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Trimble News Release | Trimble
Integration Between Robots, High-Accuracy GNSS, Laser Scanning and Total Station Technologies to Improve Project Safety, Productivity and QualitySUNNYVALE, Calif. and WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 20, 2020—Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and Boston Dynamics announced today a strategic alliance to integrate a variety of construction data collection technologies with Boston Dynamics' Spot® robot platform....
Geographers recognized for national research on COVID-19 | Geospatial World
Geographers have been recognized in 14 research and educational fellowships from The Geospatial Software Institute (GSI) Conceptualization Project. The fellowships support projects that tackle COVID-19’s challenges for public health, social networks and contact tracing, housing stability, and disparities due to age, race, and disabilities, using geospatial software and advanced...
Jack Dangermond, Part 4: Field Maps and Stuff
At the Esri User Conference, xyHt European editor Nicholas Duggan sat down for a one-on-one interview with Jack Dangermond, Esri founder and CEO. In Duggan’s five-part online series, running each day this week, Dangermond discusses everything from Esri’s beginning to the future of GIS. Here in Part 4 the...
How to meet researchers’ constant need of high-quality geospatial data | Geospatial World
By bringing together maps, apps, data, and people, geospatial information allows everyone to make more informed decisions. By linking science with action, geospatial information enables institutes, universities, researchers, governments, industries, NGOs, and companies worldwide to innovate in planning and analysis, operations, field data collection, asset management, public engagement, simulations,...
Trimble News Release | Trimble
Integration Between Robots, High-Accuracy GNSS, Laser Scanning and Total Station Technologies to Improve Project Safety, Productivity and QualitySUNNYVALE, Calif. and WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 20, 2020—Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and Boston Dynamics announced today a strategic alliance to integrate a variety of construction data collection technologies with Boston Dynamics' Spot® robot platform....
SCP E195 Energy Enabled Services in Smart Communities, with Andrew Mears
In this episode of the Smart Community Podcast I had a brilliant conversation with Andrew Mears, the Founder and CEO of SwitchdIn, a software and IoT company that provides a solution for managing distributed energy resources to enable high penetration of renewable energy. Andrew tells us about his background...
Remote Sensing, Satellite Images, Satellite Imagery | Earth Imaging Journal
(MUNICH, Germany) - Hexagon's Geosystems division today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) to provide a homogeneous, comprehensive digital surface model (DSM) for Germany. The data is provided via the HxGN Content Program, a licensed, high-quality...
DATAMARK Selected to Support Alabama 9-1-1 Board’s NG9-1-1 GIS | GISCafé
Firm to Aggregate Public Safety GIS data from 85 Emergency Communication Districts MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct. 19, 2020 — (PRNewswire) —
DATAMARK, the public safety GIS team of
Michael Baker International, has been selected by the Alabama 9-1-1 Board to provide Next-Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) Geographic Information Systems (GIS)...
MGISS Helps Northumbrian Water Mitigate Risk from Trees | Spatially Aware
Liverpool, 19 October 2020 – Northumbrian Water is using satellite positioning and mobile mapping technology to manage safety risks posed by trees on its sites. Using the latest surveying technology from Mobile GIS Services (MGISS), Northumbrian Water has reduced the time taken to plan tree inspections, improved...
How Employees Can Still Have Fun with Socially Distant Work Socials | GISUser.com
A lack of social interaction while working can shatter the spirits of professionals and this is where Cezanne HR’s work socials guide becomes a life-saver for organisations that are looking to reinstate their business functions, without compromising on the mental health and collaborative spirit of personnel.
COVID-19 revolutionised the world’s...
Remote Sensing, Satellite Images, Satellite Imagery | Earth Imaging Journal
(MUNICH, Germany) - Hexagon's Geosystems division today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) to provide a homogeneous, comprehensive digital surface model (DSM) for Germany. The data is provided via the HxGN Content Program, a licensed, high-quality...
Punctuation’s mark: Can we save the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale?
The whale was so big that it took until the middle of the night, and nine hours of manouvering, before the industrial excavator could drag her body from the ocean shallows onto the flat beach of Grand Étang, N.S., a rope tied to her tail.
By dawn, a team of wildlife...
“Space Symposium 365” Schedule Released: New Online, All-Digital Platform Delivers Exclusive Content for the Space Community | Earth Imaging Journal
Provides Year-Round Programming Featuring Space Leaders, Insight, and Connections Initiative offers programs similar to those of the annual Space Symposium October schedule includes presentations from Apollo 13 legend Gene Kranz, NASA, the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, and National Reconnaissance Office Future programs will feature the ISS...
Remote Sensing, Satellite Images, Satellite Imagery | Earth Imaging Journal
Haverhill, MA – A SPECTRAL EVOLUTION field spectroradiometer such as the PSR+, RS-5400, RS-8800, or RS-3500 can be used to measure global, direct and diffuse solar irradiance.
Direct and diffuse solar irradiance are important components of environmental and climate research. Direct solar irradiance is the solar radiation that passes...
Trimble News Release | Trimble
Integration Between Robots, High-Accuracy GNSS, Laser Scanning and Total Station Technologies to Improve Project Safety, Productivity and QualitySUNNYVALE, Calif. and WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 20, 2020—Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and Boston Dynamics announced today a strategic alliance to integrate a variety of construction data collection technologies with Boston Dynamics' Spot® robot platform....
Shell Deepwater selects Bentley’s iTwin platform for project delivery | Geospatial World
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twin cloud services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, recently announced that Shell’s Deepwater business has selected Bentley’s digital twin approach to streamline its capital projects process and accelerate time to first oil.
With a...
Trimble announces new appointments at top management level | Geospatial World
Trimble recently announced that Jaime Nielsen has been appointed as chief people officer; Mark Schwartz has been appointed as chief digital officer; Leah Lambertson has been named head of sustainability; and Albert Momo will serve as chair of the Trimble Foundation, the company’s philanthropic fund.
Jaime Nielsen – Chief People Officer
As chief people officer, Jaime Nielsen will lead the people experience organization, formerly human resources,and support the...
Trimble News Release | Trimble
Integration Between Robots, High-Accuracy GNSS, Laser Scanning and Total Station Technologies to Improve Project Safety, Productivity and QualitySUNNYVALE, Calif. and WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 20, 2020—Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and Boston Dynamics announced today a strategic alliance to integrate a variety of construction data collection technologies with Boston Dynamics' Spot® robot platform....
Remote Sensing, Satellite Images, Satellite Imagery | Earth Imaging Journal
(MUNICH, Germany) - Hexagon's Geosystems division today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) to provide a homogeneous, comprehensive digital surface model (DSM) for Germany. The data is provided via the HxGN Content Program, a licensed, high-quality...
