Humanitarian UAV Network founder Patrick Meier led a weeklong UAV training mission in Nepal, teaching engineering students at Kathmandu University how to use drones and image-processing software for humanitarian and disaster-response scenarios.
ESA Offering Free Course on EO for Monitoring Climate Change
The European Space Agency (ESA) introduced a free online course, featuring scientists and experts from ESA and other European research centers, to educate people about the science behind Earth observation (EO), and how it can help detect and monitor global climate change.
Newly Released Photo Catalog Puts US Landscapes On Exhibit
November 10, 2015 — The U.S. Geological Survey announced today that it has made part of a huge national repository of geographically referenced USGS field photographs publicly available. USGS geographers developed a simple, easy-to-use mapping portal called the Land...
Merrick Awarded Contract with Municipality of Anchorage
November 10, 2015 — Anchorage, AK – Merrick Alaska (www.merrick.com/Alaska) was recently awarded a contract to provide aerial photography and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) services for the Municipality of Anchorage, AK (MOA). This data will address...
Arithmetica Announces Pointfuse Hands-On Workshop at Capturing Reality Conference
Shepperton Studios, November 10, 2015 — Visitors to Capturing Reality – the new event for laser scanning, LiDAR and 3D data capture and modelling – will be able to get hands on with the latest rapid point cloud processing software, Pointfuse. Arithmetica, the...
Woolpert Acquires Leica ALS80 Lidar Systems to Expand Aerial Data Acquisition Capacity
DAYTON, Ohio, Nov. 10, 2015 — Woolpert today announced it has acquired three new Leica ALS80 Airborne Laser Scanners. The addition of the industry-leading lidar systems allows the national architecture, engineering and geospatial firm to further expand its aerial...
Leica GeoMoS Solution Moves Beyond Classic Geodetic Monitoring
HEERBRUGG, SWITZERLAND, November 10, 2015 — Leica Geosystems, leader of measurement and reality capture technologies, announced today two new additions to its deformation monitoring solution, Leica GeoMos; GeoMoS AnyData and GeoMoS API. Enabling powerful sensor...
RIEGL at 3D Laser Mapping’s User Conference “Digital Information in 3D” in London
November 10, 2015 — November 4 and 5, 2015, RIEGL attended and presented at 3D Laser Mapping’s User Conference “Digital Information in 3D†at the Prince Philip House in London. At the event, the new RIEGL VZ-400i terrestrial laser scanner was officially...
Gold Sponsor 1Spatial Introduces 1Integrate for ArcGIS to Esri Middle East & North Africa Users
Cambridge, UK, November 10, 2015 — (www.1spatial.com) 1Spatial, the global spatial software firm which manages the world’s largest spatial data, will be exhibiting and presenting at the forthcoming Esri Middle East and North Africa User Conference (MENAUC)....
SimActive Strengthens its Enterprise UAV Offering with Version 6.3
Montreal, Canada, November 10, 2015 — SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce Correlator3D™ version 6.3 with an expanded UAV enterprise offering. A new floating licensing option allows computers on the same...