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2020 – The Year of Natural Hazards

Thursday, April 1st, 2021

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.

Figure 1. Redefining Risk: CoreLogic Combined Peril Score (Graphic: Business Wire)

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GISCafe Voice Industry Predictions for 2021 – Part 5

Friday, March 5th, 2021

Better cloud and remote GIS tools, virtual and augmented reality have now blossomed in response to the demands put forth on our industry by the pandemic. Gaining access to analysis-ready geospatial data at a scale and with granularity never before possible is on the horizon. We thought we already knew about digital twins, but now we find out they are finally born? This is the way of the future and much more, we learn by checking in with companies Blue Marble and Omnisci, two companies with a finger on the pulse of what to watch for in geospatial.

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GISCafe Voice Industry Predictions for 2021 – Part 4

Friday, February 19th, 2021

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.

 

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GISCafe Voice Industry Predictions for 2021 – Part 1

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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GISCafe Geospatial Technology Industry Wrap-Up 2020

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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The Role of AI/ML in Intelligence and National Security

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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USGIF GEOINT Community Forum Aims to Deliver Information “At the Speed of Need”

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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Interviews from INTERGEO.Digital

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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ENVI Virtual Analytics Symposium: “Geospatial Vision for the Next Decade”

Thursday, September 10th, 2020

Tammy Owen, Global Director of the Defense and Intelligence business area for L3Harris Geospatial, introduced speakers on the first day of the 6th annual ENVI Analytics Symposium held August 25-27th, which for the first time, was held virtually rather than in person in Boulder, Colorado as had been initially planned.

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Hovermap Offers Autonomy Plus Lidar Mapping

Saturday, August 29th, 2020

In a webinar recently presented by Emesent, the discussion was entitled “Smarter Lidar Technology for Infrastructure and AEC: better data, greater insights.”

Peter Dickinson, project manager for Emesent and Business Development manager for the Americas Dave Jaunay introduced customers who were using Emesent’s Hovermap sensor system for various challenging environments. It has been used extensively in mining and underground environments and land surveying.

The company Emesent is based in Brisbane, Australia with a staff of 38 but rapidly growing to meet global demands. The company aims to solve the problem of collection of data – in GPS-denied or challenging environments. The need to automate the collection of data,  gave birth to the Hovermap for mine and roads,  tunneling, indoor mapping and search and rescue, anywhere where maintaining a signal for GNSS solutions is problematic.

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