July 2020
Esri User Conference
13 – 17 July San Diego, USA
www.esri.com
AEC Next Technology Expo + Conference
July 27-29, Chicago
www.aecnext.com
August 2020
XPONENTIAL 2020
August 9-12 Boston, USA
www.xponential.org
September 2020
Commercial UAV Expo Americas
September 15-17, Las Vegas,
www.expouav.com
7th International Conference on Geomatics and Geospatial Technology (GGT) 2020
21-24 September 2020 Royale Chulan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
http://ggt2020.uitm.edu
ION GNSS+ 2020
21-25, September St. Louis, Missouri, USA
www.ion.org
October 2020
INTERGEO 2020
13 – 15 October Berlin, Germany
www.intergeo.de
International Symposium on Satellite
Navigation (ISSN 2020)
21-24 October, 2020 Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
10th IGRSM International Conference and Exhibition on Geospatial & Remote Sensing (IGRSM 2020)
20-21 October
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
http://igrsm.org/igrsm2020
AARSE2020
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Wingcopter awarded
UAV startup Wingcopter is named as one of nine winners of Germany’s top global hackathon to kick-start humanitarian drone delivery. It partnered with UNICEF and the African Drone and Data Academy to develop a concept to deploy humanitarian drone delivery services. The goal will be to improve health supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. The group will receive up to $3.6 million to make the plan a reality. https://wingcopter.com/
Noa drone by Acecore Technologies
Acecore Technologies has released their third drone platform. The new Acecore Noa has a 20kg payload capacity …
Dr Javad Ashjaee, founder of Javad GNSS dies
Founder of Javad GNSS, Dr. Javad Ashjaee, a GPS/GNSS pioneer and visionary, died on the morning of May 30, 2020, due to COVID-19 in Moscow, Russia.
Over the course of 37 years, Dr. Javad made an incredible and far-reaching impact in the GNSS community. He pioneered the world’s most advanced GNSS technology through a multi- national effort that combined GPS
and GLONASS and established more than a quarter century of partnership between Silicon Valley and Moscow. He was always proud of this “success story of …
iQSTEL’s adds GSM Network and GPS Tracking Support
iQSTEL Inc. has announced that its subsidiary IoT Labs MX has completed the circuit board upgrades for the new generation of the IoT (Internet of Things) Smart Gas field devices.
The original IoT Smart Gas platform was limited to the Sigfox communications infrastructure for IoT devices. Our in-house development team has completed the communications board upgrade for the new generation of IoT Smart Gas field devices, allowing for GSM network communications, expanding the potential usage locations of the IoT Smart Gas platform. In addition, …
Broadening perspective with the new UltraCam Osprey 4.1
Vexcel Imaging released the next generation UltraCam Osprey 4.1, a highly versatile large-format aerial camera for the simultaneous collection of photogrammetric-grade nadir imagery (PAN, RGB and NIR) and oblique images (RGB). Frequent updates of sharp, noise-free and highly accurate digital representations of the world are essential for modern city planning. Enabling unprecedented flight collection efficiency at superior radiometric and geometric quality, the UltraCam Osprey 4.1 sets a new standard in urban mapping and 3D city modeling.
Leading up to the 4th generation of UltraCam aerial …
Earth Intelligence publishes heat hazard data
Earth observation company 4 Earth Intelligence has used satellites to create the UK’s first street level map of ‘at risk’ areas to help plan for and manage the effects of extreme weather conditions. With support from the Ordnance Survey through their Covid-19 Response licensing, the Heat Hazard Postcode data is being made available free at the point of use to national organisations and multi-agency partnerships, such as Local Resilience Forums, that are currently battling the coronavirus pandemic.
Derived from satellite imagery and created using automated algorithms, …
NIST seeks public input on use of PNT services
To bolster the resilience of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and the wide scope of technologies and services that rely on precision timing, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting information from the public about the broad use of positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) services, as well as the cybersecurity risk management approaches used to protect them.
The request, posted in the Federal Register, is part of NIST’s response to the Feb. 12, 2020, Executive Order 13905, Strengthening National …
Scotland joins the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement
The first collective geospatial agreement for Great Britain allowing the public sector from England, Wales and Scotland to access Ordnance Survey (OS) geospatial data and expertise has been achieved.
The Scottish Government and Geospatial Commission have agreed that from 19 May 2020 Scotland will become part of the recently launched Public Sector Geospatial Agreement. This national agreement will now replace the current One Scotland Mapping Agreement (OSMA) and the Greenspace Scotland contracts.
It is envisaged …
says PS Acharya, CEO, National Spatial Data Infrastructure(NSDI), Department of Science & Technology, Government of India shares the status, activities and future plans of NSDI in India in an interview with Coordinates magazine
PS Acharya
CEO, National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), Department of Science & Technology, Government of India
What is the status of NSDI?
Over the years, NSDI has been successful in providing a nation-wide coordinating framework for sharing of standards-based geospatial data services at the Central and State/ Union Territory (UT) Government levels. A group of 12 Central and 18 State/ …
Fiji has land ownership in Fiji are three different tenureship in state land (4%), native land (90%) and freehold (6%). With 90% of native land ownership, there lies traditional and sentimental ties to the land and its protocols.
