FARO Zone 3D releases for public safety professionals
US: FARO announces the availability of FARO Zone 3D software. This revolutionary platform, through its advanced smart tools, is the first of its kind to enable investigators to move fluidly between 2D and 3D environments and enhance the quality of incident reconstruction analysis or presentations for public safety professionals…(Read more)
Margaret Sullivan joins Radiant.Earth’s Board of Directors
US: Radiant.Earth announced that Margaret Sullivan, CEO of Sullivan Strategy, has been elected to its Board of Directors. She was formerly the chief operating officer and chief of staff at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). “Ms. Sullivan is an important addition to the Board…(Read more)
Researchers watch the cities grow with 4D point clouds
Germany: Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have made a world record by making four-dimensional point clouds of Berlin, Las Vegas, Paris and Washington, D.C. from images stacks of the TerraSAR-X radar satellite…(Read more)
MDA’s Robert Phillips to receive Institute of Corporate Directors Fellowship Award
Vancouver: MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has announced that Robert L. Phillips, chairman of the MDA board of directors, received the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) Fellowship Award at its annual gala on June 22 in Toronto. Howard L. Lance, president and chief executive officer of MDA said…(Read more)
4DMapper can support 3DMesh models
US: Now, with no software 4DMapper can support 3DMesh models in a geospatial environment. The tech boom in 3D geospatial, from satellites to UAVs, has seen 3D mesh models as a common deliverable…(Read more)
Blogs
SoI maps more easily available; agency takes to modern technologies
Survey of India is fast moving towards digitization and use of modern technologies like drone surveying. In the past one year it has produced 2,000 maps of the country for various uses and has made more active efforts to make them easily accessible to users through its Nakshe portal…(Read more)
OGC India Plugfest focuses on open data standardization and its use in smart solutions
We get enormous location data from various sources like mobile devices, stationary sensors, airborne imaging systems and modeling applications. The explosion in location data offers great potential. Integration of human, physical and digital systems operating in the built environment can improve governance, business, and quality of life…(Read more)
