Portland, OR – VR/AR collaboration platform The Wild released three new additions to their building information modeling (BIM) toolset, which will allow architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) teams to coordinate and collaborate more effectively on their...
New Book Examines Earth Imaging for GIS
To familiarize GIS professionals and students with the advanced Earth-imaging technologies available today, Esri published Essential Earth Imaging for GIS, which provides a basic education in remote-sensing technology, promoting the effective use of sophisticated multispectral and 3D imagery.
GA-ASI Announces Strategic Partnership with Bharat Forge to Manufacture Aerostructures
SAN DIEGO – In a major move to boost manufacturing in India, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and Bharat Forge Limited, India have announced a partnership to manufacture main landing gear components, subassemblies, and assemblies of remotely piloted...
OGC adopts ARML 2.0, New Open Standard Encoding for Sharing Augmented Reality Data
Feb.25, 2015 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the OGC® Augmented Reality Markup Language 2.0 Interface Standard (ARML 2.0). ARML 2.0 provides a free and open, non-proprietary encoding that augmented reality (AR) content providers...
Maxar’s MDA Selected to Provide Subsystem Designs for Next-Generation International Mars Rover Mission
MDA, a Maxar Technologies company (NYSE: MAXR) (TSX: MAXR), announced today that it was selected by Airbus to provide a conceptual design of a rover mobility system and sample acquisition system planned to explore Mars and acquire samples that will be returned to...
FLIR Launches Next-Generation Black Hornet 3 Nano-UAV
WILSONVILLE, Ore.-FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) today announced the Black Hornet® 3 nano-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for use by global militaries, government agencies, and first responders. The Black Hornet Personal Reconnaissance System (PRS) is already the...
Delair Announces Global Availability of Most Advanced & Cost Effective Large Area Mapping UAV for Geospatial Professionals
SOUTH PASADENA, CA, TOULOUSE, France. – Delair, a leading supplier of commercial drone solutions, today announced the global availability of its breakthrough Delair UX11 fixed-wing UAV, an innovative hardware-software platform that provides highly accurate images...
Esri Releases New Arctic Elevation Data
REDLANDS, Calif.- Global smart-mapping leader Esri and the ArcticDEM project, a public-private initiative to produce high-resolution, high-quality digital elevation models (DEM) of the Arctic, have released new elevation models and enriched those previously released....
Teledyne Optech Announces New Efficiency Enhancement for ALTM Galaxy Wide-Area Lidar Mapping Sensor
Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce a high-performance scanner update to its innovative line of airborne laser terrain mappers, the Optech Galaxy ALTM™. The Galaxy’s scan efficiency has been engineered to deliver an additional 30% boost to its class-leading...
MGISS Partners with European Space Agency to Sponsor Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival
Liverpool, UK, 17 August 2020 – Liverpool based technology company Mobile GIS Services (MGISS) is working with the European Space agency (ESA) to showcase the potential of satellite positioning systems and imagery in tackling some of the environmental and societal...
