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Thursday, July 16th, 2015
Bob Freinberg, CEO of Airbus DS Communications, an entity of Airbus Defense and Space, talked with GISCafe Voice about the new VESTA Text-to-9-1-1 and upgrades for that company.
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2015
Partnerships, unmanned spacecraft, technologies and sensors were some of the topics covered in a panel discussion and press luncheon held at GEOINT Symposium 2015 in Washington D.C. recently, by Northrup Grumman.
An E-2C test aircraft assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 20 conducts an aerial refueling dry-plug engagement with an F/A-18.
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Tags: Citysourced, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, geospatial, GIS, Google, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, LiDAR, location, mapping, mobile, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, NOAA, Northrup Grumman, remote sensing, satellite imagery, USGS No Comments »
Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
The exhibits at GEOINT Symposium 2015 this past week in Washington D.C. reflected the direction the government is heading with regard to new products, technologies and services.
The new government initiative of doing more with less has generated interest among a group of vendors in partnership with the Centralized Super Computer Facility (CSCF) program. Lockheed Martin, one of the vendors, has developed a Multilevel Secure ecosystem (MLS) using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5+ for both single system image and for a cluster configuration. The focus of this system is to use MLS to enable data fusion and/or consolidate hardware systems rather than promote duplication.
The companies partnering in this endeavor include Lockheed Martin (Multilevel Secure Ecosystem), Seagate (Multilevel Secure HPC Storage), Red Hat (Open source operating system), SGI (Secure high performance computing solutions), CRAY (multilevel security (MLS) capability), Bay Microsystems (global high-performance fabric extension), Mellanox ( 100 Gigabit per second scalable networking), 35ViON Years (MLS-Ecosystem for Mission Data), Altair (PBS Professional, – job scheduling and management) and new at the conference this year, Crunchy (open source Crunchy MLS PostgreSQL extends PostgreSQL with Multilevel Security support), and Splunk (universal machine data platform).
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Tags: cloud, crowdsourcing, geointelligence, geospatial, GIS, Google Maps, imagery, iPhone, location, mobile, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, navigation, NOAA, remote sensing, satellite imagery, USGS No Comments »
Friday, June 26th, 2015
The message of this week’s GEOINT Symposium 2015 – with the theme, “Opening the Aperture, Charting New Paths,” was really about how to utilize the commercial sector for technologies and the move toward offering services to customers. The topics, “less is more,” “moving toward services” and “innovation” all spoke to the need for change in a federal government limited in recent years by budget cuts . This has not diminished the need for geointelligence excellence, however, in fact, in today’s complicated world, the need is even greater.
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Tags: cloud, crowdsourcing, data, DigitalGlobe, ESRI, General Stan McChrystal, GEOINT 2015, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, location, mapping, NGA, Robert Cardillo, Robert O. Work, satellite imagery, smartphones, social media, Theresa Whalen, USGS 1 Comment »
Wednesday, June 24th, 2015
Recently, GISCafe Voice spoke with R.J. Talyor, vice president of Product Management at Geofeedia. Geofeedia is a patented, cloud-based platform, which searches, analyzes and monitors real time social media posts from any geographic location globally.
Recording analytics and sentiiment
In a couple of recent GeoFeedia case studies, the platform has been used to uncover drug use and distribution among teens at parties in the Los Angeles area, involving the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the FDA. In one other instance, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Men’s Division Basketball Tournament was already very active in social media, but needed a better way to cut through the noise on social media and discover and engage with social media users posting at specific locations of interest across Indianapolis. They were able to get up and running quickly on the GeoFeedia platform and draw perimeters around key locations, from which they gathered rich geo-tagged social media data in a matter of minutes. Consequently, the team was able to use GeoFeedia to make sure the fans had a good fan experience, and that counterfeit passes were aborted, as well as that tournament title sponsors receive high returns on their investment.
Tags: cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, imagery, intelligence, lbs, location, mapping, mobile, smartphones 1 Comment »
Thursday, June 18th, 2015
Rand Worldwide announced that its IMAGINiT Technologies division is partnering with Pix4D, leading developers of 2D and 3D mapping and modeling software. This collaboration will help architectural, civil and manufacturing design engineers extract imagery taken from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and convert it into usable 2D and 3D models.
Pix4D Mapping
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Monday, June 15th, 2015
Next week GISCafe will be flying to GEOINT 2015 Symposium held June 22-25 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
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Tags: ArcGIS, Autodesk, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, Intergraph, iPhone, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, Microsoft, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, NOAA, remote sensing, Safe Software, satellite imagery, social media, USGS No Comments »
Tuesday, June 9th, 2015
Ubisense Group plc, a leader in enterprise location intelligence solutions, announced the launch of its new inspection and survey solution at the American Gas Association (AGA) Operations Conference & Biennial Exhibition in Grapevine, Texas in May. At the conference, Ubisense’s vice president of networks industry strategy, Jay Cadman, presented and Ubisense demonstrated the capabilities of its new solutions.
Jay Cadman, vice president of networks industry strategy, Ubisense
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Tags: cloud, geospatial, GIS, GPS, Infrastructure, lbs, mapping, maps, mobile, Ubisense No Comments »
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015
The result of a collaboration between Esri and Intergraph Security Government and Infrastructure (SG&I) announced in March is the release of I/Map Editor for ArcGIS, a new product that works directly with Esri’s ArcGIS Platform to migrate geospatial data into Intergraph’s Computer-Aided Dispatch Software (I/CAD), allowing tighter integration between those two products. The new product was unveiled at this week’s HXGN LIVE 2015 in Las Vegas. Vice president of Public Safety Products, Intergraph SG&I Kalyn Sims, talks to GISCafe Voice about the announcement.
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Tags: cloud, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, GPS, intelligence, Intergraph, mapping, maps, mobile No Comments »
Thursday, May 28th, 2015
Last week media trekked to Autodesk’s new Innovation and Design Building in the heart of Boston for the Autodesk AEC Media Summit. While the previous LEED Gold headquarters in Waltham, Mass. was a testament to the company’s commitment to sustainable design, the Innovation and Design Building speaks to their branching out in their innovative capacities.
AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 & InfraWorks 2016
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Tags: AEC, Autodesk, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, geospatial, GIS, Google, GPS, imagery, intelligence, iPhone, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, social media 1 Comment »
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