New York UAS Test Site Selected for FAA UTM Field Test Project FAA UTM Field Test project will test new capabilities and proposed standards that support complex, high-volume drone flights throughout diverse environments. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded a task order contract to the New York UAS Test Site (NYUASTS) for the next uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS or […]
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NUAIR Hosts ASTM International Meeting at NY UAS Test Site Annual ASTM International meeting brings together international leaders in the uncrewed systems industry to collaborate and develop UAS standards. (ROME, NEW YORK) – NUAIR will host the June meeting of ASTM International’s unmanned aircraft committee (F38) at the New York UAS Test Site in Rome, NY, June 1 through June 3. The meeting will […]
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3D PluraView – stereoscopic desktop monitors for military use – shielded and zoned according to NATO standards Today, armed forces worldwide use digital, 3D stereoscopic monitors for visual interpretation tasks. Stereoscopic image analysis is a key technology, as it provides access to image content that can be interpreted much better than monoscopic, single-image coverage from the same source and resolution. […]
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Innoviz Selected to Participate in LiDAR Sensor Standards Consortium OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers begin project to establish standardization for LiDAR testing, ensuring safe autonomous vehicles TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Innoviz Technologies (Nasdaq: INVZ), a leading provider of high-performance, solid-state LiDAR sensors and perception software, today announced that it was selected to participate in a consortium working to develop a standard […]
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3D PluraView – stereoscopic desktop monitors for military use – shielded and zoned according to NATO standards Today, armed forces worldwide use digital, 3D stereoscopic monitors for visual interpretation tasks. Stereoscopic image analysis is a key technology, as it provides access to image content that can be interpreted much better than monoscopic, single-image coverage from the same source and resolution. […]
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Invitation to Participate in the November 2021 Geospatial API Virtual Code Sprint The next OGC Code Sprint will focus on developing and testing implementations of the joint OGC API – Features / ISO 19168-1:2020 Geospatial API for features Standards 29 November 2021: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO / TC 211 invite software developers to the November 2021 Geospatial […]
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US Army Geospatial Center Upgrades OGC Membership to Advance Open Systems AGC’s new level of OGC membership supports advancing standards for cross-system interoperability and geospatial information sharing. Contact: info@ogc.org 12 April 2021: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to announce that the US Army Geospatial Center (AGC) has raised its membership in OGC to Principal level. As a Principal Member […]
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Trimble Joins Strategic Advisory Council London, U.K. – 8 March, 2021 – buildingSMART International announced today that Trimble has joined the Strategic Advisory Council (SAC). As an existing member of buildingSMART International, Trimble’s intention to move to the SAC signals commitment to open data standards by enabling a strategic input into the buildingSMART community. buildingSMART’s SAC is a group of members who […]
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OGC and buildingSMART International publish discussion paper on the integration of BIM and GIS New discussion paper aims to coordinate the development of data standards produced by the two leading standards organizations in the fields of Geospatial and Building Information Modeling Contact: info@ogc.org 9 April 2020: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and buildingSMART International (bSI) have released an industry-defining paper as […]
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Happy Anniversary USIBD! Congratulations to John Russo and all of the volunteers that over the years have invested their time in developing this important building documentation organization. Please consider lending your support. The U.S. Institute of Building Documentation was launched on this date, March 12th, in 2012. In these eight years USIBD has become the primary resource of Building Documentation […]
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Shane MacLaughlin, Managing Director at Atlas Computers in Ireland provides an in-depth look into the need for open standards. Topographic Survey Specification for Urban Projects Some years ago I chaired a working group hosted by Dublin City Council tasked with developing a robust specification for urban topographic survey projects. This working group came into being at the behest of the […]
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Driving simulation could be new market for mobile laser scanned data, but it has to be in the standard format. Global Highway Mapping Standard In a recent conversation with Stuart Woods, Vice President at Leica Geosystems we discussed a number of important information resources relating to the use of simulation in order to support the research, testing and development of […]
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OGC seeks public comment on candidate InfraGML encoding standards FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: info@opengeospatial.org 17 January 2017: The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on its candidate InfraGML standards. The candidate OGC InfraGML Encoding standards define the implementation-dependent, GML encoding of concepts supporting land and civil engineering infrastructure facilities. InfraGML is a GML implementation of the OGC […]
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