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NV5 Awarded $9 Million for Transport Infrastructure Improvement

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NV5 Awarded $9 Million for Transport Infrastructure Improvement

NV5 Global announced that it has been selected for $9 million in significant contract awards to support transportation infrastructure improvement projects throughout the United States.

NV5 will provide an array of services to support these projects, including engineering design, surveying, utility engineering and planning, and inspection services.

“NV5’s embedded relationships with departments of transportation and municipalities allow us to make a meaningful impact on essential transportation that improves the quality of life and economic development of the communities we serve,” said Dickerson Wright, PE, Chairman and CEO of NV5.

“The non-discretionary nature of infrastructure improvements and maintenance drives public sector investment during good and bad economic times, and we look forward to our continued role in supporting the nation’s transportation systems.”

NV5 was awarded $4 million in New York State transportation projects. The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) selected NV5 to provide inspection services for a priority resurfacing project in NYSDOT’s Region 10.

The New York City Department of Design and Construction selected NV5 to provide preliminary and final design services for roadway improvements in Queens, and the Suffolk County Department of Public Works selected NV5 to deliver engineering design for the Nicolls Road Corridor Multi-Use Path in the towns of Islip and Brookhaven.

In the County of Merced, California, NV5 was awarded a $2.5 million contract to provide not-at-risk construction management and staff augmentation. NV5 has provided construction management services for Merced County on multiple on-call and turn-key projects for nine years.

NV5 was awarded $2.5 million in roadway improvement projects in the Southeast. Henry County, Georgia selected NV5 to provide engineering design and surveying for a 2.4-mile roadway widening, and NV5 was awarded a contract by the North Carolina Department of Transportation to provide planning, design, and traffic services for the new U-5901 roadway in Salisbury, North Carolina.

EagleView Expands Imagery Archive and Resolution Options

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EagleView Expands Imagery Archive and Resolution Options

EagleView announced the expansion of its EagleView Cloud offering to all customers following a successful launch for Government customers.

EagleView Cloud for enterprise is a one-stop shop for customers who want access to high-quality and frequently captured aerial imagery that can be used to improve their capacity to make data-driven decisions.

“With EagleView Cloud for enterprise and our innovative, patented capture technologies, we are advancing our capabilities to provide customers and the market with a platform and data that meets their needs,” said Chris Jurasek, EagleView’s Chief Executive Officer. “This is an exciting time for us here as we continue to push the envelope in geospatial and aerial imagery innovation.”

In addition to expanded availability in roofing, solar, insurance, infrastructure and other commercial markets, EagleView Cloud will now cover more than 94% of the US population.

This includes 1”, 3” and 6” image capture over more urban areas flown as frequently as 2x per year. With the inclusion of more frequent and distributed images, EagleView reaffirms its position as the leader and industry standard for customers who need property-specific imagery and data.

These upgrades enable process improvements across multiple industries, such as:

  • Residential and commercial property service providers who want to improve their business processes by reducing the number of site visits and surveys, thus reducing everyday operating expenses.
  • Companies need to assess and respond to changes in landscape by vegetation or by building expansion.
  • Insurance carriers can now utilize improved access to pre-event imagery to better understand the severity of claims and more rapidly respond and process those claims with greater confidence.

“EagleView’s product offering is second to none. Here at Deep Lawn, we utilize the imagery and data to analyze the scope and condition of an end user’s lot and empower our customers to make better project bids,’ said Joel Northrup, Deep Lawn’s Chief Executive Officer. “Having easy access to such amazing data and imagery helps keep Deep Lawn the industry leader in Landscape Technology.”

