TomTom, the mapmaker and location technology specialist, will provide the community-driven auto insurance provider Loop with its speed profiles, traffic stats and maps to help Loop customers make safer driving choices and receive insurance rates that are based on fair, bias-free criteria.
WGIC member e-GEOS, Telespazio and ISI (ImageSat International) have announced a partnership to form a broad ranging commercial ELECTRO Optical-SAR earth observation satellite constellation.
‘The Innovative Mobility Landscape: The Case of Mobility as a Service’, published by WGIC partner the International Transport Forum (ITF) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), examines how Mobility as a Service (MaaS) can reshape travel in cities.
On July 20, 2021, Autodesk, Inc. announced that it has terminated discussions to acquire Altium Limited.
The report “Towards the Localization of the SDGs”, facilitated by UCLG, provides an analysis of LRGs’ efforts to respond to the pandemic in cities and territories worldwide, as well as their connections with the SDGs under review.
Hexagon announced the acquisition of Immersal Oy, a pioneer and leading innovator of spatial mapping and visual positioning solutions used to produce augmented reality (AR) applications.
WGIC partner WFEO, UNDESA, UNESCO, and UN Office of Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology released their “Resource Guide on Artificial Intelligence Strategies”.
During Esri’s User Conference, thousands of GIS users and enthusiasts took a chance to learn more about new ArcGIS-related products and capabilities. Here are six prime examples.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites software developers to the July 2021 OGC API Virtual Code Sprint, to be held from July 21st to July 23rd, 2021.
ITU Telecom World started out life in Geneva in 1971, with “a message to the 21st century”. In 1971 ICT was all about telecoms; voice over a fixed infrastructure, run by national operators out of government departments.
Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure company Maxar Technologies announced that the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) it is developing for NASA’s lunar Gateway has passed its first Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and remains on track for launch in 2024.
WGIC member Cyient announced that it has been selected by…
International cooperation will be vital to reduce global disaster risks, agreed the participants at a recent workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for natural disaster management convened by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and UN Environment (UNEP).
GHGSat announced a research project to assess the feasibility of its high-resolution, space-based methane monitoring technology to measure emissions from offshore oil and gas platforms.
WGIC member Bentley Systems announced that its Seequent business unit has acquired
Danish company Aarhus GeoSoftware, a developer of geophysical software. The acquisition
extends Seequent’s solutions for operational ground water management, and for sustainability
projects involving exploration, contaminants, and infrastructure resilience.
A recent transaction between WGIC member Satellogic and CF Acquisition Corp. V will lead the company to its appearance on the Nasdaq.
Zarr can represent very large array datasets in a simple, scalable way, and is compatible with cloud object storage – making it ideal for analysis-ready geospatial data. CoverageJSON has been demonstrated to be an effective, efficient format, friendly to web and application developers. Both are considered for OGC adoption.
Loft Orbital, which flies and operates customer payloads on its YAM series of small satellites, launched their YAM-2 satellite, the first in space to be equipped with Fugro’s SpaceStar next-generation positioning technology.
Esri released a high-resolution, 2020 global land cover map as part of the company’s Living Atlas. The map was built using European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, and developed using a new machine learning workflow teaming with new Esri Silver Partner Impact Observatory, as well as long-time partner Microsoft.
On Thursday, 29 April 2021, 9-10 AM (NY time), the offcial launch of the ARIES for SEEA Explorer took place. It’s a new open-source and user-friendly digital technology which enables standardized and customizable ecosystem accounting.