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BioDigital Announces $4M Funding to Create a 3D Model of the Human Body

September 25, 2013 - By

BioDigital, Inc. announced they’ve received $4MM in Series A funding led by FirstMark Capital with participation from the NYU Venture Fund and a number of prominent angel investors. According to the announcement, BioDigital has been pioneering the use of 3D technology to simplify health concepts for a decade.  Regardless of the customer the underlying problem remained the same: traditional methods of communicating... read more

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Ordnance Survey uses OpenData to Create a Minecraft Map of Great Britain

September 25, 2013 - By

Great Britain’s Ordnance Survey announced a  team developing ideas for future products and services at Ordnance Survey has created a map of Great Britain in the popular Minecraft video game, featuring 22 billion blocks, using their freely available digital map products in OS OpenData, and made it available for download as a new Minecraft world. According to the announcement, the... read more

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u-blox Releases Improved Sub-Meter GPS Positioning Module NEO-7P

September 24, 2013 - By

Swiss-based u‑blox has introduced the NEO-7P, an improved, low-power, compact, high-precision GPS module. While remaining backwards compatible with its predecessor NEO-6P, the new module achieves standalone sub-meter precision based on single-frequency precise point positioning (PPP) technology. Fully autonomous sub-meter performance can be realized for most outdoor applications within coverage of Satellite Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) throughout North America (WAAS), Europe... read more

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Landsat Images Show Devastation Caused by Colorado Floods

September 24, 2013 - By

NASA’s Earth Observatory released images illustrating the September floods in Colorado. Though water levels on the South Platte River were receding, muddy brown waters were still out of the river’s banks near Greeley, Colorado, on September 17, 2013, when the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite acquired this image. At the time, the river was more than six feet above flood stage, down... read more

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Esri Announces ArcGIS Marketplace, Apps for GIS

September 23, 2013 - By

Esri announces the launch of ArcGIS Marketplace, a new destination that allows ArcGIS Online subscribers to search, discover, and get apps and data from qualified providers for use within their organization. ArcGIS Marketplace provides data from organizations such as DigitalGlobe, RapidEye, AccuWeather, and Esri, as well as apps created by Esri and its distributors and partners, such as Latitude Geographics,... read more

QGIS 2.0 (Dufour) Released

September 23, 2013 - By

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) announced the release of QGIS 2.0. QGIS is a cross-platform free and open source desktop geographic information systems (GIS) application that provides data viewing, editing, and analysis capabilities.   What’s new in QGIS 2.0 User Interface New icon theme: We have updated our icon theme to use the ‘GIS’ theme introducing an improved level of consistency and professionalism to... read more

Global Mapper V15 Released with Extension Interface and Powerful New LiDAR Tools

September 23, 2013 - By

Blue Marble Geographics announces the release of Global Mapper version 15. This major release includes many powerful updates along with a new extension interface that provides add-on functionality capabilities including the COAST tool and a new LiDAR Module. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software, oil and gas, mining,... read more

The Connected Vehicle

September 19, 2013 - By

Sponsored by: Hemisphere GNSS Original Broadcast Date: Thursday, September 19, 2013 Moderator: Janice Partyka, Wireless LBS Insider editor Speakers: David Jumpa, Chief Revenue Officer, Airbiquity; Scott McCormick, President, Connected Vehicle Trade Association; Andrew Maliszewski, Executive VP, Micronet; Scott Sedlik, VP Product and Marketing, Inrix Summary: The biggest announcements and the most interesting news at the three big wireless/electronics shows in 2013 have all concerned the connected car. Location is a core technology.  How will... read more

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