Location Technologies Transforming Retail and Commerce Industry

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Location Technologies Transforming Retail and Commerce Industry

Location-based services are one of the emerging technologies that will reshape the retail and commerce sectors in this new decade. 4 ways in which location-based technologies have revolutionized the retail and commerce industries in recent years are-

  • Marketing: One of the most significant ways in which location technology has impacted retail is through location-based marketing. By using a geographic information system (GIS), retailers can target their advertising and promotions to customers based on their geographic location. IKEA, for example, uses geo-location technologies to drive footfalls to its stores. In a limited-time campaign, IKEA UAE used Google Maps Timeline to allow its customers to convert their commute time into currency and make purchases with the accumulated time. The campaign not only increased its footfall but also motivated shoppers to make multiple visits for greater savings.
  • Supply chain management: By using location-based technology, retailers can track the location and status of their products throughout the supply chain, from the manufacturer to the store. This allows them to optimise their logistics operations and ensure that products are delivered to stores in a timely manner. Starbucks has created a digital traceability tool that allows customers to track the origin of their coffee beans. Using their mobile or laptop devices, customers can scan or enter the number on the back of any bag of Starbucks’ whole bean coffee. The app will display information about where the packaged coffee comes from and its entire journey from bean to final bag.
  • E-commerce: In e-commerce, it can help retailers better understand their customer’s preferences and behaviors. By analysing customer data, retailers can identify patterns of customer behaviour and use this information to personalise their marketing campaigns and product offerings. For example, if a customer has been reviewing a product online, they may get a notification that the product is in stock at a nearby store. ZARA stores are equipped with Radio Frequency Identification Technology (RFID), using cutting-edge systems to track the location of garments instantly and making those most in demand rapidly available to customers. Through the ZARA app and website, customers can check store stocks in real-time, so that they could make purchases online and pick up their selections in-store almost immediately.
  • Inventory management: Retailers can use location technology to track the movement of products throughout their stores. This can help them identify which products are selling well and which are not and make adjustments to their inventory accordingly. For example, Walmart uses an array of sensors, cameras and processors to monitor its product inventory and availability. Using Artificial Intelligence, the system has been trained to detect items on the shelves, recognize the specific product types, and compare the quantities on the shelves to the predicted sales demand. The system automatically triggers out-of-stock notifications to internal apps that alert store employees to re-stock particular items.

Interested in learning more? Geospatial World is hosting a one-day seminar on Retail and Commerce: Driving Innovation with Location Intelligence at Geospatial World Forum on May 4, 2023, in person in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The seminar will discuss how location-based technologies can help retailers and the commerce sector to drive innovation by providing insights that can inform strategic decision-making and improve operational efficiency.

Some of the key speakers include:

  • Gladis Araujo, VP Global Quality Systems & Supply Chain | Mattel | The Netherlands
  • Mayank Singh, Head of Digital Business, Marketing & Technology | Domino’s | Indonesia
  • Hannah Babineau, Head of Partnerships | The Data Appeal Company | Italy
  • Krishen Joshi, Head of Marketing Science | Mindshare |UK
  • Rakesh Rana, Head of Data | Haypp Group | Sweden
  • Anna Baecklund, Head of Data Science | ICA Sverige AB | Sweden
  • Sesillia Pongoh, CEO – Founder | Locator Logic Solutions | Indonesia
  • Russell Peterson, E-commerce Manager North America | Harley-Davidson | USA
  • Pranav Saxena, VP Product | Flipkart | India
  • Michael Ashmore, Sr Director, Product Management | Precisely | USA
  • Yanqing Zeng, Lead Data Scientist | JLL | France

Take a look at the agenda and register to secure your seat.

Turkey Earthquake: Before and After Satellite Images Show Extent of Destruction

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Turkey Earthquake: Before and After Satellite Images Show Extent of Destruction
Turkey earthquake Before and After Satellite Images Show Extent of Destruction

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Turkey and Syria on 6 February 2023. Tall buildings have collapsed like a house of cards, filling the streets with debris, while others withstood the violent shaking. See the devastating impact of the recent earthquake in Turkey through before and after satellite images released by Maxar Technologies.

