Archive for the ‘public safety’ Category
Thursday, March 9th, 2017
According to a press release, on February 24th, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA”) (TSX: MDA), a Canadian multinational communications and information company providing technology solutions to commercial and government organizations worldwide, and Colorado-based DigitalGlobe, Inc. (“DigitalGlobe”) (NYSE: DGI), a global leader in Earth imagery and geospatial content, announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement, pursuant to which MDA will acquire DigitalGlobe for US$35.00 per share in a combination of cash and stock.
 Nishinoshima Volcanic Island Growth. Image Courtesy of DigitalGlobe (more…)
Tags: climate change, cloud, data, DigitalGlobe, imagery, intelligence, mapping, maps, MDA, remote sensing, satellite imagery
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2017
Happy New Year!
The recent presidential election in the U.S. has created so much uncertainty that it is hard to know what the future of any industry will be. For the first time, I feel there is no point in making predictions for the New Year for the geospatial industry, unless one is an insider with special knowledge of the winds of change.
 Sevenhugs SmartRemote (more…)
Tags: ArcGIS, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, Google, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, LiDAR, location, maps, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, NOAA, satellite imagery, small sats
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
It’s difficult not to be inspired when attending the Bentley Year In Infrastructure Conference, with so many talented professionals gathered to show off their infrastructure projects.
 Innovation in Rail and Transit Winner: Bandedamark – New Line, Copenhagen-Ringsted, Copenhagen Capital Region, Denmark. Image Courtesy of Bentley Systems (more…)
Tags: #YII2016, AEC, Bentley Systems, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, geospatial, GIS, Google, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, satellite imagery, USGS, Year In Infrastructure 2016, YII 2016
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2016
While the election plods on, behind the scenes there is a lot of geospatial technology being used to come up with various polls, real-time election maps, and determine election polling places that are helping people get to the polls and assist in the results reporting. Candidates, local and state governments are all trying to leverage the latest geographic and mapping solutions to better inform and motivate citizens, thereby changing election outcomes.
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Tags: data, election mapping, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, GPS, Infrastructure, location, mapping, maps, mobile, redistricting, smartphones, social media
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Thursday, October 6th, 2016
Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure acquired GISquadrat GmbH of Vienna, Austria. The acquisition is aimed at enhancing Hexagon’s geospatial, cloud and mobile solutions for governments and utility providers in Europe as well as bringing in more than 300 customers and thousands of users into the Hexagon fold.
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Tags: geospatial, GIS, Google, government, GPS, Hexagon, Infrastructure, intelligence, Intergraph, location, mapping, maps, mobile, navigation, utilities
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2016
About two weeks ago, Esri launched a collection of web maps that display NOAA forecast streamflow data for the continental U.S. NOAA’s recently released National Water Model. Data from the Model combined with the National Hydrography Dataset and fed by NOAA’s National Weather Service data, forecasts the flow of water along the 2.7 million stream segments in the continental U.S. in ArcGIS Online.
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Tags: data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, GPS, location, mapping, maps, NOAA
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Friday, August 26th, 2016
A little hilltop town in Italy was putting the crowning preparations on their annual pasta festival, when the earthquake struck this week.
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Tags: Amatrice, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Italian earthquake, location, mapping, maps, mobile, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, remote sensing, satellite imagery, social media
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016
PenBay Solutions’ chief technology officer, Stuart Rich, spoke with me at Esri UC 2016 in San Diego about the company’s leveraging of GIS to solve facilities management problems.
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Tags: ESRI, geospatial, GIS, GPS, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, mobile, smartphones
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Friday, July 8th, 2016
What was the most exciting attraction in the Exhibit Hall at the Esri User Conference 2016? Hard to say, as the 14,000+ attendees flocked to see the plethora of exciting exhibits from third party companies, and of course the numerous demonstrations of Esri products and services. Drones, imagery, field solutions, utilities, navigation, spatially enabled business apps, data management, all vied for an audience at the conference. Esri’s Drone2Map was a huge hit, and Collector for ArcGIS was a product that garnered an enormous amount of attention at its demonstrations and technical workshops, offering the promise of providing mapping to professionals in the field workforce that would in turn, improve the accuracy and currency of spatial data.
 Esri’s Drone2Map (more…)
Tags: cloud, data, DigitalGlobe, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, Harris Geospatial, location, mapping, maps, mobile, remote sensing, SAP HANA, satellite imagery
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Saturday, July 2nd, 2016
The question: what do we do with all this data? Is one that really runs parallel with the theme of this year’s Esri User Conference held in San Diego, entitled, “GIS Enabling a Smarter World.”
 Jack Dangermond, CEO and President of Esri (more…)
Tags: ESRI, geospatial, GIS, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, mobile, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, navigation, NOAA, remote sensing, satellite imagery, small sats, smartphones, USGS
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