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A large, new release of Esri’s desktop GIS software ArcGIS Pro has been released. Version 3.1 includes many new features and tools. Perhaps the biggest new feature is a reality mapping toolbox named ArcGIS Reality for ArcGIS Pro. The extension complements ArcGIS Pro’s ortho mapping capability with high-fidelity 2D and 3D product generation. This new ...

Corey Jaskolski, founder and CEO of Synthetaic, dubbed his satellite image scanning tool Rapid Automatic Image Categorization, or RAIC. After the Chinese weather balloon incident caught the nation’s attention in January, Jaskolski applied RAIC to satellite photos of the Earth’s surface, as collected by geospatial satellite imaging company Planet. He was able to trace the ...

O VCUB1, o primeiro nanossatélite de alto desempenho desenvolvido pela indústria nacional, foi lançado na madrugada deste sábado (15), às 3h48 (horário de Brasília), a partir da base de Vandenberg, no estado da Califórnia, nos Estados Unidos, a bordo do foguete Falcon 9 da SpaceX, que cumpriu a missão Transporter-7. Produzido pela Visiona Tecnologia Espacial, ...

Kenya launched its first operational earth observation satellite on Saturday onboard a SpaceX rocket from the United States. The satellite, developed by nine Kenyan engineers, will collect agricultural and environmental data, including on floods, drought, and wildfires, that authorities plan to use for disaster management and to combat food insecurity. “We have the challenges that ...

Dubai [Abu Dhabi] April 15, (ANI/WAM): Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has successfully launched its second nanosatellite, DEWA SAT-2, aboard SpaceX ‘s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA. The launch of DEWA SAT-2 underlines ‘s leadership in using space technologies to improve the operations, maintenance and planning of electricity ...

SpaceX scrubbed its 24th time this year with the Transporter-7 rideshare mission from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base due to weather constraints. The mission will try again on Friday at 11:47 PM PDT (06:47 UTC on April 15). On this flight, the launch integrators with ports on the payload stack ...

Small ponds emit a surprisingly large amount of methane compared with larger water bodies. Because ponds are so tiny, they have been difficult to track, and their contributions to terrestrial greenhouse gas emissions are largely unaccounted for. In a new study, Mullen et al. used deep learning to construct a fine-grained map of ponds in ...

NO2 emissions are known to be primarily generated by industrial facilities or vehicle exhausts. Recently, a research team from POSTECH analyzed satellite remote sensing data from ESA and released results showing that food processing facilities and high-rise apartments that are 10 stories or higher are significant sources of NO2 emissions. The team estimated average NO2 ...

More than 7% of all mountain forests have been destroyed during the past two decades, according to a new study published in the journal One Earth. Using high-resolution satellite data and maps of mountain terrains, researchers found that 780,000 square kilometers (301,000 square miles) of mountain forest were lost worldwide between 2001 and 2018. The ...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites software developers to the OGC Tiling Interfaces Code Sprint, to be held online and in-person from June 12-14, 2023, at the Moonshot Labs of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in St Louis, Missouri, USA. Participation in the code sprint is free. Registration for in-person participation closes at 5pm EDT ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has selected Oklahoma City along with 17 other communities to participate in the 2023 NOAA Urban Heat Island (UHI) mapping campaign. Pending City Council approval, the campaign will kick off this summer, with volunteer citizen scientists using heat sensors mounted on their cars to map the hottest parts ...

Trimble announced today the launch of its latest enterprise asset management solution designed for electric utilities worldwide to improve their service reliability and operational success. Built on Trimble’s industry-leading Cityworks® enterprise asset management platform, Trimble Unity® AMS enables utilities to manage the complete lifecycle of their asset infrastructure—from permits and construction to operations, maintenance and ...

Hexagon US Federal is involved in shaping a first-of-its kind Digital Defense Summit for U.S. Government and global attendees from federal civilian, defense, intelligence organizations, and industry partners and customers. The four-day event will take place during the HxGN Live Global 2023 digital reality conference, from June 12 – 15, 2023 in Las Vegas, NV.

Spring has arrived in the United States and hummingbirds are headed north. The birds typically migrate north in the late winter and spring, after spending their winters in parts of Central America or Mexico. An online map gives you a close look at the birds’ route north and when to expect their arrival as they ...

Though just 37 miles wide and 48 miles long, Rhode Island boasts 400 miles of shoreline. And University of Rhode Island graduate student Erica Meier knows most all of its 400-plus public access points. Meier spent the summer and fall of 2022 visiting and recording public shoreline access points along the coast with 41°N editor ...

