The UK Ministry of Defence(MoD) has announced a Enterprise Agreement with Esri UK, which will help deliver operational benefits to the whole Defense community
Worth over £46M, this new three-year contract provides broader and easier access to Esri’s location-based technologies and services in an open, scalable and evergreen manner
The partnership will help MoD achieve and maintain information advantage across its enterprise, accelerating decision-making cycles and making them even more effective
Esri Ireland has teamed up with DBFL Consulting Engineers for a new project to help remove barriers to public transport use
DBFL will be able to view, analyze, and share geospatial data and maps across transportation and civil engineering projects with Esri’s ArcGIS technology
Among its uses are the visualization of the proportion of people using private, public, and active transport for work trips in Co Wicklow, and route, transport, and site audits in the field
Pix4D introduces OPF, a fully open and free specification enabling the storage and exchange of photogrammetric data among different parties and software products
OPF also stores all the data including inputs and outputs of the photogrammetry process
It is expected that OPF will facilitate collaboration and sharing in photogrammetry projects, related to a reconstructed 3D model
Esri India joins hands with ideaForge, a drone manufacturing company to offer drone solutions with GIS for Indian market
The two companies signed a MoU, and the partnership is expected to boost drone adoption, especially in sectors like agriculture, forestry, mining, and utilities
The companies will cater to the drone-based requirements of governments and industries, both in terms of drone flying and GIS.
The companies said the solution will deal with the challenges of meeting training and services requirements
Mayor of Baltimore, Brandon M. Scott launched a new website for residents to track the progress of the #BuildBetterBMore city services sprint
The sprint carries out city services including repairing over 9,000 potholes, removing more than 500 graffiti markings, investigating over 1,000 illegal dumping cases
The new data StoryMap site is the result of city administration’s decision to leverage data and analytics for improvement of processes and driving impact
he new site will allow residents to track city’s progress using GIS mapping tools, working together to #BuildBetterBMore."
Esri joined a partnership to create the Chief Equity Officer Network, whose mission is to find solutions that make equity strategic and actionable by using GIS
GIS provides the unique ability to map complex problems regarding, understand the data, and take more effective action to solve them
A key partner, NACo, an organization that unites county officials to advocate for county government priorities in federal policy making also expressed expectations for using GIS to understand the community and applying the understanding to problem solutions
Nexar, the leading real-time mapping company, has achieved a 40x reduction in the cost of real-time mapping by leveraging cutting-edge technologies
Nexar reduces the costs of real-time mapping by leveraging a crowd-sourced network of camera-equipped vehicles with more than 700,000 "eyes on the road", capturing 94% of US roads each month and 3 billion miles of road vision data per year
Nexar also combines additional key innovations: edge AI processing, change detection, frame-on-demand, high-precision 3D map construction
With these innovations, Nexar's CityStream Live platform significantly reduces the need for costly data gathering, complex hardware, and manual annotation, while providing the high levels of coverage, freshness, and precision
The partnership will help support the organization’s mission of bringing together the global Engineers Without Borders movement so that millions more people can benefit from work addressing today’s most pressing challenges and accelerating progress for a sustainable and equitable future for all
This includes five years of core funding and executive insights, fundamentally strengthening the capacity of Engineers Without Borders International to drive more collaboration and cooperation within the movement, deliver better results and unlock its global impact
Cupix announced the addition of its leading product, CupixWorks, to Bentley Systems’ powered by iTwin program
By leveraging the Bentley iTwin Platform, CupixWorks can synchronize and visualize 3D, 360° capture data — along with BIM models plus customized data — and use georeferencing to place the capture in the site’s physical location
The addition marks another step in Cupix’s efforts to democratize 3D digital twin adoption across the built-world industry
Bentley Systems vice president of engineering collaboration recently spoke about the metaverse and its potential uses for infrastructure design at NVIDIA’s GTC developer conference
The vice president said that while the metaverse is still a work in progress, the standards needed for deploying it in infrastructure projects are already emerging
For instance, 3D, geospatially located immersive models updated in real time are all requirements for a metaverse digital twin workflow