In conjunction with the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and CRC for Spatial Information, RMIT University will be hosting an international summer school in the area of remote sensing technologies. Leading experts from the DLR will deliver the course. In conjunction with the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and CRC for Spatial Information, RMIT University will be […]
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Aibot X6 multicopter lands in Australia with Position Partners
Following the recent announcement of the fixed wing SIRIUS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Position Partners has extended its aerial mapping range with a complementary new rotary-blade UAV for Australia, the Aibot X6 by Aibotix. “The Aibot X6 enables detailed inspections or aerial surveys of hard-to-reach areas such as bridges, pipelines, power lines and rail tracks,” […]
GMES Masters competition winners announced
An international panel of experts selected this year's overall winner – the GMES Master – from among all the winners of the competition's various challenges. Prof Dr Volker Liebig, Director of Earth Observation Programmes at the European Space Agency (ESA), announced the Dutch company BlackShore-creative and its project Cerberus as the 2012 GMES Master […]
Aero3Dpro Australian launch: Your world in true 3D
This 3D mapping service models real world environments including high-density urban, landscapes, gardens, suburbs and infrastructure in high-fidelity 3D geometry. It offers users of mapping and CAD data unprecedented detail for modeling the real-world, and complete flexibility of viewpoint. Aero3Dpro is capturing an extremely rich environment. Not just simple 3D objects such as buildings, it […]
Aerometrex launches 3D mapping service
Adelaide firm, Aerometrex, will launch a new 3D mapping service, aero3Dpro, at the Science Exchange in Adelaide, this Thursday October 25th at 5:30pm. Aero3Dpro models entire landscapes, including high-density urban environments, parks, gardens, suburbs and infrastructure in 3D geometry. It gives all users of mapping and CAD data realistic images for modelling real-world […]
Best of the Blogs 9 October 2012
Kelso Cartography has an interesting map displaying the number of years of intensive agriculture seen in each place around the Earth. An interesting view of the way that humans have transformed the Earth during the anthropocene. The Sydney Morning Herald has a story on a Canberra amateur UAV team winning $10,000 for successfully […]
Best of the Blogs 18 September 2012
Wired has a great piece on cartographer Kate McLean’s “sensory maps”, which show how people use their different senses to navigate a city. As she explains on her website: "My research investigates smell perceptions of the city environment, depicting the findings in a variety of artistic, cartographic forms and augmenting and altering the maps […]
European LiDAR Mapping Forum releases programme
The European LiDAR Mapping Forum (ELMF), which runs from 4-5 December 2012 in Salzburg, Austria, is bringing the latest LiDAR developments to the forefront in its newly released conference programme. The ELMF12 programme will reflect LiDAR’s rapidly evolving technologies with more than 35 selected technical papers, presented by LiDAR experts from across the […]
Best of the Blogs 14 August 2012
LiDAR news has a post and video showing an autonomous, fast, nimble, constrained-environment (including flying a 2m wide plane through a 2.5m high carpark) UAV that uses only an inertial measurement unit and a laser rangefinder to navigate, and avoid obstacles, with all the processing done on-board – no GPS required. For all […]
Best of the Blogs 24 July 2012
Wired Magazine has an interesting article on a recent experiment where a UAV was commandeered by spoofing GPS signals. Just ignore the typically sensationalist Fox News report embedded in the middle. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/drone-gps-spoof/all/ Gizmag has an article that talks of a high-resolution Doppler radar that can detect the velocity of individual raindrops. That’s some serious […]
