User requirements for authoritative geospatial data and support for policymakers were at the heart of discussions at EuroGeographics 2021 General Assembly.

More than 100 leaders and senior representatives from 55 members of the association for Europe’s National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authorities participated in the two-day event, which was held online. Speakers included Marta Nagy-Rothengass, Head of Unit, Eurostat, Oliver Mueller, GISCO Team Leader, and Henrik Steen Andersen from the European Environment Agency.

Colin Bray, President, EuroGeographics said: “As always, connections were at the heart of our agenda: connections between members, connections with key users of their authoritative data, and connections that are being made through new technology.”

“As official sources of trusted information, we want people to use our data, so it was very interesting to see the different ways in which members’ data is benefiting Eurostat and the European Environment Agency, as well as to learn more about the requirements of Frontex and DG AGRI. It is clear that we have a joint vision for cooperation and data sharing, and we look forward to continuing working with them for the benefit of society in general.”

The General Assembly was an opportunity for EuroGeographics members to renew...

CAE addresses global semiconductor shortage by uncovering assets through GIS, an in-house research, inspection and due diligence team

AUSTIN, Texas, June 7, 2021 — (PRNewswire) —  CAE, the industry's first and leading software and data-driven physical commodity trader for semiconductor capital equipment and commodities, unveils an in-house research, inspection and due diligence team, Global Inspection Services (GIS), to provide on-the-ground support throughout the world. Concurrently launched in the United States, Europe, and Asia, GIS is designed to accelerate transaction cycle times, dramatically reduce buyer risk, and improve the process of selling equipment or commodities for CAE's community of suppliers.

CAE provides a confidential, reliable source for buying and selling semiconductor production equipment and commodities. CAE's introduction into the marketplace has created a safe space for device manufacturers to trade equipment without their competitors having any indication into their day-to-day business, entering their facilities, or diverting internal resources from their primary business function. Through CAE, sellers can now rapidly reach a community of tens of thousands of potential buyers, transact in a compliance-guaranteed environment, and with the addition of GIS, not lift a finger to gather and disseminate asset information.

Today, GIS provides CAE's clients with rapid reactions to their needs and real-time information on assets worldwide by diving deep into known assets and suppliers and unearthing new...

Leicestershire, UK, 08 June 2021 - Bluesky International has made a flying start to its nationwide aerial survey update programme in the UK. Having capitalised on the continued low levels of air traffic and good weather in April, Bluesky has already added 52,000 square kilometres of new imagery to its existing national coverage, almost 50 per cent of the circa 120,000 square kilometres of high-resolution imagery updates planned across the UK and Ireland in 2021. With the leaves now out, the company is also deploying their latest 3D mapping camera that simultaneously captures detailed height measurements (LiDAR) as well as vertical and oblique images.

Target flying areas for the 2021 season include large parts of Scotland, including Edinburgh, Glasgow and Shetland, with areas such as Cambridgeshire, Hull and the Isle of Wight already captured. Bluesky is the only company to have full coverage of the Republic of Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales and has upgraded its flying to a minimum 12.5 centimetre resolution nationally for England, Scotland and Wales and urban areas of the Republic of Ireland.

“Taking advantage of some early weather windows we have already been able to capture nearly half of our proposed flying target, all at the higher 12.5 cm pixel resolution which means twice as much detail on the ground.,” commented...

NEEDHAM, Mass. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — June 10, 2021 — According to the International Data Corporation ( IDC^[4]) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker^[5], the worldwide server market grew 12.0% year over year to $20.9 billion during the first quarter of 2021 (1Q21). Worldwide server shipments grew 8.3% year over year to nearly 2.8 million units in 1Q21.

Sales of volume servers were up...

Improved light receiving technology and robust 3D scanning with world's smallest size

TOKYO, June 11, 2021 — (PRNewswire) —Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) today announced an updated solid-state LiDAR that achieves the world's smallest volume, robust vibration and wind resistance while maintaining a maximum detection range of 200m, plus the highest resolution of any sensor of similar size*. The upgraded performance of the new LiDAR will advance progress to autonomous driving, and also expand its application into monitoring transportation infrastructure, in such areas as early detection of road subsidence or landslides, snow cover, or falls of objects onto roads.

WASHINGTON, June 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Cloud Native Geospatial Ecosystem Community announces the release of the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog^[1] (STAC) specification version 1.0.0. The STAC specification is an open metadata standard that systemically describes remotely sensed data of the Earth. The specification supports emerging cloud-based geoprocessing engines by allowing spatial data to be indexed and discovered more efficiently. This feature is fundamental when building artificial intelligence applications using Earth imagery.

The Cloud Native Geospatial Ecosystem Community comprises Earth observation data providers from the private and public sectors, developers working with geospatial data, and consumers of spatial datasets. These organizations and individuals from all industries worldwide came together throughout the last three and a half years to increase the interoperability of searching for and discovering satellite images of the Earth.

STAC provides a uniform index that describes a range of geospatial information, allowing users to discover spatial data across time, space, and cloud storage locations. This global indexing of Earth imagery and derived products works similar to how search engines use specific HTML tags to index web pages. For data providers, it makes it easier to expose and share Earth imagery...

JACKSON, N.J., June 10, 2021 — (PRNewswire) — Tammarro.com, a provider of location intelligence solutions, announced today that it will integrate DataMap Intelligence Geospatial Data as an add-on to its various product offerings to standardize and geocode new input addresses with greater street level accuracy. 

Organizations that require precise geocoding and accurate property identification will now have access to DataMap Intelligence's exclusive detailed information of all new residential development across the United States previously unavailable. A variety of real estate related industries rely on new parcel data to research and analyze property characteristics such as environmental factors, demographics, and tax jurisdictions.

The exact location and the ability to analyze the characteristics of new residential developments are key components to real estate related industries when making critical business decisions. Integrating DataMap geospatial data into daily operations enables organizations to achieve greater insight into the impact of location-based variables.

"Our customers require very high quality data and DataMap Intelligence's geospatial data is another added dataset which we will make available to our customer base," said Jennifer Tammarro, managing director of Tammarro.com. "By integrating DataMap geospatial data, organizations are enabled to precisely locate more properties across the country and gain a greater insight...

CHICAGO, June 10, 2021 — (PRNewswire) — Drone Express^[1], a commercial drone delivery service and a division ofTELEGRID Technologies, Inc.^[2], has partnered with FarEye, an Intelligent Delivery Management Platform, to power autonomous drone deliveries for leading retailers in the United States.

 

Investment enhances the company's position as a provider of time sensitive insights that optimize decisions and improve outcomes for stakeholders throughout the agricultural supply chain.

MINNEAPOLIS, June 9, 2021 — (PRNewswire) —Leading agricultural insights company Sentera announced today that it has raised a $25 million Series C round. The round is led by Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) and S2G Ventures.