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in C4ISR News, News
Army Corps of Engineers Selects Continental Mapping to Support St. Louis District Operations
Madison, Wisconsin-based small business Continental Mapping has secured a five-year, $12.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to support mapping operations in the St. Louis district. The geospatial data development company said Thursday the district acts as USACE’s technical center of expertise in photogrammetric mapping and has a wide mapping jurisdiction both within and outside the continental […] More
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Milrem, Leica Geosystems Debut Unmanned Mobile Mapping Vehicle Platform
Milrem and Leica Geosystems have launched an unmanned ground vehicle offering the companies jointly developed for off-road surveying, monitoring and security operations. The Pegasus:Multiscope vehicle combines Milrem’s Multiscope UGV platform and Leica Geosystems’ Pegasus:Two mobile mapping sensor technology, Milrem said Monday. The UGV is built to help industry customers automate processes in order to avoid physical risks in surveying complex […] More
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in Industry News, News
MarketsandMarkets: Global Drones Market to Attain 32% CAGR by 2020
A new MarketsandMarkets research report predicts the global drones market will achieve a compound annual growth rate of 32.22 percent from 2015 through 2020, buoyed by regulatory relaxations on unmanned aerial vehicles. MarketsandMarkets said Monday the report foresees a $5.59 billion industry in five years, up from $663.4 million in 2014. The report indicates that huge demand for […] More
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in C4ISR News, Featured, General, News
Shane Imwalle: Woolpert Eyes Drone Survey Expansion Beyond Ohio
Shane Imwalle, a senior vice president at Woolpert, sees further opportunities for the company in unmanned aircraft systems after the Federal Aviation Administration certified Woolpert to fly drones on surveying missions in Ohio, the Dayton Business Journal reported Thursday. Imwalle told the newspaper the company plans to add UAS piloting and data analysis jobs as Woolpert seeks to leverage its […] More
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FAA Approves Texas A&M Corpus Christi UAS to Survey Campus; Kathryn Funk-Baxter Comments
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi will use its unmanned aircraft system platform to map both main campus and Momentum campus infrastructure after receiving approval from the Federal Aviation Administration. The “Island University” said Friday that its geographic information science and geospatial surveying engineering students have helped with projects in areas such as utility mapping and boundary delineation. “Each aerial flight […] More