Also Watch: 2022 A Year in Review through Satellite Imageries

Nokia Expands LaaS Solution for Digital Transformation of Enterprises

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Nokia Expands LaaS Solution for Digital Transformation of Enterprises

Nokia announced that it is expanding its Lab-as-a-Service (LaaS) solution to include the validation testing of industrial user equipment and third-party devices connecting people and machines over Nokia digital automation cloud (DAC) and modular private wireless (MPW) networks.

This will allow enterprises to streamline the testing of equipment and Industry 4.0 use cases over private wireless to assess how they will help achieve their digital transformation goals. A dedicated device testing facility in Bangalore, India will allow more customers to accelerate Industry 4.0 service adoption.

Nokia LaaS will enable enterprise customers to assess how devices and equipment working over 4.9G/LTE and 5G private wireless networks, will support their implementation of Industry 4.0 use cases.

Leveraging Nokia Digital Automated Cloud (DAC) and Modular Private Wireless (MPW) customers will be able to see how enterprise, third-party or Nokia Industrial devices such as handhelds, fieldrouters, dongles and wearables will connect machines and people and how that can advance their digitalization journey.

Device validation consists of standardized testing packages. Vertical segments will benefit from Nokia’s extensive network, connectivity knowledge and rapid access to a range of pre-tested validation services. Enterprises can ensure any device functions well within a Nokia private wireless environment, and guarantee they meet the performance requirements of any use case.

The new Nokia LaaS device validation capabilities complement an already extensive range of services supporting chipset, device manufacturers, communication service providers (CSPs) and enterprises who want to introduce new elements in their devices and networks.

These include the development testing of equipment and applications, certification, proof of concept testing of solutions and features and factory acceptance testing.

Industry digitalization enables enterprises to leverage and manipulate their operational technology (OT) to transform processes and achieve business goals.

Widespread implementation of autonomous robots, zero-fault manufacturing, predictive maintenance and other Industry 4.0 use cases rely on the secure real-time connectivity of people and machines using a range of devices. With no investment required by the customer, Nokia LaaS will allow enterprises to test device capabilities in Nokia labs or at their premises.

Nokia LaaS facilities are already in operation in the United States, Europe, South Korea and Japan, Nokia will now expand the service by opening a dedicated device testing facility for enterprise customers in Bangalore, India.

Kitty Weldon, Principal Analyst at GlobalData, said: “The expanded Nokia LaaS solution provides unique benefits to enterprises that are planning to deploy private wireless networks but may be concerned with cost, complexity, or device performance. By providing a complete test environment on an opex basis, enterprises can eliminate much of the expense and worry about how their devices and applications will perform, not just in a theoretical network, but for their specific deployment and use cases. The flexibility of the testing service, which can be performed at a Nokia site or on the customer premise, adds to the ease-of-use. LaaS for enterprises not only provides differentiation for Nokia but should help substantially with customer adoption of private wireless networks for Industry 4.0 digitalization.”

Stephan Litjens, Vice President of Enterprise Campus Edge Solutions of Nokia, said: “Nokia is committed to supporting our enterprise customers to achieve their digitalization goals in the most intuitive ways. Device validation will be an essential part of Lab-as-a-Service, allowing them to accelerate service adoption. Enterprises will be able to experiment with devices, use cases, with no up-front investment, to see how they deliver the greatest value from their operations over private wireless networks using Nokia DAC or MPW. In addition, by opening the dedicated facility in Bangalore, we can extend these capabilities to even more enterprise customers across the world.”

AlphaRTK Announces Free Educational RTK Access

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AlphaRTK Announces Free Educational RTK Access
AlphaRTK Founder, Chris Kahn, explains high-precision aerial mapping methods to Warren Community College UAS (drone) students. (Photo: Business Wire)
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AlphaRTK Founder, Chris Kahn, explains high-precision aerial mapping methods to Warren Community College UAS (drone) students. (Photo: Business Wire)

AlphaRTK, a real-time kinematic (RTK) service provider, announced today it will provide students and faculty of Rutgers University, West Chester University, and Warren County Community College free access to its global navigation satellite system (GNSS) correction network. AlphaRTK is the most affordable, privately held, RTK subscription network to fully support four-constellation GNSS corrections. The service is currently available for use in New Jersey, as well as both the New York City and Philadelphia metropolitan areas.

