According to Raytheon, its HELWS uses energy to detect, identify, track and take down drones. (Photo: Raytheon) Raytheon Company will deploy two prototype high-energy laser weapon systems (HELWS) to troops overseas under a $ 24 million U.S. Air Force contract.…
Image: Orolia All newly-built commercial aircraft must adhere to safety standards that go into effect Jan. 1, 2021. Orolia, which develops new technology for the Global Aeronautical Distress Safety System (GADSS), offers the Kannad Ultima-DT Distress Tracking Emergency Locator Transmitter.…
Terra Drone Europe, a group company of Terra Drone Corporation, has completed an aerial 3D survey and produced a 3D model of an offshore oil rig platform in the North Sea for Shell. According to Terra Drone Europe, the platform…
Government agencies are increasingly turning to high-precision aerial imagery to solve city-planning conundrums. Three recent case studies show how emergency 9-1-1 services gather data to provide updated maps to emergency services to get to the right locations as soon as…
Photo: NASA I was inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing on July 16 and our focus on mapping this month to look into imagery of the Moon. Only recently have we learned that the lunar orbiters that…
Data from Earth Monitor reveals the number of cars and trucks in an area of Amsterdam. (Image: Airbus) The new Earth Monitor tool draws from the Airbus imagery archive and satellite tasking capabilities to provide advanced geospatial analysis, trends and…
A roundup of recent products in the GNSS and inertial positioning industry from the July 2019 issue of GPS World magazine. OEM Inertial sensors Sensor fusion with GNSS receiver Photo: xsens The MTi 600-series of inertial sensors comes in a 31.5 x…
Satellite imagery and mapping have proven to be critical technologies when it comes to disaster relief efforts. The NASA Earth Science Disasters Program has harnessed these technologies to help communities and governments recover from natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes and…
Planet’s Deven Desai explains how Planet uses satellite imagery to uncover data for the oil and gas industry, as well as for road detection, at the 2019 Esri User Conference in San Diego. GPS World
