2019 Global UAV Market -- China is Claiming the Throne

SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 23, 2019 — (PRNewswire) — Over the past years, unmanned aerial vehicle technology has been drastically applied for commercial purposes following the wide application of UAV, increasingly established AI technology, electronic and wireless control technological improvement and especially the invention of multi-rotor structure. It is reported that the number of total commercial UAV output reached over 4,000,000 in 2018, indicating a growing market with great potential.

DJI, as a leader in consumer drone market, takes up 70% of market share. MMC UAV on the other hand is strengthening its dominance over industrial UAV market. In recent years, MMC UAV has been utilizing industrial synergy strength to build an open and sharing UAV eco-system. Ever since 2015, its business has touched upon five continents, covering such areas as energy inspection, public safety, rescue, mapping, and environmental protection etc. MMC has five industry centers in Shenzhen, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hubei and Jiangxi province with an all-round industry-chain layout from design, R&D, manufacturing, sales, training, and service. Other notable Chinese UAV companies include EHang, Yuneec, ChinaRS, ZeroTech.

1. UAV Development Trend

In recent years, consumer drone...

25 years of INTERGEO – an evolutionary success

When the very first visitors to INTERGEO passed through the turnstiles in Dortmund’s Westfalenhallen exhibition centre on the dot of 9 a.m. on 23 August 1995, even the most wildly optimistic observers could hardly have imagined the trajectory this fledgling event was embarking upon. Although the geodesists conference was a firm fixture in this specialist field, the trade fair – until then billed as the “accompanying exhibition” – with its 185 exhibitors was really quite modest, despite having grown considerably, compared to the event held in Mainz in 1994. This year 680 exhibitors from all over the world show their innovations. The CONFERENCE will give numerous impulses. Celebrate this year´s INTERGEO and experience the largest platform of the Geopatial Community. And read what's there and who's there. Now in INTERGEO report 2019.
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A recently published book features research on using Google Earth Engine to access and analyze GIS Data.

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Enrique Lores appointed President and CEO of HP Inc. effective November 1, 2019

Dion Weisler to step down while remaining a director on the company’s board

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 22, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) today announced that its board of directors has unanimously appointed Enrique Lores, currently President of HP’s Imaging, Printing and Solutions business, to succeed Dion Weisler as the company’s President and CEO, effective November 1. Weisler’s decision to step down at this time is due to a family health matter and he will be returning home to Australia. He will work with Lores to ensure a seamless transition and will remain at the company through January 2020. Following this, Weisler will continue to serve on HP’s board of directors until the next annual meeting of stockholders.

Weisler joined HP in 2012 and has served as President and CEO since 2015. HP has added approximately $7 billion in annual revenue, generated over $13 billion in free cash flow, and has met or exceeded its non-GAAP EPS guidance for 15 consecutive quarters since separation.

“Serving as CEO of HP is the highlight of my career, and I want to thank the entire HP team for the support they have shown me. I’m incredibly proud of what we...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 22, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HP (NYSE: HPQ)
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• Third quarter GAAP diluted net earnings per share ("EPS") of $0.78, above the previously provided outlook of $0.49 to $0.52 per share
• Third quarter non-GAAP diluted net EPS of $0.58, above the previously provided outlook of $0.53 to $0.56 per share
• Third quarter net revenue of $14.6 billion, up 0.1% from the prior-year period
• Third quarter net cash provided by operating activities of $2.3 billion, free cash flow of $2.2 billion
• Third quarter returned $0.8 billion to shareholders in the form of share repurchases and dividends

HP Inc. fiscal 2019 third quarter financial performance
		Q3 FY19					Q3 FY18					Y/Y
GAAP net revenue ($B)		$	14.6				$	14.6				0.1	%
GAAP operating margin		7.4			%		7.0			%		0.4 pts

UAV/LiDAR Fusion by Design with TrueView from GeoCue

GeoCue President and CTO, Lewis Graham, answered some questions for GISCafe Voice about GeoCue products and their new TrueView platform. TrueView is UAV/LiDAR fusion by design, according to company materials, an integrated LIDAR/camera fusion platform designed from the ground up to generate high accuracy 3D colorized point clouds.