“These educational institutions perform a tremendous amount of geospatial research and instruction,” AlphaRTK Founder Chris Kahn said. “We believe they should be equipped with this powerful resource, as it will enhance their abilities to perform modern geospatial data collection.”

A real-time kinematic (RTK) network is a system of ground-based stations that use data from navigation satellites to provide centimeter-accurate real-time coordinate data to users in such fields as GIS (geographic information systems), engineering, surveying, construction, agriculture, and more. The accuracy enables high precision in research conducted by the schools.

“Warren specializes in precision agriculture using drones,” said Dr. Will Austin, Warren County Community College President. “The AlphaRTK network will provide our fleet with centimeter accuracy, further enhancing our analytical capabilities.”

Typically, technicians use wireless devices to receive the correction data directly into a mapping application, such as Esri ArcGIS Field Maps, however, AlphaRTK also records RINEX data that can be used for post-processing workflows, such as with PPK drones.

“The use of AlphaRTK at The Center for Turfgrass Science is a game changer,” said Dr. James Murphy, a plant biology professor at Rutgers University. “We have tens of thousands of individual turf specimens spaced only inches apart on our farms. The location accuracy from the AlphaRTK service enables us to map and analyze growth patterns with unprecedented accuracy.”

“I am excited to utilize the AlphaRTK network this spring in my geophysics course,” said Dr. Martin Helmke, a West Chester University geology professor. “Students will be using RTK technology when they graduate, so it’s important to give them exposure to this technology now.”

“At AlphaRTK, we view supporting the Geospatial Community as a responsibility,” Kahn said. “Educational institutions are encouraged to contact us about our partner program.”

Satellite Images Show the Real Picture of Turkey Earthquake

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Satellite Images Show the Real Picture of Turkey Earthquake
Islahiye, Turkey before being hit by the earthquake | Satellite Imagery © Maxar Technologies Provided by European Space Imaging

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Turkey and Syria on 6 February. The official death toll is more than 8,000 people. Tall buildings have collapsed like a house of cards, filling the streets with debris, while others withstood the violent shaking. Emergency rescue operations are underway to find survivors in affected areas.

Disaster management and satellite data

Over the past few years, there has been almost a fivefold increase in disaster events, which includes landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, and floods. In the immediate aftermath of these disasters, satellite imagery can help reduce further humanitarian impact and loss of life. Satellite technology provides accurate and reliable data using high-resolution, multispectral imaging techniques.

Turkey earthquake imagery by Maxar

European Space Imaging has collected fresh, Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery over several affected areas in Turkey. Maxar Technologies acquired the images with GeoEye-1 and WorldView. The photos show detailed bird’s-eye views of three Turkish towns, Islahiye, Nurdağı, and Düziçi, after the earthquake struck.

The imagery highlights damaged residential areas, relief tents on football fields, and the congested D400 highway that has had traffic diverted to it as the TAG Highway is closed due to damage from the earthquake.

Reportedly, a Chinese Chaohu-1 satellite by Changsha-based Spacety Co Ltd also released satellite imagery of the earthquake zone. The radar remote sensing images of the surrounding area of the epicenter were obtained at 11:05 am local time on Monday. 

Satellite image taken by Chaohu-1. Photo: Courtesy of Spacety

Meanwhile, Al Jazeera report includes Mapbox, OpenStreetMap shows that the earthquake struck southeastern Turkey along its border with Syria. The tremors were felt across Lebanon and Cyprus.