“Object segmentation” is nothing new; AI researchers have worked on it for years. But typically, building these models has been a time-consuming process requiring lots of human annotation of images and considerable computing resources. And typically the resulting models were highly specialized to particular use cases. Now though, researchers at Meta have unveiled the Segment ...

UCLA researchers led by Aydogan Ozcan and Mona Jarrahi have developed a multispectral imaging technology capable of turning a monochrome sensor into a multispectral one. Rather than the traditional absorptive filters used for multispectral imaging, the technology uses a diffractive optical network to form 16 unique spectral bands periodically repeating at the output image field ...

As cities continue expanding, forested areas are becoming scarcer, and less dense. That’s bad news for the wildlife that call those areas home. A University of Cincinnati doctoral student is studying what local areas are important to North America’s largest woodpecker. “The pileated woodpecker is not considered as a vulnerable species, but it is an ...

Seoul Robotics, the company powering smart 3D infrastructure solutions, announced a distribution partnership with Temple, a provider of intelligent transportation systems, to bring its proprietary software, SENSR™, to customers in the Southeast. This is Seoul Robotics’ first partnership with a transportation technology distributor in the U.S. and will expand the company’s deployment of smart infrastructure ...

Using two decades of NASA satellite measurements stored in the cloud, scientists recently assessed the vulnerability of Belize’s renowned coral reefs to bleaching and collapse. The findings could help management authorities protect the reefs from human impacts such as development, overfishing, pollution, and climate change. In a study published in Frontiers in Remote Sensing, the ...

Planet, an Earth observation data and insights company, has announced its acquisition of Sinergise, a Slovenian cloud-based geospatial data platform provider. The acquisition aims to expand Planet’s data analysis platform, aiding the company to provide a more comprehensive set of geospatial data services to its customers. Planet aims to continue expanding into new vertical markets ...

The IT systems at CenterPoint Energy, Texas-based energy company have been given a boost and are now receiving high accuracy GPS timing signals over fiber optic links from ViaLite Communications. The RF over fiber connections enable the essential timing and synchronization signals to be sent over long distances without experiencing the attenuation inherent with coaxial ...

The Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA) has signed an enterprise agreement with Esri to enhance its GIS capabilities. The three-year agreement will provide Esri software, professional services and technical support to MITA and 22 other agencies across the Maltese government. Agencies such as health, communications and infrastructure organisations that do not currently benefit from enterprise ...

Satellogic Inc., a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation (“EO”) data collection, today announced its partnership and integration with SkyFi, a leading provider of EO data. This partnership will allow SkyFi’s customers to task Satellogic satellites directly through the platform either at https://app.skyfi.com or on the SkyFi app. This capability is available to both businesses ...

Last month Seattle City of Literature launched the Seattle Literary Map in print and digitally. The Literary Map is a guide to the people, places, businesses, and organizations that have made important contributions to Seattle’s literary scene. Seattle is one of only two UNESCO Cities of Literature in the United States. The Literary Map honors ...

Google has announced a series of measures to provide up-to-date and actionable information to help people and cities cope with rising temperatures due to climate change. These initiatives include new extreme heat alerts on Google Search, the expansion of the Tree Canopy tool for urban planning, and a $5 million investment in the World Resources ...

UP42, the geospatial developer platform and marketplace, has significantly expanded its aerial imagery and elevation data portfolio through a partnership with Vexcel. The Vexcel Data Program delivers geospatial data products with high accuracy, spatial resolution, and consistency. Vexcel’s aerial data collection initiative is capturing ultra-high-resolution imagery (at 7.5 to 15cm resolution) and related geospatial data ...

The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission—led by NASA and the Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES)—has sent back some of its first glimpses of water on the planet’s surface, showing ocean currents like the Gulf Stream in unprecedented detail. The spatial resolution of SWOT ocean measurements is 10 times greater than the composite ...

The South Florida Water Management District oversees water resources for more than 9 million residents, from Orlando to the Florida Keys. That means monitoring water quality, especially in Lake Okeechobee, the largest freshwater lake in the state and the 10th largest lake in the country. That’s no small task. In partnership with Google Public Sector, ...

A trio of environmental engineers, two with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, the third with the University of Maryland, has developed a way to illustrate the impact of sea level rise isolation associated with global warming. In their paper published in Nature Climate Change, Tom Logan, M. J. Anderson and Allison Reilly describe ...