TrueView Technical Specifications:

• Software Workflow
• Data Analysis
• Overview of Business Models

Who are the primary users of the GeoCue products?

We have three units within our company – what I call “traditional” airborne/mobile laser scanner (ALS/MLS), an Enterprise development unit that focuses on creating applications that are cloud-hosted (in Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure) and our UAS division where the True View and other products are located.

For ALS/MLS our primary customers are professional collectors and exploiters of LIDAR data collected from manned aircraft and mobile platforms.  These tend to be production companies, engineering firms and government agencies who exploit LIDAR data such as the USGS and USDA.

Our Enterprise unit works with customers who need to do a lot of processing and need automatic scaling.  For example, we built and now manage a large...

Virginia Beach, VA (August 22, 2019) -- DroneUp, LLC, an end-to-end drone pilot service provider for aerial data collection, will showcase its Mission MatchTM platform, connecting their clients’ requirements to complete drone services at Booth #311 at InterDrone 2019; held September 3-6, 2019, in Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Kicking off the conference, DroneUp's CIO, Joe Fuller, will be presenting a Solutions Showcase. He’ll review why DroneUp’s integration and customer service provides keen analysis to existing processes, and how extending the clients’ workforce with drone services is a cost-effective, safe and efficient method to gain data and reporting requirements for every organization.

Anthony Vittone, COO of DroneUp, will moderate a panel of industry experts on growing your drone service business during an InterDrone After Hours event. Joining Anthony on the panel are seasoned veteran’s in the industry: Kathleen Swain, Senior Director, UAS Programs, AOPA; Andrew Dennison, Director of Enterprise Services, DroneDeploy; Tomer Kashi, CEO & Founder, SkyWatch.AI; and Derrick Ward, CEO, Hot Shots Aerial. 

Rounding out DroneUp events, CEO, Tom Walker, will take an unfiltered look at our industry and why we may be ignoring our best assets during his keynote presentation and announcement. Is it possible that we have become our own biggest roadblock to success? Has the constant debate about regulations obscured the value of...

AMD GPUs, CPUs and Software Accelerate Performance for Many Applications & Industries

We recently interviewed Glen Matthews, Head of Product Management from AMD at SIGGRAPH 2019 conference in Los Angeles, CA. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is a semiconductor company that develops computer processors and related technologies. AMD's main products include microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embedded processors and graphics processors for servers, workstations, personal computers and embedded system applications. AMD is the second-largest supplier and only significant rival to Intel in the market for x86-based microprocessors. Since acquiring ATI in 2006, AMD and its competitor Nvidia have maintained a competitive duopoly in the discrete graphics processing unit (GPU) market.

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Sanjay Gangal: Can you tell us about AMD’s recent major announcement?

Glen Matthews: We're introducing Radeon ProRender’s^[1] updated full-spectrum rendering that allows you to go from rasterization to a complete fully ray traced rendering. The way it works, essentially, is as you go from just rasterized to a hybrid image which allows you to turn on some levels of ray tracing. Depending on how much visibility you want, we have improved lighting, and improved reflections that occur on water or glass. Our AI-based solutions allow you to de-noise...

DENVER, Colorado, USA, 22 August 2019 – LAND INFO Worldwide Mapping LLC has been named to the 2019 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the United States. The firm credits its explosive three-year revenue growth to recent contract wins supporting 5G wireless network mapping.

“We are honored to join a very select group of geospatial companies to make the Inc. 5000 list,” said LAND INFO president Nick Hubing.

The 2019 Inc. 5000 companies are ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2015 and 2018, according to Inc. magazine.

“The companies on this year’s Inc. 5000 have followed so many different paths to success,” says Inc. editor in chief James Ledbetter. “There’s no single course you can follow or investment you can take that will guarantee this kind of spectacular growth. But what they have in common is persistence and seizing opportunities.”

“LAND INFO’s revenue growth has been driven by multi-year investments in proprietary automated mapping technologies, including object-based image analysis and artificial intelligence, which have positioned us to support the demanding needs of 5G wireless network design,” said Hubing.

Established in 1993, LAND INFO provides geodata solutions for diverse industries...