DroneBase Secures $55 Million and Launches Zeitview

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DroneBase Secures $55 Million and Launches Zeitview

DroneBase has secured $55 million in investment and rebranded as Zeitview. Led by Valor Equity Partners, an operational growth investment firm backing technology and technology-enabled companies, the round was followed by existing investors Union Square Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Euclidean Capital, Energy Transition Ventures, and Hearst Ventures.

The new funding will support the company’s AI-enabled software and global footprint in advanced inspection solutions. This announcement caps a year of rapid growth within the renewable sector, including the launch of the North American Solar Scan (NASS), the first standardized set of solar asset ratings to ensure better oversight of U.S. solar power plants. Last year, Zeitview inspected 43 GW of solar capacity.

As Zeitview, the company will continue building advanced inspection software that delivers fast, accurate insights, lowers costs for asset owners and improves performance and longevity.

The name change comes with the company’s increasingly diverse data capture tools: alongside rotary wing drones, Zeitview inspection professionals use crewed aircraft and smartphone technologies to create relevant, flexible solutions for clients. Its accompanying software platform with deep insights and analytics allows clients to easily view data results anywhere.

“We appreciate how important time is to our customers: on the one hand, they need immediate and accurate analysis about the health of their assets; on the other, they are building energy and infrastructure resources to last for decades,” said Dan Burton, founder and chief executive officer at Zeitview.

“We are confident that our AI-enabled software solutions can deliver that immediate answer and a long-term home for our customers, while we are increasingly agnostic about what tool we use to capture the most accurate data. We are grateful that Valor recognizes the power of our comprehensive services to support customers to build, protect, and maintain infrastructure across multiple asset classes and around the world. They understand transformational energy and infrastructure software and embrace businesses that use technology to solve operationally complex problems.”

Valor’s partnership enables Zeitview to continue transforming the aerial inspection industry with emerging technologies and exclusive AI software. Valor’s hands-on operational track record with complex software-led companies bolsters Zeitview’s commitment to increasing data capture capabilities through automation.

“Valor has been a long-term champion of data science and analytics to improve businesses,” said Vivek Pattipati, Partner at Valor Equity Partners. “With Zeitview’s continued expansion of services and commitment to delivering accurate, real-time insights through advanced inspection software, we are naturally mission-aligned. We look forward to supporting Zeitview as they launch this rebrand and enter the next phase of aerial imagery and data solutions.”

Orion180, an Insurance Company Integrates with Nearmap to Advance the Carrier’s Underwriting Technology

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Orion180, an Insurance Company Integrates with Nearmap to Advance the Carrier’s Underwriting Technology

Orion180, a premier insurance solutions provider leveraging advanced technology to serve independent insurance agents and homeowners in the Southeastern United States, announced it has partnered with Nearmap to utilize its aerial imagery to improve their risk selection and streamline the underwriting process.

Orion180 is a fast-growing insurance solutions provider offering a combination of unsurpassed proprietary technology and customer-centric human interactions, simplifying the insurance buying process.

To continue improving on their underwriting process, property data and custom-score modeling, Orion180 needed a partner that could offer high quality imagery, frequently updated data, and AI derived analytics.

Matching Orion180’s high level of customer service, their new partner needed to offer ease of doing business and superior support. After a selection process, they chose Nearmap as their new imagery data intelligence provider. The integration between the two partners will be delivered through a customized API.

“We are truly proud of this new partnership. Innovation is a key pillar of Orion180 that makes up the backbone of our organization. Enhancing our underwriting process with the technology from Nearmap is key to the continued scaling of our products and optimizing the profile of our book,” said Ken Gregg, Founder & CEO. “Nearmap empowers our underwriting and claims teams with extremely accurate aerial technology, enabling us to effectively analyze every risk. We can determine with precision if the attributes of a property truly meet our underwriting guidelines.”

As a leader in the insurance space surveying more than 100 million parcels in the US up to three times per year, Nearmap makes it easy for insurers to unlock location insights needed to make better-informed decisions across the entire policy lifecycle.

