Location Intelligence

Near Space Labs send more Earth imaging robots to the stratosphere

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Source: techcrunch.com

Not so for Near Space Labs, a four-year-old company that instead aims to gather geospatial intelligence from the stratosphere, using small autonomous wind-powered robots attached to weather balloons. Near Space Labs also announced that Crosslink partner Phil Boyer has joined its board. Near Space focuses on urbanized areas where change happens rapidly. Near Space has booked over 540 flights through 2022. Looking ahead, the company will use the funds to expand its geographical footprint and bring on a bunch of new hires.

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Jacobs Wins National GEOINT Agency Contract

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Source: prnewswire.com

They awarded Jacobs a contract by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to provide mission-driven and data-centric solutions to support Geospatial-intelligence Enterprise Open Data Store (GEODS) services. The single-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) represents a $302 million contract value across a seven-year ordering period.

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Descartes Labs hosts the GEOINT 2021 Machine Learning Training Workshop

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Source: gisuser.com

They encouraged workshop attendees to bring their laptops for hands-on use of the Descartes Labs Geoprocessing Platform and Data Refinery. Descartes Labs will also exhibit at GEOINT 2021 where it will show the latest breakthroughs in multimodal sensor data fusion and advanced big data analytics and virtualization. Members of the Descartes Labs Science & Tech Solutions team will be on hand to discuss development of custom ISR solutions, geospatial data ingestion pipelines, and automated object detection and classification. The company also supports a diverse set of federal government efforts to curate, analyze, and provide unique actionable insights from geospatial data.

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Geo Connect Asia 2022 launches with focus on addressing key regional challenges

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Source: eco-business.com

The theme for Geo Connect Asia 2022 is Geospatial & Location Intelligence Solutions for Asia – Underground, Land & Sea to Sky. Geo Connect Asia enhances the digital transformation of key industries and helps address many of the real-time challenges facing decision-makers. Geo Connect Asia 2022 is a testament to the resilience of the MICE industry and its strong recovery. Rupert Owen, Co-founder of Geo Connect Asia, said, it pleased them to build on the positive response they received at the inaugural Geo Connect Asia this March. Comprising a two-day conference, forum, technical seminars, and a product exhibition, Geo Connect Asia 2022 will provide a one-stop-shop for exhibitors and visitors alike.

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Edgybees Selected as Finalist in the 2021 USGIF Innovative Tradecraft Competition

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Source: gisuser.com

Edgybees, the leading provider of precise, real-time geo-registration and actualization of aerial video and images, announced today that they have selected it as a finalist in the 2021 USGIF Innovative Tradecraft Competition. The competition recognizes innovative and useful geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) solutions that address mission problems through visualization, data sharing, and interoperability. “Being chosen as a finalist in the USGIF Innovative Tradecraft Competition is a true testament to the value of our technology in the field,” said Adam Kaplan, CEO and Co-Founder of Edgybees. As a Tradecraft Competition, finalist Edgybees will present on the main stage at the GEOINT Symposium on Wednesday, October 6th. The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is the only organization dedicated to promoting the geospatial intelligence tradecraft and building a stronger community of interest in industry, academia, government, professional organizations, and individual stakeholders.

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Maxar Awarded $26M Contract to Continue Development and Support for NGA Open Mapping Platform

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Source: gisuser.com

Under the agreement, Maxar will continue to provide engineering, software development and geospatial tradecraft to support NOME. “Maxar is excited to continue building upon the 10 years of development that have gone into NOME,” said Tony Frazier, Maxar’s Executive Vice President of Global Field Operations. “NOME is a highly effective mission enabler for the agency’s distributed workforce,” said James Griffith, Director of Source at NGA. NGA delivers world-class geospatial intelligence that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, warfighters, intelligence professionals and first responders. It is the world leader in timely, relevant, accurate and actionable geospatial intelligence.

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Aerial survey of Dubai: Watch how it is done by Dubai Municipality

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Source: gulfnews.com

Dubai Municipality has set new standards of technological excellence with its advanced aerial photography project currently being implemented using specialised survey aircraft. The aerial photography survey that has a high accuracy of 10 centimetres is one of the most important strategic projects being implemented by Dubai Municipality’s GIS Centre as part of its GeoDubai initiative. Maryam Obaid Al Muhairi, Director of the GIS Centre, said photographing and aerial surveying goes through many stages. Advanced technologies like automatic detection of changes in the available geospatial data and geospatial Artificial Intelligence optimize the extraction and update operations of geospatial data.

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View from India : Using satellite imagery to glean location intelligence

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Source: eandt.theiet.org

Satellite imagery could give inputs on location intelligence, which includes the development of land for specific time periods. Stanford University has predicted poverty levels using night-time satellite imagery, as well as per capita economic expenditure across continents. It also needs to be seen if satellite imagery can help determine the wealth levels of individuals. Satellite imagery has revealed that residents belonging to certain parts of south and north India were financially better off than their counterparts in Bihar and north-east India. It can leverage geospatial tech tools for culling out information derived from the geospatial data and satellite imagery. Geospatial data and satellite images bring us close to real-time feeds and have diverse applications.

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Introducing the Government Geography Profession Leadership Team

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Source: gov.uk

David Wood, Deputy Director Environmental Analysis, supports developing countries in strengthening their geospatial data systems. He and his team built this support on robust geospatial data. He supports geospatial thinking early in any career through mentorship, learning and sharing training and job opportunities. So that individuals develop themselves, receive career support, on-line resources and backing for formal accreditations. His team works on spatial data science, aiming to bring fresh approaches to bear for working with geospatial data on cross cutting environmental policy problems.

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Geospatial AI And The New Italian Renaissance

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Source: wateronline.com

However, rural Tuscany has a relatively low population density and, despite the size of its network, AdF serves only around 400,000 customers. Their mission to become a data-driven utility led to an initial deployment of Rezatec’s Geospatial AI Pipeline Risk product across 674 km of the AdF water network in a pilot programme launched in January 2021. The Pipeline Risk tool assesses these parameters against several years of historical network failure data to characterise the risk factors. Indeed, in adopting the Rezatec tool, AdF has joined much larger players, such as the Italian multi-utility HERA, in using high-tech geospatial AI solutions. Of these nine, six fall in an area showed as very high criticality, two in high criticality areas, and just one in a low criticality area as determined by the geospatial AI model.

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