New Capabilities Provide Support for Unstructured Data in the ArcGIS Platform Spatial analytics company Esri has acquired technology from ClearTerra, a company that offers geospatial and activity-based intelligence tools. The acquisition will provide ArcGIS platform users the ability to easily discover and extract…
u‑blox has rolled out the u-blox F9 technology platform, which was designed to deliver high-precision positioning solutions for mass market industrial and automotive applications. The platform combines multi-band GNSS technology with dead-reckoning, high-precision algorithms, and compatibility with a variety of…
Lidar and UAV technology has revealed hundreds of previously unknown Mayan ruins in the Guatemalan rainforest. The Optech Titan stripped away overlying vegetation to reveal extensive Mayan ruins in Guatemala’s rainforest. (Image:Teledyne Optech) In what is considered biggest aerial lidar survey…
Neutron-star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, is an external attached payload on the International Space Station. (Image: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) A team of engineers at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has demonstrated fully autonomous X-ray…
TerraGo is now offering GXP InForm, a new add-on module for BAE Systems’ GXP Xplorer platform. The application, built using the TerraGo Magic platform and available today from BAE Systems, offers iOS, Android and web apps that make it easy…
The military is always looking at new techniques and technology for deriving position and, it seems, every few years signals of opportunity (SOOP) becomes fashionable again. In broad terms, SOOP refers to the use of any signals for navigation, which…
FleetUp Trace is a ruggedized tablet designed for fleet drivers required to display Records of Duty Status (RODS) upon request instead of printing out hard copies with the new Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate. Tim provides thoughts on the product hardware,…
The winner’s of ION’s 8th annual Autonomous Snowplow Competition was team “Snow Squirrel” from the University of Minnesota. Photo courtesy of ION. The Institute of Navigation’s (ION) Satellite Division held its 8th annual Autonomous Snowplow Competition Jan. 25-28 at Rice…
Fractus Antennas has launched a mobile antenna that enables coverage at 3G, 4G and 5G — the TRIO mXTEND chip antenna component. The TRIO mXTEND has been specifically designed to provide flexibility to operate any required frequency band inside any…