Tony Agresta, Executive Vice President and General Manager of North America at Nearmap,said: “Since Nearmap uniquely owns the entire technology stack for aerial imagery-based insights, and Orion180 looks to leverage innovative solutions, the integration between Nearmap and Orion180 is a no-brainer. From our camera technology to image capture, processing, content, delivery, and AI insights, we are confident that our myriad of data and solutions will provide Orion180 the benefits they are looking for in a property intelligence partner.”

AiDash Launches Joint Grid Resilience Offering With Schneider Electric

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AiDash Launches Joint Grid Resilience Offering With Schneider Electric

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AiDash, a leading provider of vegetation management and other satellite- and AI-powered operations, maintenance, and sustainability solutions, today announced the launch of its joint grid resilience offering with Schneider Electric. The new solution will address modern day infrastructure and environmental challenges, such as aging power grids, decarbonization and distributed power generation, vegetation growth inside rights-of-way, and the impact of storms and wildfires.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), nearly 70% of the nation’s grid is more than 25 years old, so grid resiliency is more important than ever. Modernizing the nation’s power grid is necessary to ensure it can endure intensifying natural disasters as climate change worsens and accommodate renewable energy sources. Vegetation management and asset management are also critical areas for utility companies and require the most spending to gather historical data and insights, and predict future outcomes. AiDash and Schneider Electric’s grid resilience offering will support this by leveraging their respective capabilities to improve data accuracy for safety, optimize asset maintenance and capital investments, improve vegetation management and pruning cycles, forecast natural disaster outages, and more. The full list of features includes:

  • Grid Information Management
  • Asset Inspection and Maintenance
  • Capital Project Management
  • Vegetation Inspection and Management
  • Storm and Wildfire Resilience

“With growing natural disasters in today’s world, it’s essential to leverage several types of technology to prevent power outages, predict future outcomes, and build climate resilience,” said Abhishek Singh, co-founder, and CEO of AiDash. “Our partnership with Schneider Electric enables customers to leverage Schneider Electric’s asset management and our vegetation management capabilities to help utilities better understand resilience issues and detect ways to tackle them based on real-time data and insights.”

The grid resilience offering adds to AiDash’s list of products that leverage satellites and AI to help customers make more data-driven decisions. Its Intelligent Vegetation Management System (IVMS) helps utilities balance reliability, sustainability, and cost. The Disaster and Disruption Management System (DDMS) forecasts storms, wildfire outages, and damages to plan quickly and restore safely for utilities as well as energy companies, governments, and cities. The system works in near real-time before, during, and after a major natural disaster or extreme event.

“Utilities face challenges on multiple fronts: outdated infrastructure, increasing energy demands and the integration of clean energy, all while facing more extreme weather events. The most noticeable effect has been a 64% increase in power outages with the majority linked to weather and vegetation. AiDash’s satellite and AI-powered solutions are providing utilities an advantage to overcome these hurdles,” said Alexis Grenon, SVP Digital Grid, Schneider Electric. “We are excited to work with AiDash to provide a joint solution that helps utilities increase reliability of the grid while addressing the challenges of the new energy landscape.”

IITTNiF and AGI sign MoU for Geospatial Advocacy, Innovation, and Research

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IITTNiF and AGI sign MoU for Geospatial Advocacy, Innovation, and Research

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India’s Geospatial industry body – the Association of Geospatial Industries (AGI), and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Tirupati’s technology innovation hub – the Navavishkar I-Hub Foundation – have signed a Memorandums of Understanding for collectively elevating the adoption of Geospatial technologies and applications in the country.

Over the past few decades, Geospatial technologies have become fundamentally important for a number of industries, guiding cutting-edge intelligence, automation, and advanced data systems. By 2030, the Geospatial private sector in India is expected to create 2.2 million employment and infuse Rs. 1 lakh crores into the national economy. A growing interest in Geospatial adoption is being shown by governments across the nation, as evidenced by favorable policies, public-private collaborations, and tech-first development efforts.

