Archive for the ‘UAVs’ Category
Friday, March 20th, 2015
In recent years, Emergency Response and Recovery has been tasked with addressing the growing number of natural disasters and manmade disasters worldwide. When a disaster happens, the role of GIS and geospatial is front and center in the identification of location and the location of individuals impacted in the event, as well as the clarification of the physical damage to vital structures. It is also fundamental to the provision of medical care and utilities during a time when those things may be scarce or non-existent.
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Tags: ArcGIS, Autodesk, Bentley Systems, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, Intergraph, iPhone, lbs, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile, navigation, satellite imagery, smartphones, social media, TomTom
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Thursday, February 19th, 2015
Bentley Systems announced that it has acquired the French company Acute3D, provider of Smart3DCapture software for reality modeling.
Acute3D Smart3DCapture has five different editions, two of which are what the company refers to as “prosumer” editions; consumer customers and professionals working on small non-georeferenced projects can use these two editions to simply generate 3D models from photos.
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Tags: Bentley, Bentley Systems, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, satellite imagery, smartphones, social media
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
New proposed rules covering small “unmanned aerial systems” (UAS) issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) this Sunday, could be game changing for those who are looking to use unmanned drones for business purposes.
 A Reaper UAV drone (more…)
Tags: aerial photography, farming, geospatial, GIS, Google Maps, government, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, land survyeing, smartphones, social media, UAS, UAV
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Thursday, January 29th, 2015
Monday’s crash of a two-foot-long drone on the White House grounds set off the country’s alarm bells on the entire safety surrounding drones and what they represent in terms of national security.
 The drone that crashed at the White House (more…)
Tags: drones, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, UAVs
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