GTL-1000 introduced to North America at SPAR 3D

LIVERMORE, Calif. – May 17, 2019 – Topcon Positioning Group announces its new real-time reality capture solution for building construction verification will be demonstrated at the SPAR 3D^[1] Expo and Conference — the GTL-1000

The new real-time verification solution includes a compact scanner integrated with a fully featured robotic total station. Combined with ClearEdge3D Verity^[2], the system is designed to offer a powerful instrument and new standard that speeds up construction verification workflows from what traditionally took days to now only hours to complete.

“Topcon is excited to introduce technology to transform the building construction process, increase productivity and minimize mistakes, rework and cost overruns— shown for the first time to the North American market,” said Ray Kerwin, director of global product planning.

The robotic scanning solution includes digital layout capabilities of a single operator controlled total station combined with 3D laser scanner. The integration of the instrument and Verity software creates a complete package ideal for construction verification using 3D modeling techniques, resulting in full-dome scanning to quickly capture duct work, columns, beams, girders, flaps, penetrations and structural steel.

“Operators can quickly conduct a full-dome 360-degree scan, process in MAGNET Collage^[3], and compare the point cloud...

Lokeren, Belgium, May 17^th, 2019

Orbit GT will be exhibiting and hosting a presentation at the GeoBusiness Conference, London, May 21^st-22^nd, 2019. 

“At this year’s GeoBusiness show, we’re pleased to announce a joint booth with our partner LandScope“, says Peter Bonne, CEO of Orbit GT. “Join us in our booth, and our Presentation on Tue 21^st 14:00 pm in Theatre 4, to explore what 3D Mapping can bring to your business and how Orbit GT and LandScope can improve your ROI.”

At GeoBusiness, Orbit GT will showcase the latest and greatest from 3D Mapping Cloud and super new feature extraction tools in its desktop portfolio. 

About Orbit GeoSpatial Technologies

Orbit Geospatial Technologies is world leader in solutions for exploiting 3D Mapping content in managing, viewing, extracting, publishing, sharing and embedding in workflows, either desktop or cloud based. Orbit GT specializes in 3D

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Lokeren, Belgium, May 16th, 2019

Orbit GT has launched version 19.5 for its full 3D Mapping portfolio, including a significant upgrade for the QGIS plugin.

“Regular updates of our portfolio bring new features and updates to our customers in the fastest possible way, “Says Peter Bonne, CEO of Orbit GT. “A special update to our QGIS integration is part of this release, of which I’m sure it will please many users. The 19.5 versions of 3D Mapping Cloud and our Desktop portfolio are now available for use.”>

Version 19.5 includes the Introduction of Floors, Street=level planar imagery, updates for QGIS, ArcPro plugins, and various updates and fixes.

Join us in our booth, our Presentation on Wed 22nd 1:30 pm in the Discover track, or at our 3D Mapping Daytm on Fri 24th just near to the Conference Center”

Having issues with Mobile Mapping ? Want to improve your workflow ? Then join us on our 3D Mapping Daytm on Fri 24th for a full day of free training, a few case stories and reality capture techniques.

Register here for free training now.^[1]
( http://orbitgt.com.pages.services/3d-mapping-day/ )...

EDMONTON, Alberta, May 17, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- ACAMP partnered with Alberta-based Luau Data Corporation to deploy weather sensors for the NASA demonstration in Reno, Nevada. This deployment supports NASA's Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) system, which is mandated to safely and effectively manage drone traffic in an urban area. Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) was selected by NASA as one of two locations to host the demonstration.

According to NIAS, the NASA UTM milestone operation promises to develop a safe and reliable airspace platform to integrate drones into the National Airspace System (NAS).

A press release issued by NASA on February 19, 2019, "publicly announced the State of Nevada as an award recipient for the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) Technical Capability Level (TCL) 4 operation. This involves Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) flying in higher-density urban areas for tasks such as newsgathering, package delivery, and large-scale contingency mitigation. For the first time in U.S. Aviation history in a metropolitan area under beyond visual line of sight conditions, Nevada will conduct this NASA demonstration over several months in downtown Reno, Nevada"...

OAK BROOK, Ill., May 17, 2019 — (PRNewswire) —  CyberTech Systems and Software Ltd., the next-generation spatial analytics and IT solution leader, today announced the opening of its second technology support center for Esri's cutting-edge GIS products and technologies in Pune, India. The new location will focus on expanding CyberTech's world-class capabilities in offering support for ArcGIS product suite to users globally.

Esri is the market leader in GIS technology, location intelligence and mapping, providing award-winning support services to its customers. The Pune center will become a part of CyberTech's long-standing collaboration with Esri and its world-wide distributor and partner based eco-system.

