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Thursday, February 4th, 2021
Geospatial has responded to the past year’s calamitous changes with what it already had in place as well as shifted gears at the spur of the moment. GNSS advancements, bring-your-own-data, geospatial data acquisition, location analytics, supply chain logistics, Covid and dashboards, tracking trends, turning data into actionable information – all took front and center stage as far as technologies that surge forward into 2021 and beyond.
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Friday, January 22nd, 2021
This week, our Geospatial Industry Predictions includes Linda Loubert, Interim Chairperson and Graduate Coordinator, Economics Department, Morgan State University; Seb Lessware, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of 1Spatial; and George Mastakas, Vice President of Enterprise Solutions & Corporate Partnerships at Cityworks. These industry spokespeople cover where they see the industry going – and how to apply geographic knowledge to economics, politics, data sharing, visualization, city and country planning using sensors, Digital Twins, machine learning and artificial intelligence and much more. With GIS and geospatial, the matter of being able to provide accuracy and validity in data is paramount. The technology is already there; yet finding the ways to use the technology in even more promising ways is the way of the future.
Nearmap Aerial Image of the Presidential Inauguration January 20, 2021
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Tags: air pollution, autonomous vehicles, Cityworks, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, geospatial, GIS, GNSS, Google, Google Maps, health, imagery, indoor mapping, Infrastructure, intelligence, laser scanner, LiDAR, location, mapping, mobile mapping, reality modeling, remote sensing, satellite imagery, social media No Comments »
Friday, January 8th, 2021
Looking forward to 2021 brings with it a necessary looking backward at what geospatial organizations and providers have had to deal with in 2020. On a regular basis throughout the next two months, GISCafe Voice will post industry predictions from professional geospatial organizations, looking at what vectors are influencing the industry and what directions the technologies will take. This week we will hear from spokespeople from Maptek, Nearmap, Septentrio and Sinclair Industries. Autonomous solutions, partnering with other technology providers, mapping critical care centers such as testing centers, cybersecurity and increased accuracy and analytics are all areas that geospatial and mapping have stepped up to as a result of Covid-19. The technology was there, ready to meet the sudden and unanticipated demand. What does that mean going forward? Greater resilience and growth, innovation at a more rapid pace, and much more, according to these industry professionals.
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Tags: climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, geospatial, GIS, GNSS, health, imagery, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, mobile, mobile mapping, real estate, reality modeling, remote sensing, satellite imagery, smartphones No Comments »
Friday, December 18th, 2020
While many industry markets saw a decline during 2020, geospatial and GIS remained steady and are projected to grow. According to Research and Markets’ report, “Geospatial Analytics Market – Global Forecast to 2025” the Geospatial Analytics Market Size is Projected to Grow from USD 52.6 Billion in 2020 to USD 96.3 Billion by 2025, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 12.9% During the Forecast Period.
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Tags: cloud, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, imagery, Infrastructure, laser scanner, location, mapping, maps, mobile, satellite imagery, social media No Comments »
Friday, December 4th, 2020
An interview with the Hon. Susan Gordon, Former Principal Deputy Director of National Security, by Balan Ayyar, CEO, percipient.ai was conducted at the USGIF GEOINT Community Forum Online in the past weeks. Ayyar is the Founder and CEO of percipient.ai, a Silicon Valley-based AI, machine learning and computer vision firm focused on intelligence and national security missions and the company is the title sponsor of the USGIF. Ayyar is also a retired U.S. Air Force General Officer. His last role was as the commanding general of the combined joint interagency task force 435 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Tags: geospatial, GIS, Google, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, mobile mapping, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, navigation, reality modeling, satellite imagery, situational intelligence, social media, USGS No Comments »
Friday, November 20th, 2020
On Monday November 16th, 2020 the opening Keynote Address of the USGIF GEOINT Community Forum was presented by Stacey Dixon, Ph. D., Deputy Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The theme of the conference “The Convergence of Commercial Content with AI/ML to Provide Clarity” shaped the narrative for the week ahead. Dixon said that Covid-19 provided an unexpected opportunity to reimagine their mission very quickly.
Stacey Dixon, Ph. D., Deputy Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
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Tags: cloud, data, forestry, geospatial, GIS, GPS, imagery, indoor mapping, Infrastructure, intelligence, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile, mobile mapping, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, remote sensing, satellite imagery, social media, underground mapping No Comments »
Friday, November 6th, 2020
This year’s Bentley Year In Infrastructure event was as most conferences this year, held remotely. Press from over 28 countries attended.
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Tags: Bentley Systems, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, geospatial, GIS, location, mapping, maps, mobile, satellite imagery No Comments »
Friday, October 23rd, 2020
INTERGEO Digital experienced an exciting first day on October 15th with 232 exhibitors who uploaded 2,700 products and data files to the platform. Participants from 150 countries signed in online.
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Friday, October 9th, 2020
Pix4D of Lausanne, Switzerland recently announced Pix4Dmatic, a digital standalone desktop photogrammetry software for accurate and fast corridor and large scale mapping. Demand by professionals for this type of large scale mapping has been high. Previously mapped by aircraft, the types of projects are now mapped and surveyed with drones. Pix4Dmatic can make these projects much easier.
Pix4D is a Swiss company that develops a suite of software products that use photogrammetry and computer vision algorithms to transform RGB, thermal and multispectral images into 3D maps and models.
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Tags: cloud, data, geospatial, GIS, imagery, Infrastructure, laser scanner, LiDAR, mapping, mobile, mobile mapping, Pix4D, satellite imagery No Comments »
Thursday, September 24th, 2020
This week Enview, a company in the vanguard of the field of scalable processing of 3D geospatial data, announced the launch of Enview Explore™, a web application that leverages AI and cloud computing to automatically process 3D data at great speed and scale. Additionally, Robert Cardillo, former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), has joined the company’s Board of Directors. Following an oversubscribed round of funding in May, the company continues to experience growth and momentum in the market.
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Tags: 3D Laser Mapping, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, GeoCue, geospatial, GIS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, laser scanner, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, reality modeling, remote sensing, satellite imagery, situational intelligence No Comments »
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