RFI for the OGC Health SDI Concept Development Study will support the development of a Health Emergencies Data Model and the design of a Health Spatial Data Infrastructure.

 

6 January 2021: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks, in support of the OGC Health SDI Concept Development Study (CDS)^[1], to gather information concerning capturing, mapping, analyzing, modeling, and sharing spatial data to deal with major health emergencies. The Health SDI CDS will support the development of a Health Emergencies Data Model and the design of a Health Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). Responses are due by the 29th of January, 2021.

The ongoing difficulties with acquiring and operationalizing data associated with the COVID-19 pandemic have provided a strong impetus for OGC to mobilize its community of global expertise to find practical solutions. Data collected at different levels of government is often neither standardized, integrated, nor interoperable. Monitoring of critical supply chains has proven an enormous challenge during this pandemic and, as such, there have been severe shortages of vital equipment for protracted periods of time. Patient data is often not digitized and geocoded at first contact with the health system -...

TOKYO, Jan. 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MetCom and NextNav today announced a new licensing partnership to deliver resilient, precise, and secure solutions for 3D Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) in Japan through the NextNav TerraPoiNT solution.

Leveraging partnerships with Japanese Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) service providers KYOCERA Communication Systems (KCCS) and Sony Network Communications (SNC), MetCom plans to deploy NextNav’s innovative Terrestrial Beacon System, TerraPoiNT, to serve the emerging PNT needs of Japan’s critical infrastructure and technology sector.

PNT services are vital for the digital economy, providing infrastructure support for everything from electric grids to financial services, public safety applications to autonomous vehicles and location based services to intelligent transportation. As the reach and use of location continues to grow, the demand for a new generation of highly available, secure and precise 3D PNT solutions is reaching a critical point.

Unfortunately, current Satellite-based Positioning Systems (SPS) like the Global Positioning System (GPS) and Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) face significant operational challenges in dense urban areas. Signals are unable to penetrate buildings and urban canyons, leaving significant coverage gaps. With the proliferation of SPS jammers, unencrypted satellite location signals are defenseless against spoofing or jamming.

With encrypted communications and ranging signals 100,000x stronger than...

 

• Kleos has appointed experienced industry executive Eric von Eckartsberg as its Chief Revenue Officer to lead global sales
• New sales team appointments include Guillermo Gutierrez as Product Manager and Alex Johnson as Sales Executive
• Follows appointment of Heribert Krämer as COO, and establishment of US Engineering Office in Denver last month

Luxembourg /U.S. - Kleos Space S.A. (ASX: KSS, Frankfurt: KS1), a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data-as-a-service (DaaS) company, continues to strengthen its global senior leadership team, appointing seasoned industry executive Eric von Eckartsberg as its Chief Revenue Officer.

US-based Eric von Eckartsberg is a highly qualified business executive with an extensive background leading rapid growth in international sales and business development teams within the defence and intelligence sectors. His extensive industry expertise includes senior leadership roles at satellite imagery and geospatial services providers Maxar Corporation and Vricon Inc, network security analytics platform RedSeal Networks, and advanced AI and text analytics software company Basis Technology Corp. He also served as a US Government Intelligence Officer for more than a decade.

Eric will be responsible for Kleos’ global sales, the business development and sales teams and strategic customer partnerships.

As Kleos prepares for commercialisation of its global activity-based intelligence data,...

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6, 2021 — (PRNewswire) — Sense Photonics announced today that it has achieved an industry-first by successfully demonstrating 200-meter detection with its proprietary global shutter flash LiDAR system.

The Sense system leverages the company's proprietary emitter and SPAD sensor technologies. Sense Silicon, a backside illuminated CMOS SPAD device with more than 140,000 pixels, is designed to work seamlessly with the Sense Illuminator, a distributed 940nm laser array of more than 15,000 VCSELs. Together, they are the core building blocks of Sense's camera-like architecture enabling the first high-resolution, eye-safe, global shutter flash LiDAR that can detect 10% reflective targets at 200 meters range in full sunlight outputting tens of millions of points per second. Global shutter acquisition sets a new standard in the long-range LiDAR industry by removing the need for complex motion blur correction while allowing pixel-level, frame-by-frame fusion with RGB camera data.

"We have delivered what industry experts thought was impossible due to our 940nm wavelength, and have created a revolutionary new architecture with the Sense Illuminator, Sense Silicon, and our state-of-the-art signal processing pipeline to miniaturize the data output," said Hod Finkelstein, CTO, Sense Photonics. "Our LiDAR systems will solve the shortcomings that OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and...

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Swift Navigation^[1], a San Francisco-based tech firm redefining GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) and precise positioning technology, reflects on an unprecedented, yet productive 2020 and looks ahead to the potential that 2021 holds.

As the world braved the unknowns that came with 2020, Swift is proud of its team’s accomplishments in the face of uncertainty. Some highlights from 2020 include...

• Headquarters Move—Swift moved into new headquarters in San Francisco’s Financial District to accommodate its expanding team. The office awaits the team’s return when it is safe to do so.
• Skylark Expansion—Swift announced its partnership with Deutsche Telekom enabling the expansion of Skylark^[2]™ across Germany. As 2020 came to an end, Skylark is now available across the U.S., Europe, Japan, South Korea and Australia. Skylark is an ever-expanding precise positioning service and is scalable to support millions of users.
• Cross-Country Drive Test—Swift announced the results^[3] of its ambitious 6,614 mile (10,583 km) round-trip, cross-country drive test to demonstrate Skylark’s consistent performance on a continental scale.
• State Space Representation (SSR) Support—As a contributing member of 3GPP, Swift announced^[4] its support of 3GPP’s first-of-its-kind, truly-open and independently-governed SSR positioning standards. This continued with announcing^[5]

Brandon Torres Declet one of 12 appointees providing advice to the Secretary of Transportation on drone regulation

WASHINGTON and AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 6, 2021 — (PRNewswire) — MEASURE, a leading aerial intelligence company, and U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao, announced Brandon Torres Declet, CEO and Co-Founder of MEASURE has been appointed to the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Drone Advisory Committee (DAC).