of AXIO-NET GmbH from Airbus Defence and Space. Based in Hannover, Germany, AXIO-NET is a prominent provider of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) corrections and professional data...
Drone Mapping Software Provider Pix4D Elevates Agriculture Software to Desktop & Cloud Solution, Launches Flexible Monthly Rental Option at InfoAg
Today Pix4D announces its first hybrid processing solution: this week, users of Sequoia with a license of Pix4Dmapper Ag will be able to process both locally in Pix4Dmapper Ag and on the Pix4Dcloud. Together with this announcement, Pix4D also introduces very flexible...
Pixel-array Quantum Cascade Detector Paves the Way for Portable Thermal Imaging Devices
WASHINGTON- The primary source of infrared radiation is heat — the radiation produced by the thermal motion of charged particles in matter, including the motion of the atoms and molecules in an object. The higher the temperature of an object, the more its atoms and...
Pokévision and Esri Speed Pokémon Go Hunting
Redlands, California — Esri, the world’s leading developer of GIS software, announced today that Pokévision, a third-party app for the viral mobile game Pokémon Go, uses Esri’s award-winning location-based data and mapping platform ArcGIS to help players of...