This new center is strategically located near to Pune International Airport and to the City's technology and education hubs and will expand CyberTech's current Thane center collaboration with Esri. This Center has state-of-the-art facilities and currently supports the vast and complex areas of ArcGIS product suite.

Commenting about CyberTech and their Esri technology support capability, Mr. Michael Kim, Director of Esri International Support Services, said, "This new center will definitely help us serve our ever-expanding customer base and expand the current Thane center collaboration with Esri and the Esri International support organization."

Commenting about this new Center, Mr. Vish Tadimety,...

Combined Company Will Drive Next Generation of High Performance Computing

• Accelerates HPE’s strategy to tackle customers’ most data-intensive challenges by combining deep supercomputing talent and cutting-edge technologies
• Establishes the most comprehensive end-to-end portfolio across compute, storage, interconnect, software and services in the fast growing High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence segments
• Creates opportunity for significant economic upside through enhanced growth and profitability

SAN JOSE, Calif. & SEATTLE — (BUSINESS WIRE) — May 17, 2019 — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE^[1]) and Cray Inc. (Nasdaq: CRAY^[2]), a global supercomputer leader, today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which HPE will acquire Cray for $35.00 per share in cash, in a transaction valued at approximately $1.3 billion, net of cash.

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190517005098/en/^[3]

“Answers to some of society’s most pressing challenges are buried in massive amounts of data,” said Antonio Neri, President and CEO, HPE. “Only by processing and analyzing this data will we be able to unlock the answers to critical challenges across medicine, climate change, space and more. Cray is a global technology leader in supercomputing and shares our deep commitment to innovation. By combining our world-class teams and...

thinkWhere Will Implement Enterprise-Wide, Online GIS for Scotland's Rural College

Alan Moore, Chief Executive of thinkWhere, spoke with GISCafe Voice about the recent contract awarded to change how geographic data and software was employed at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC). Working alongside SRUC’s commercial division, SAC Consulting, thinkWhere will implement an enterprise wide, online GIS. thinkWhere will also introduce desktop based open source GIS software and a mobile application for synchronized field mapping and data capture. The integrated, end-to-end solution from thinkWhere is aimed to assist a variety of users and will allow SAC Consulting to offer new services to clients in the future.

Prior to the award of this contract, the SRUC supported three different suppliers of GIS solutions available via a thin client server environment and the desktop. The result was disparate data storage, poor file standards and issues with data reusability and efficiency. They also suffered from lack of flexibility with regards to publishing data and had no solution for mobile data capture or in-field queries.

Is the field to desk GIS delivered by thinkWhere primarily a customized solution?

The field to desk solution is built around thinkWhere’s web mapping solution groundMapper. The solution will also utilise QGIS and QField. These...

The Sensor Model Language (SensorML) enables interoperability so that sensors and processes can be better understood by machines, utilized automatically in complex workflows, and easily shared.

16 May 2019: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate Sensor Model Language (SensorML) v2.1 standard.

SensorML is a machine-readable language for describing sensors, actuators, and processes surrounding measurement. SensorML is a key component of  OGC’s Sensor Web Enablement (SWE)^[1] suite of standards. SWE is concerned with establishing interfaces and encodings that enable a “Sensor Web” through which applications and services are able to access sensors of all types - from the commonplace sensors associated with mobile phones to high-precision remote sensing platforms such as satellites - as well as the observations generated by them, over the Web.

The primary focus of the Sensor Model Language (SensorML) is to provide a robust and semantically-tied means of defining processes and processing components associated with the measurement and post-measurement transformation of observations. This includes sensors and actuators as well as computational processes applied pre- and post-measurement.

The main objective is to enable interoperability so that sensors and processes can be better understood by machines, utilized automatically in complex workflows, and...

MADRID, May 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ – The European Union (EU) and the South Korean government have awarded €8.3 million to the international ResponDrone^[1] consortium, which is composed of 20 partners from 12 countries, to develop and apply a situational awareness system in emergency situations, providing critical information and communication services to first responders.

The three-year project aims to develop an integrated solution for first responders to easily enhance their situation assessment capacity and their own protection. This will, together with other means, include the integration of a fleet of drones that can be operated by a single pilot, during multiple synchronized missions to enhance their situation assessment capacity and protection.

The project received €8 million from the EU through the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme^[2] and an additional €300,000 from the South Korean government.

The ResponDrone system will simplify and accelerate situation assessment, information sharing, decision-making and operations management. Moreover, it will deliver high quality information to any involved control center through an intelligent, accessible web-based system, which can be operated from a remote site. In addition, it will serve as an on-demand airborne communications network to allow people on the...