To realize this vision, it is important to address the significant innovation challenges within the Indian Geospatial sector, including low number of startups engaged in Geospatial product development, gaps between technology innovation and industry demand, and lack of in-depth understanding of cross-sectoral Geospatial applications. Focus on boosting innovation in the sector will not just help tackle these challenges but also lead to exploring advanced applications, developing new problem statements, and fostering high-end scientific research and development.

Under their MoU for innovation-centric cooperation, AGI and IITTNiF will undertake multiple joint efforts to accomplish these objectives. AGI and its diverse member ecosystem, together with IITTNiF will also strive to jointly identify areas requiring targeted interventions, develop in-depth research reports, and organize such activities as workshops, training programmes, seminars, etc. that serve the common purpose.

On this occasion, Roshan Srivastava, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IIT Tirupati said, “As a technical innovation hub focused on emerging technologies, IITTNiF is dedicated to promoting innovation and nurturing the immense potential the country’s talent has. We recognize Geospatial technologies as a key enabler for driving efficiency, productivity and resilience across sectors, and look forward to the technology’s adoption reaching far and wide. Through this MOU with AGI, we hope to enable and establish gateways that facilitate industry and demand readiness among budding entrepreneurs.”

Mr. Pramod Kaushik, President AGI, also welcomed the collaboration with IITTNiF and remarked, “By making current and reliable spatial data easily accessible for a range of uses, the Geospatial industry significantly boosts the socioeconomic strength of the country. AGI is a major supporter of Geospatial adoption and advocacy, being the only industry body for the Geospatial industry in India. We enjoy significant representation from the biggest, most innovative enterprises, SMEs, and startups in the field. In order to increase technology adoption and foster cutting-edge Geospatial innovation across the nation, we look forward to successful collaborations with the IITTNiF.”

Esri Releases New ArcGIS Reality Software to Capture the World in 3D

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Esri Releases New ArcGIS Reality Software to Capture the World in 3D

Business, government, and science organizations increasingly rely on drones, crewed aircraft, and satellites to capture imagery. Detailed imagery data provides visibility into operations and opportunities, unpacking information from every pixel and transforming static pictures into dynamic digital representations of the world.

3D models and high-resolution maps of construction sites, complex cityscapes, or entire countries allow these organizations to analyze and interact with a digital world that accurately shows places and situations as they are. Layered with geospatial information such as cadastral surveys, utility networks, building information models (BIM), and real-time sensor data, they become digital twins of reality. These enable better understanding of the world through analysis, asset monitoring, or even predictive simulation.

This need to capture reality as the foundation for digital twins is expanding the aerial imaging market, which is expected to grow from $1.4 billion in 2017 to over $4 billion by 2025.

To further support this cross-industry trend, Esri, the global leader in location intelligence technology, is introducing ArcGIS Reality.

“Digital twins have become a critical tool for many industries, and to be effective they rely on highly accurate and up-to-date maps and 3D models derived from imagery,” said Jack Dangermond, Esri founder and president. “We are happy to offer this new family of products to the professionals who are digitizing our world to help us all better understand it—whether their operations are large or small, local or global.”

ArcGIS Reality is a family of products for site, city, and countrywide reality mapping, all using the new ArcGIS Reality Engine:

  • ArcGIS Reality for ArcGIS Pro—a new extension of Esri’s flagship desktop GIS software, allowing users to input images from drones or crewed aircraft to generate 3D outputs for reality mapping.
  • ArcGIS Reality Studio—a new focused application for reality mapping from aerial images for entire cities and countries. A map-centric intuitive interface enables high production efficiency to deliver survey-grade representations of reality.
  • Site Scan for ArcGIS—Esri’s cloud-based end-to-end reality mapping software for drone imagery, designed to simplify drone program management, imagery data collection, processing, and analysis.
  • ArcGIS Drone2Map—an intuitive desktop application focused on reality mapping from drone imagery, enabling offline processing and in-the-field rapid mapping.