April 21, 2019 -- Huntsville, AL - GeoCue Group announced today the release of Get3Di, a geospatial data portal specifically designed to make finding, accessing, and downloading our nation’s vast collection of public LIDAR and Image data sources (3Di) as easy as any online shopping experience.

Get3Di differs from other online geospatial data portals by offering public data that can be used for any purpose, royalty free. Subscription prices are set to recover data download costs.

Hank DiPietro, GeoCue's VP of Business Development, says, "Our mission with Get3Di is to make public 3D data easy to find and download. Currently, to get quality public data you must look through multiple sites or try to download the data from a crowded server. We designed Get3Di to solve that problem. Our goal is to make Get3Di the ‘one-stop-shop’ of the best public 3D imagery data in the United States."

Get3Di can be accessed at get3di.com^[1].

The initial release of Get3Di focuses on the state of Florida, other state datasets are coming online daily. If you are a public data provider and want more information on how your state can participate in Get3Di, please contact Email Contact^[2]....

Derek Watkins has created a simple and easy to use interface for downloading 30-Meter SRTM data.  

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OREM, Utah, April 19, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- SpotterRF, a manufacturer of industry-leading ground surveillance radar, is announcing it's forthcoming a software release for their NetworkedIO (NIO) 4.0 software platform which adds Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the automatic classification of targets.

SPOTTERai is automatic track classification included as part of the NIO software that ensures a trainable neural network that based on low-level radar data automatically assigns a classification type and confidence level for each target. The use of AI and Machine Learning in the NIO assists in reducing false alerts and allows end-users to improve the performance of the system simply by manually selecting the type of targets being tracked and retraining the AI.

"The AI classifier and trainer are an excellent tool to further reduce false alarms and reduce the workload on the operator. After the operator manually classifies 30 tracks or more of at least two different types the AI is able to differentiate between those types, such as between cars and people or birds and drones with confidence that increases as more tracks are classified", said Logan Harris, CEO, and Founder of SpotterRF.

"With our new AI engine, customers will be able...

For Earth observation and GIS technologies, researchers have only recently begun contemplating what might be useful in applying blockchain technologies.

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CoreLogic Releases 2019 Insurance Coverage Adequacy Report, in Response to Increased Natural Hazards in U.S.

The U.S. has seen an increase in the number of natural disasters between the years 2016 and 2018. The resulting “underinsurance issues” have kept analytics and data-enabled solutions providers very busy with analyzing the new wave of areas that would be better served by increased natural hazard coverage.

CoreLogic^®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, released its newest analysis, the 2019 Insurance Coverage Adequacy Report, which shows increases in reconstruction costs in certain disaster-prone areas range from 5.6 percent to 7.6 percent from 2016 to 2018. According to this report, CoreLogic examines potential underinsurance issues in four regional scenarios of the U.S. with exposure to natural hazards: The Northeast Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions with hurricane-related storm surge risk; California with wildfire risk; and Oklahoma with tornado risk.

Tom Larsen, content strategy principal for Insurance and Spatial Solutions, and Guy Kopperud, industry solutions principal for Insurance and Spatial Solutions, contributed to the following interview with GISCafe Voice....

1. When you speak of “underinsurance,” are these homes/properties you’re talking about ones who do not carry adequate insurance or simply did not insure for

Munich, 18/04/19 -- European Space Imaging captured an image over Paris on Wednesday 17 April with WorldView-2 at 50 cm spatial resolution. The image highlights the damage caused by the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral that started Monday night.

A close up image of Notre Dame Cathedral captured after the fire with WorldView-2 at 50 cm. Satellite Imagery © 2019 European Space Imaging

European Space Imaging is also releasing an image captured with WorldView-2 on 11 September 2018 to be used in comparison to demonstrate the level of damage occurred. The image collected yesterday clearly shows the spire and wooden roof completely desecrated leaving behind blackened charred rubble.

In addition to the series of before and after images, an animated gif has been provided that you may use within your news story..

A close up image of Notre Dame Cathedral captured before the fire with WorldView-2 at 40 cm. Satellite Imagery © 2018 European Space Imaging

Overview image of Notre Dame Cathedral captured after the fire with WorldView-2 at 50 cm. Satellite Imagery © 2019 European Space Imaging

Overview image of Notre Dame Cathedral captured before the fire with WorldView-2 at 40 cm. Satellite Imagery © 2018 European Space Imaging

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NORTH VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 17, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Vizzion, supplier of the world's largest traffic camera network^[1], today announced the expansion of its partnership with HERE Technologies, the Open Location Platform company and leading provider of real-time traffic information. Vizzion is now supplying the HERE Traffic Operations Center with global traffic camera imagery and video feeds through the Desktop Video Wall application.

The partnership will bring Vizzion's network of over 60,000 live traffic cameras into the hands of traffic editors at the HERE operations center in Chicago. HERE uses traffic camera feeds as one of many sources to locate, understand, and report real-time traffic incident information in markets around the world.

The Desktop Video Wall^[2], built to support traffic editors, helps users visualize incidents and the causes of delays to create more accurate traffic information. "The Desktop Video Wall allows our Traffic Quality Specialists to efficiently and accurately confirm reported incidents, validate...

Highlights:

• Study reveals 61 percent of survey participants believe business sustainability is mandatory
• 58 percent said environmentally conscious practices are key to engaging future workforce
• 46 percent said they would only work for companies with sustainable business practices
• 53 percent of office decision makers did not realize imitation printer cartridges are not recyclable
• HP invests $2 million to sustainable supplies and promoting a circular economy

PALO ALTO, Calif., April 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, HP unveiled a new study underscoring the importance of sustainable business practices in recruiting, hiring and retaining top talent. It also finds that employees are more productive, motivated and engaged when working for an employer who is leading the charge in social responsibility. The global, 20,000 participant survey^[1] found that 61 percent believe sustainability is mandatory for businesses¹. Of those interviewed, 56 percent believe that ignoring environmental impact in the workplace is as bad as ignoring diversity and inclusion.

For many businesses, the first wave of sustainable changes was addressed through big ticket items like LEED building certification and energy efficient lighting. Now they are focusing on the next layer of easily overlooked sustainable...

Increasing usage of IoT in the agriculture sector is contributing to the growth of the precision Farming/Agriculture market. Farm managers & producers are leveraging the capabilities of the IoT devices, such as sensors, GPS & GNSS systems, and automated steering systems, for soil sampling, temperature monitoring, filed mapping, irrigation management, and several other applications

Market Size – USD 5.3 Billion in 2018, Market Growth - CAGR of 12.7%, Market Trends – New product launches and increasing usage of IoT in Farming/Agriculture practices

NEW YORK, April 17, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to the current analysis of Reports and Data, the global precision Farming/Agriculture market was valued at USD 5.3 Billion in 2018 and is expected to reach USD 14.1 Billion by the year 2026, at a CAGR of 12.7%. This high growth is mainly attributable to an increasing usage of GPS & GIS systems to monitor agricultural parameters. These field mapping systems help to gather real-time data and enable the analysis of a huge geospatial data set. These systems facilitate field mapping, soil sampling, and farm planning and help farmers to adopt effective soil or plant treatment strategies, increasing farm production. In addition, sensors are placed throughout the field that measure temperature, nutrition level and humidity...