NASA Develops Lidar Backpack Technology for Moon Explorers
ASA researchers and their industry partners have developed a remote sensing mapping system to aid explorers in the most isolated wilderness imaginable: the airless wastes at the South Pole of…
Topcon Opens New European Distribution Centre
opcon Positioning Group has opened a new advanced European distribution centre in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. The new site has been built as part of the Dutch Tech Campus. The new…
SPH Engineering Presents Third Generation of UgCS SkyHub Hardware
SPH Engineering has announced the third generation of the UgCS SkyHub hardware and released the largest update of the UgCS SkyHub software ever. The development accumulates five years of knowledge…
Indoor Mapping and Wayfinding Just Got Better
ArcGIS Indoors and ArcGIS IPS are Esri’s flagship indoor mapping and positioning products that enable organizations to gain geospatial context of their interior spaces. Indoor GIS can help manage indoor…
Mobile GIS Apps Help Citizen Scientists Guide Oil Spill Cleanu
As waves receded from shore on a stretch of Southern California beach on October 2, 2021, they left black outlines at their extents. Soon, sticky tar balls, too toxic to…
Real-Time Snowplow Monitoring Proves Successful, Opening Doors for Additional Implementations
Syracuse, New York, typically receives about 124 inches of snow per year, according to the National Weather Service. This means that from late fall to early spring, frequent snowstorms make…
Dutch Mapping Company Creates Digital Twin of Historical Gateway
4 Indoor has used a wearable NavVis VLX mobile mapping system to create a high-quality 1.2GB point cloud of the medieval gateway called Koppelpoort in the Dutch city of Amersfoort….
Woolpert Contracted by USGS to Conduct Geophysical Surveys in Arkansas
he U.S. Geological Survey has contracted with Woolpert to conduct a high-precision geophysical survey and subsurface geologic mapping in Arkansas. The firm will collect, process and deliver high-resolution airborne radiometric…
ABB Secures USD30 Million Satellite Imaging Technology Order
ABB has been awarded a contract to develop and manufacture next-generation multispectral imaging systems to be placed on ten satellites that will circle the Earth. The order, worth around US$30…
Three Articles about Digital Twins that Really Add Value
is the concept of the digital twin merely a hype, or do digital twins actually offer lots of opportunities? As these three articles show, they really can add value –…
