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Tuesday, February 6th, 2018

YellowScan Unveils its New UAV-LiDAR System

The Surveyor Ultra is the new system from YellowScan, integrating the Velodyne VLP-32C scanner & the Applanix APX-15 IMU. Thanks to its high-density (600 000 shots per second), the system is ideally suited for high speed UAVs &...

Tuesday, February 6th, 2018

Trimble Acquires e-Builder to Expand its Construction Management Solutions

SUNNYVALE, Calif. —Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today it has acquired privately-held e-Builder, a leading SaaS-based construction program management solution for capital program owners and program management firms. e-Builder extends Trimble's ability to accelerate industry transformation by providing...

Tuesday, February 6th, 2018

Blue Marble to Showcase Global Mapper’s Pixels-to-Points Tool at the ILMF/ASPRS Annual Conference

Hallowell, Maine - Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting and delivering two presentations at the combined International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) and American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)...

Tuesday, February 6th, 2018

SkyWatch Raises Seed Financing of $4M CAD [$3.2M USD] to Bring Satellite Data to the Mass Market

WATERLOO, Ontario - SkyWatch Space Applications Inc. (“SkyWatch”), a Waterloo-based startup, announced today it has raised $4M CAD to continue the development of the world’s largest aggregation and distribution platform for satellite data. Their innovative...

Tuesday, February 6th, 2018

DroneDeploy Launches New Cloud-Based Drone Software for Roofing Industry

SAN FRANCISCO - DroneDeploy, the leading drone mapping software platform in the world, today announced the launch of a drone solution for the roofing industry that automatically generates accurate and comprehensive roof analytics. For the first time,...

Tuesday, February 6th, 2018

HP Launches the World’s Most Secure Large Format Printers for GIS Mapping

PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP Inc. today introduced HP DesignJet T1700 printers, next-generation 44-inch solutions for CAD and geographic information system (GIS) workgroups to produce highly accurate documents and maps with powerful processing and a new level...

Tuesday, February 6th, 2018

SkyPixel Unveils The Best Aerial Photos of 2017

SHENZHEN, China - SkyPixel, the world's most popular aerial photography community run in cooperation with DJI, today announced the winners of its 2017 Photo Story Contest. The contest, which ran from October to December 2017, received over...

Monday, February 5th, 2018

Indonesia’s Geospatial Information Agency Announces Winner of US$ 1 Million Peatland Mapping Prize

The Indonesian Government’s Geospatial Information Agency (BIG) announced the winners of the Indonesian Peat Prize on the World’s Wetlands Day yesterday. Read More at OpenGovAsia

Monday, February 5th, 2018

Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Launches UAE-Made KhalifaSat

DUBAI - Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Ruler of Dubai, launched the domestically manufactured satellite KhalifaSat on Saturday. Read More at Kuna

Monday, February 5th, 2018

Russia, Japan and China Launch Satellites in Back-to-Back Missions

Three different rockets - one each from Russia, China and Japan - launched satellites into orbit over three days in back-to-back-to-back space missions. Read More at Space.com