April 12, 2016
Autodesk, Inc. will showcase its revamped ReCap offering at Booth #703 at the SPAR 3D Expo & Conference in The Woodlands, Texas. ReCap 360 PRO offers new packaging, new features, and best of all – dramatically low pricing! https://youtu.be/K0hCCX5T8Fc While the free version, ReCap 360, still exists, there is now only one option available for upgrade that unlocks the
September 11, 2015
Shepperton Studios, London, Sept. 10, 2015—Arithmetica, the company behind the rapid point cloud processing solution Pointfuse, will be demonstrating the latest version of the software at Intergeo. Featuring a brand new version of the point cloud engine, Pointfuse is now capable of producing easy to use 3D models from billions of individual laser scan measurements
April 15, 2015
April 15, 2015—Tropical forests play major roles in regulating Earth’s climate, but there are large uncertainties over how they’ll respond over the next 100 years as the planet’s climate warms. An expansive new project led by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) aims to bring the future of
March 5, 2015
March 4, 2015—NCTech Ltd, creators of the ground-breaking iSTAR 360° panoramic digital imaging device, is launching ColourCloud, the world’s fastest automatic HDR point cloud colourisation software. This offers speedy, pixel-perfect overlay to support iSTAR files and e57 industry standard laser scan outputs from leading scanner manufacturers including Trimble, Leica Geosystems and Faro. This now means that
March 4, 2015
March 4, 2015—The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding using the GML Coverage Application Schema Standard. This new addition to the netCDF suite of standards provides additional ways to serve complex multi-dimensional CF-netCDF data for use in geographic information systems (GIS) or other geospatial
March 1, 2015
Feb. 27, 2015—Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Common DataBase Standards Working Group. This Standards Working Group (SWG) is being formed to develop and propose one or more candidate standards for a common terrain database model and encoding useful for both runtime synthetic environment generation
February 26, 2015
Feb. 26, 2015—A new interactive online tool to improve flood warnings and emergency management is now available in selected parts of Johnson County, Kansas, and Jackson County, Missouri. These new maps were developed by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the City of Overland Park, Kansas, and the City of Kansas City, Missouri. This
February 12, 2015
Redlands, Calif., Feb. 12, 2015—Weather mapping goes beyond what's broadcast on the evening news. The new book Mapping and Modeling Weather and Climate with GIS, from Esri Press, describes how geographic information system (GIS) technology can be coupled with atmospheric and climate sciences data to do research. "Weather and climate information is innately geospatial," May Yuan, Ashbel
April 9, 2015
OGC Seeks Public Comment on the OGC WaterML2.0: Part 2 – Ratings, Gaugings and Sections Standard
April 9, 2015—The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate WaterML2.0 - part 2: Ratings, Gaugings and Sections Standard. WaterML2.0 represents an initiative within the joint World Meteorological Organization (WMO) / OGC Hydrology Domain Working Group to address standards development and interoperability of hydrological information systems at an international