Sanjay Gangal, CEO and president of GISCafe, interviewed Ross Smith, program manager at TCarta recently, to talk about the importance of TCarta and its satellite-derived bathymetry, or SDB to climate change, sea level rise and GEOINT.
In a recent Media News Briefing and Q&A session with Airbus Defence and Space, SVP Head of Earth Observation, Navigation and Science, Philippe Pham & Director of Intelligence Business François Lombard discussed the announcement of Pleiades Neo. The company is reshaping earth observation services and geospatial services by introducing Pleiades Neo, their first satellite.
Evergreen in the Suez Canal, image courtesy of Airbus Defence & Space
Amritha Narayanan, Pix4Dcatch Product Manager, provided information on the new ViDoc RTK rover from Pix4D, an industry leader in photogrammetry. The company is announcing the commercialization and worldwide exclusive distribution of the viDoc RTK rover, enabling ground-based RTK-grade 3D scanning with iOS mobile phones and tablets through the Pix4Dcatch app.
Conceived by vigram GmbH., a German company led by professional surveyors, the viDoc RTK rover is designed for accuracy and works with Pix4Dcatch for image acquisition. The hand-held RTK rover is a replacement for more expensive ground surveying equipment but is no less accurate in its mission to to achieve 3D, actionable results. Users can couple the viDoc RTK rover to Pix4Dcatch via Bluetooth and connect to any NTRIP service of their choice. They can walk around their area of interest to acquire high-precision positional data for individual images.
This solution brings together the power of RTK accuracy with the combination of LiDAR and photogrammetry. It can be used with the following support devices: iPad Pro 11 2020, iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max equipped with LiDAR sensors.
Irvine, California company CoreLogic®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, released at the end of January its annual Catastrophe Report highlighting the value of modern insurance and mortgage solutions in addressing the increase in climate change-induced hazard events and impact on the real estate economy.
Thematically, this week’s group of industry predictions can be boiled down to one topic: delivering the data that people need, in a format that they can understand to enable them to make the best possible evidence-based decisions quickly and confidently.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.