On March 25 – 27, 2019 the renowned conference “Munich Satellite Navigation Summit” welcomed about 450 participants at the Old Congress Hall in Munich, Germany. Within the last 16 years the Summit became an important event for getting updates on the latest news in GNSS as well as for high-level networking. As every year, the …

Navigation often relies on high accuracy and high-update rate global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) such as GPS, Galileo, Glonass, Beidu, Navstar…

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is emerging to become a common tool in the geoscience field as it is usable across different field to cover a large-scale area with minimal cost…

Soil Moisture is a key component of water cycle budget [6]. It is fundamental measurement in the fields of hydrology, flooding, agriculture etc…

May 2019

5th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management

3-5 May 2019 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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Innoviz Technologies to accelerate solid-state LiDAR production
Innoviz Technologies has raised $132 million in Series C funding. This significant raise will support Innoviz’s commercialization of its leading InnovizPro and InnovizOne solid-state LiDAR solutions and address growing demand for cutting-edge autonomous vehicles (AV) technologies worldwide. www.innoviz.tech
Velodyne achieves half a billion dollars in Lidar sensors shipped …

senseFly eBee X with MicaSense RedEdge-MX,
SenseFly and MicaSense, producer of drone sensors for agriculture, have announced a new dual solution – the senseFly eBee X with MicaSense RedEdge-MX.
The RedEdge-MX is a rugged, built-tolast professional multispectral sensor. Capturing red, green, blue, near-infrared, and red-edge spectral bands, data from this sensor can be used to …

UK makes major breakthrough in atomic clocks
Researchers from the Emergent Photonics Lab (EPic Lab) at the University of Sussex have made a breakthrough in developing atomic clocks, which could mean accessing a satellite signal would be unnecessary. Dr Alessia Pasquazi from the EPic Lab explained the breakthrough:
“With a portable atomic clock, an ambulance, …

Major government project in Africa bagged by Teledyne CARIS
Teledyne CARIS will be delivering a full software solution, through its distributor Unique Group to the South African Navy Hydrographic Office. The solution, includes software that will be implemented as part of a larger project to be executed by Southern African Shipyards (SAS) where a new …

Recently, a number of conifers dying due to climate change are being found in high altitude areas of Korean national parks. The existing tree investigation method has been judged by the human visual interpretation. However, with Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) it is not only possible to measure large areas immediately…