How Geography Can Bring Insight to Communities Facing a Turbulent World

REDLANDS, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — February 16, 2021 — Esri^[1], the global leader in location intelligence, today announced the publication of Resilient Communities across Geographies^[2].

How do communities deal with unexpected situations on the scale of a global pandemic, for example? How much of the response is planned in advance? How well does that plan protect those most vulnerable and spread resources equitably?

In their book, Resilient Communities across Geographies, authors Sheila and Steven Steinberg examine the theory and application of different communities' abilities to respond to and recover from unexpected, disruptive situations. Examples vary from ecosystem resilience to climate adaptation to urban and cultural resilience.

Although there are many different forms of resilience, they all share some characteristic patterns. These patterns can be revealed and better understood by geographic information system (GIS) technology. The application of GIS yields actionable information culminating in a resilience plan.

In this book for academics and practitioners, readers will be able to discern patterns of theoretical frameworks, analytical methods, and GIS applications that will undoubtedly be relevant to their own fields of interest.

Resilient Communities across Geographies^[3] is available in print (ISBN: 9781589484818, 320 pages,...

New Book Offers the Fundamentals of ArcMap

REDLANDS, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — February 16, 2021 — Esri^[1], the global leader in location intelligence, today announced the publication of Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop 10.8^[2].

In the latest edition of this long-standing popular choice for classrooms, Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop 10.8 guides students and professionals alike through the fundamentals of making maps and analyzing data using the latest Esri ArcGIS Desktop software.

This is a comprehensive, hands-on tutorial, moving readers from basic GIS concepts to sophisticated GIS analysis. Along the way, readers gain practical knowledge about ArcGIS Desktop tools and functionality. Exercises address querying map data, making map layouts, symbolizing and labeling maps, setting map projections, creating and sharing web maps, building and editing geodatabases, and analyzing geospatial data.

Data for completing the exercises and a 180-day free trial of ArcGIS are also available for download.

Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop 10.8^[3] is available as an e-book (ISBN: 9781589485785, US$99.99) from most online retailers worldwide.

About Esri

Esri, the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping, helps customers unlock the full potential of data to improve operational and business results. Founded in 1969 in Redlands,...

QUEBEC CITY and SEOUL, Korea, Feb. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LeddarTech^[1]®, an industry leader in environmental sensing solutions for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems from Level 1 to Level 5, is proud to announce that Seoul Robotics^[2], the leading 3D computer vision company using AI and machine learning to power the future of mobility, has joined the Leddar™ Ecosystem^[3]. The Leddar Ecosystem comprises leading technology companies that have partnered with LeddarTech through the contribution of their expertise in various technologies that enhance ADAS and AD solutions.

Seoul Robotics, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, has demonstrated expertise in LiDAR perception technology utilizing its proprietary SENSR 3D software. This platform analyzes and processes LiDAR data with high accuracy, enabling more industries, including retail, logistics, and smart cities, to apply 3D insights. Seoul Robotics has garnered much attention in recent years, with the company earning the “No. 1 Tech Startup” spot for South Korea by DB-Stars in 2019.

LeddarTech and Seoul Robotics are collaborating to develop real-time advanced perception solutions to complement LeddarTech’s Leddar™ Pixell^[4], designed for shuttles, robotaxis, ADVs, buses, and heavy commercial vehicles. The Leddar Pixell, a 3D flash solid-state 180-degree sensor,...

- Ensuring Continuous Operations of GPS-based services -

CAESAREA, Israel — (BUSINESS WIRE) — February 16, 2021 — infiniDome Ltd^[1]., The GPS Security Company, today announces participation with Israeli partner, Focus Telecom^[2], in a new country-wide project with Israel Railways. The project involves deployment by Focus Telecom of GPS repeaters at more than 30 railway stations across Israel, providing accurate, location-based service indoors at all locations for a new Israel Railways ticketing app. A critical component of the project is a monitoring service that detects and provides alerts of any GPS disruption or interference in real time, as they are identified. This is facilitated by infiniDome’s IoT GPSensors^[3] and its cloud-based GPS monitoring service, infiniCloud^[4].

“Incorporating infiniDome’s proven resilient PNT^[5] capability to monitor and protect such a critical GPS service is a necessary enhancement for government designated critical infrastructures,” said Ehud Sharar, Focus Telecom CEO.

infiniDome’s monitoring technology for critical assets detects and alerts operators of threats and disruptions of the essential GPS signals. These threats can originate from both malicious or natural causes.

