San Francisco - The forest manager’s nightmare of struggling to manage widely dispersed forestry assets in remote, challenging, and inaccessible locations is now a thing of the past with  PlanetWatchers’ new Foresights Analytics Platform (Foresights).  ...
Fugro’s New RAMMS Technology Advances Bathymetric LIDAR mapping Capabilities
Fugro is introducing a new bathymetric lidar system that delivers industry-leading depth penetration and point densities for nearshore and coastal mapping. Known as RAMMS (Rapid Airborne Multibeam Mapping System), the field-proven technology promises to deliver an...
Blippar Launches Indoor Visual Positioning System for Enhanced Location-Based Augmented Reality
LONDON and NEW YORK - Blippar, the leading augmented reality and computer vision company, today announced the launch of its new indoor visual positioning system (watch demo video here). By pairing the accuracy of indoor visual positioning using computer vision with...
Orbit GT Releases Free Esri ArcGIS Pro Add-in for 3D Mapping Cloud and 3DM Publisher
Orbit GT releases the free ArcGIS Pro plugin for its 3D Mapping Cloud SaaS platform and on-premise 3DM Publisher. “The ArcGIS Pro plugin opens a complete new world to all ArcGIS Pro usersâ€, says Peter Bonne, CEO of Orbit GT. “It provides access to massive 3D...
Industrial SkyWorks Releases Latest BlueVu Software for Drone Inspections
TORONTO, Ontario -Â Industrial SkyWorks is pleased to announce the official launch of BlueVu for digital inspections from drone-data. Â As one of the most trusted names in the industry, Industrial SkyWorks offers cutting edge drone inspection solutions. Industrial...
Indiana Department of Transportation Selects Continental Mapping for Statewide Bridge Mapping Contract
(Sun Prairie, WI) – August, 2018 – The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) has selected Continental Mapping to provide bridge mapping services for over 2,000 bridges throughout Indiana. The four year on-call contract will task Continental Mapping to...
Airbus-built Aeolus Satellite Ready to Take on the Wind
Stevenage/Kourou, 09/08/2018 - Aeolus, the European Space Agency’s wind sensing satellite, has been encapsulated into the Vega launcher at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou ready for launch on the 21 August. Built by Airbus, Aeolus will be the first satellite...
Energy Web Atlas Launches World Pipeline Dataset
HOUSTON -Â Gulf Energy Information, a leading provider of market intelligence and technical information for the international energy industry, announced Tuesday the introduction of the World Pipeline layer to the Energy Web Atlas (EWA). Energy Web Atlas, an ESRI-based...
Trimble RTX Correction Technology Now Delivers Two Centimeter Accuracy for a Broad Range of Positioning Applications
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that its Trimble RTX™ GNSS corrections technology can now achieve horizontal accuracies of better than two centimeters. Start-up times, commonly referred to as convergence, have also improved. Users can...
Hexagon Expands Content Program to Increase Coverage and Access of Air-Borne Imagery
(WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 7, 2018) – Hexagon’s Geosystems Division, the smart digital realities provider, announced today updates for the 2018 airborne imagery collection plans of the Hexagon Imagery Program (HxIP), the premier source for professional airborne...