The Asia Pacific region is a primary driver of global urban development trends and is where some of the world’s the most ambitious attempts to direct those trends to national development goals. Increasingly, smart city […]
McKinsey&Company has published interesting interviews with mayors of U.S. cities on how open data not only makes for more transparent government, but also improves the effectiveness and efficiency of services. Pete Buttigieg, Mayor of South […]
DigitalGlobe, one of the first companies to offer commercial high-resolution earth observation imagery from several satellites (Quickbird, Worldview-1, Worldview-2, and GeoEye), has acquired Spatial Energy, which provides digital imagery and related services to the energy […]
A release of 28 Planet Labs CubeSats known as Flock 1 from the International Space Station (ISS) has been completed. The deployments began Feb. 11. The CubeSats, each about the size of a loaf of […]
At this year’s Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) BIM National Conference 2014, Peter Trebilcock of Balfour Beatty gave an overview of Balfour Beatty’s extensive BIM experience. Balfour Beatty has 56 live BIM projects across […]
According to the Wall Street Journal a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Judge ruled that the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) ban on flying drones (UAVs) is not legally binding. The ruling follows a lawsuit in […]
According to Bloomberg AES Corp has begun selling utility-scale battery systems that can scale up to half a gigawatt (GW). The Advancion systems cost from $10 million to $500 million, depending on size, and will […]
At the NRECA TechAdvantage conference Dr. Comfort Manyame, GIS Manager at Mid-South Synergy Electric Coop, gave a very interesting presentation demonstrating how freely available geospatial data can be applied to proactively to reduce outages. Mid-South […]