“ GPSensor^[6] IoT technology combined with our infiniCloud^[7] GPS security cloud assures real-time alerts about jamming...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 16, 2021 — (PRNewswire) — MathWorks, the leading developer of mathematical computing software for engineers and scientists, and AImotive, Europe's most funded automated driving technology supplier have begun a collaboration to integrate RoadRunner into aiSim allowing users to easily create road and 3D networks for simulation in aiSim – the most deterministic and robust solution on the market!

Tech key to safe adoption of autonomous vehicles, flying objects and machinery

LONDON, Feb. 16, 2021 — (PRNewswire) —Autonomous trucks need to warn e-bikes of their presence to avoid accidents, first responders need to know the position of critical medical drones with pinpoint accuracy, and operators need to precisely locate precious cargo. Vodafone customers will have applications that do all that and more thanks to a new technology it is testing.

Vodafone has successfully used new precision positioning technology to remotely track a vehicle to within just 10 centimetres of its location, an improvement of more than three metres compared with current standard satellite based systems.  It did this in partnership with leading global positioning provider Sapcorda, using Vodafone's global Internet of Things (IoT) platform – the largest in the world with 118 million connections.

Pinpoint accuracy is critical to the acceptance and mass adoption of autonomous vehicles not just on the road but in factories, airports, dockyards and any site where machines are in motion. A matter of centimetres could be crucial to ensuring the safety of passengers on a driverless bus, or knowing the precise location of a medical drone. It will also allow an autonomous truck to...

All-Stock Merger Proposal Represents a 20% Improvement to the Value of CoreLogic’s Pending Transaction

Combination of CoStar Group and CoreLogic Expected to Deliver $150 - $250 Million in Annual Run-Rate Adjusted EBITDA Synergies Within Three to Four Years, Delivering Superior Value to CoreLogic Shareholders

Transaction Is Expected to Be Highly Accretive to Adjusted EPS by Approximately 30 Percent in Year One Before Synergies

WASHINGTON — (BUSINESS WIRE) — February 16, 2021 — Today, CoStar Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSGP^[1]) delivered a letter to the Board of Directors of CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX^[2]) setting forth the terms of a superior proposal by CoStar Group to acquire 100% of the equity interests of CoreLogic. Under the terms of the proposal, CoreLogic shareholders would receive 0.1019 shares of CoStar Group common stock in exchange for each share of CoreLogic common stock, representing a value of approximately $95.76 per share based on CoStar Group’s closing share price on February 12, 2021. CoStar’s proposal represents 16.2% pro forma diluted ownership for CoreLogic shareholders in the combined entity, and a $15.76 per share improvement to the value of CoreLogic’s pending transaction as of February 12, 2021.

The following is a copy of the letter that CoStar Group delivered to the Board of Directors of CoreLogic on...

 

 

New work items for the SWG include extensions to OGC API - Processes that will simplify the deployment and execution of “geospatial processing apps” and chained workflows.

 

15 February 2021: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on a revision to the OGC API - Processes Standards Working Group (SWG) Charter, which introduces new work items for the SWG. Comments are due by March 8, 2021.

The OGC API - Processes SWG^[1] is the group within the OGC membership responsible for the development and maintenance of the OGC API - Processes^[2] core standard and its extensions, as well as for maintaining the WPS standard.

OGC API - Processes provides organizations the opportunity to make available on the web geospatial software libraries and utilities that, up until now, had only been available as standalone desktop products. It forms a crucial part of OGC’s “user-to-the-data” architecture^[3] that allows users to not only mine intelligence from their cloud-based data through streamlined analysis, but also to create value-added products for others to use.

OGC API - Processes, like its...

NACKA STRAND, Sweden, Feb. 15, 2021 — (PRNewswire) —Hexagon AB, a global leader in sensor, software and autonomous solutions, today announced the launch of a new business venture focused on reinventing how industry addresses complex environmental challenges: R-evolution.

R-evolution is founded to accelerate the transition to a sustainable economy, running profit-driven investments in green-tech projects where Hexagon's technology can be applied. The move to form R-evolution comes on the heels of Hexagon's recent announcements to further develop its sustainability agenda, including climate goals to significantly reduce its own carbon footprint. Targets to positively impact the environment now include supporting the world's sustainability journey through R-evolution. The first set of investments, centered around renewable energy, will involve the construction and operation of a portfolio of cutting-edge solar farms, targeted at producing energy with 50,000 tonnes less CO2 equivalents per annum than the grid's residual mix.

"Hexagon is in the business of leveraging technology and data in ways that improve productivity and quality while making processes more efficient. The result is fewer inputs and less waste. The concept behind R-evolution is no different. Green-tech projects can benefit from many of the same sensor, software, and autonomous solutions our customers use today," says Hexagon President and CEO Ola Rollén^[1]...