Rome, NY, June 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Traditionally, boundary surveys are not conducted using drone technology. However, the team at Carlson, Brigance & Doering, Inc. (CBD), a civil engineering and surveying firm in the Austin Texas area is using drone LiDAR to create updated, accurate Boundary Surveys in the all-new webinar premiere of Down to Earth, Beyond Boundaries. CLICK HERE^[1] to watch NOW.

“Down to Earth” is a reality series that shows how real surveyors collect data and turn it into real deliverables, despite challenging terrain, rough weather, and hidden dangers.  

On these new episodes, the team at CBD needed to survey a challenging, 550 acre, tract of land in Southern Texas, where the property boundary follows the Colorado River, which has changed significantly since the original survey from the late 1800s.

A traditional survey on this project could take a field crew a few weeks to complete. That is why CBD decides to use drone LiDAR to create an updated, accurate boundary survey in only a few days.

“Collecting the lidar data will allow us to generate these high banks and low banks and any of the other terrain...

The Estes Memorial Teaching Award was inaugurated in 2003 in honor of Professor John E. "Jack" Estes, teacher, mentor, scientist, and friend of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Funding for the Award, initially provided by a corporate sponsor, lapsed in 2016. In 2020-21, the ASPRS Foundation trustees, in recognition of the important niche this Award occupies in ASPRS, reallocated a portion of the Foundation’s general-purpose funds to fully endow the Award at a minimum $2,000 level.

This Award, which includes a presentation plaque and a check, is intended to be presented annually. The purpose of the Award to recognize individual achievement in the promotion of remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) technology and applications through educational efforts. Award recipients are chosen based on documented excellence in education, teaching, mentoring, and training.

Nominations for the Award are solicited from active members of ASPRS, including representatives from ASPRS's Regions, by the Estes Award Selection Committee and are evaluated based on the following criteria:

• Professional duties with a significant role in education, teaching, mentoring, and training in the areas of remote sensing and GIS
• Documented excellence in education, teaching, mentoring, and training
• A demonstrated commitment to the advancement of student learning in remote sensing and GIS

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Implementers of SensorML v2.0 are invited to validate their products using the new test suite.

 

 

4 June 2021: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the Executable Test Suite (ETS) for version 2.0 of the Sensor Model Language (SensorML): Model and XML Encoding Standard^[1] has been approved by the OGC Membership. Products that implement the SensorML 2.0 Standard and pass the tests in the ETS can now be certified as OGC Compliant.

Implementers are invited to validate their products using the new test suite, which is available on the OGC validator tool^[2]. Testing involves submitting a SensorML 2.0 file produced by the product being assessed. These tests typically take only 5-10 minutes to complete. Once a product has passed the test, the implementer can submit an application to OGC for use of the OGC Compliant trademark on their product.

The primary focus of 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...

 

 

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, 2 June 2021 – Geoscience software company Seequent^[1] has promoted Graham Grant to Chief Executive Officer, following six years as the company’s Chief Operating Officer. In a planned transition, Grant succeeds Shaun Maloney, who has retired after a decade in the role.

“On behalf of the Seequent board, I’d like to warmly welcome Graham as Chief Executive Officer,” says Maloney, who continues to serve as Seequent’s Executive Chairman. “Leading Seequent and its fantastic team into the company it is today has been a great honour – and Graham has played an integral role in this journey for the past nine years. Seequent’s future is in skilful hands with Graham; his leadership skills, proven performance, vision and drive for success will ensure Seequent’s continued advancement.”

Graham Grant says, “It’s an honour to take the helm at Seequent. What Shaun and the Seequent team have achieved - building this company from what was a small Christchurch-based start-up 17 years ago, to a truly global company providing innovative solutions to geoscience challenges in over 100 countries around the world – is remarkable. We are fortunate to have a global workforce of experts in their field, and the passion they bring to their roles, the resilience they have...

IRVINE, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — June 4, 2021 — CoreLogic®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today announced the completion of its acquisition by funds managed by Stone Point Capital and Insight Partners for $80 per share in cash. CoreLogic’s common stock has ceased trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

CoreLogic will continue to be headquartered in Irvine, California, and the Company’s management team led by President and CEO Frank Martell will remain in place and continue to operate CoreLogic as a private company.

Frank Martell said, “Today marks a major milestone in CoreLogic’s history as we move to capture the many opportunities in front of us to accelerate our growth and transformation as a privately held firm. The entire team is excited and looking forward to working closely with Stone Point and Insight Partners to build on our record financial and operating performance and deliver solutions that help millions of people find, buy, and protect their homes each year.”

Chuck Davis, CEO of Stone Point Capital, said, “Stone Point is thrilled to work with the CoreLogic leadership team to support the Company’s next phase of growth. CoreLogic is a mission-critical vendor and data provider across industry sectors in which Stone Point has specialized over the past 20...

HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, June 4, 2021 — (PRNewswire) —Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:RCAT^[1]) ("Red Cat" or the "Company"), a hardware enabled software provider to the drone industry, announced that Dr. Allan Evans, Chief Executive Officer of Fat Shark Holdings, Ltd. ("Fat Shark"), a wholly owned subsidiary, will transition to the role of Chief Operating Officer of Red Cat, where he will oversee operations for all four subsidiaries.