HERE Technologies, the leading location data and platform company, and EROAD, a leading global transportation technology services company, have announced an expanded partnership to collaborate on commercial vehicle routing and navigation solutions for New Zealand, Australia and North America.
HERE and EROAD jointly designed the navigation application that is integrated into EROAD Go+, a new solution …

SAP, a global leader in ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software, has included Pix4D in an SAP Accelerator Program for innovative companies that support the digital transformation of B2B businesses with their software solutions.
 The collaboration between SAP and Pix4D is principally aimed at the telecommunications industry, where the new Pix4D technology for the inspection of transmission …

Ames Construction, one of the largest family-owned general contractors in the United States, has significantly improved the safety and accuracy of its surveying at a copper mining site in Arizona, thanks to innovative technology from senseFly, the global leader in fixed-wing drones. By using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Ames Construction can now generate detailed 3D …

Blue Marble Geographics has announced the release of version 22 of Global Mapper® along with an upgrade to the accompanying Lidar Module®.
Global Mapper is a cutting-edge GIS software application that provides both novice and experienced geospatial professionals with a comprehensive array of spatial data processing tools. It provides access to an unparalleled variety of data …

Saab will, together with the companies ORBCOMM and AAC Clyde Space, lead a groundbreaking Swedish space project; to develop space based communication for the maritime sector via the new automatic tracking standard, VDES. The new VDES package does not only enable safer, more sustainable and greener shipping but the technology also has spin-off potential for …

Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden has launched a National Data Strategy and set out the action the government will take to support the use of data in the UK.
The new strategy will put data at the heart of the country’s recovery from the pandemic so companies and organisations can use it to drive digital transformation, innovate …

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has set up the National Geospatial Data Infrastructure Council to implement a respective law that enters into force on January 1, 2021.
According to Ukrinform, a resolution to that effect was adopted at a government meeting on September 9.
“The National Geospatial Data Infrastructure Council is a very important body that …

iXblue has delivered to Naval Group, in the presence of Florence Parly, French Minister of the Armed Forces, the cybersecure navigation system for the first Defense and Intervention Frigate (FDI) for the French Navy under the project management of the French General Directorate of Armament (DGA). This is the first delivery of the contract signed …

The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched 42 small satellites aboard the Vega launch vehicle. The launch took place on September 2, local time, from a space center in French Guiana. One of the launchable nanocatellites, PICASSO, will take into space the advanced remote sensing technology developed and built by VTT, which will be used to perform …

The European GNSS (EGNSS) is at the core of the drone revolution and future U-space services. EGNOS and Galileo provide significant added value to drone navigation, positioning, and related applications, and the use of their differentiators will be instrumental in developing new business opportunities. Receiver manufacturers, well aware of the benefits that GNSS can bring to the users, are …