A highly accurate, 3D model is to support restoration work at the world's fourth largest church Duomo di Milano or Milan Cathedral in Italy. Millions of laser-scanned measurements were combined...

The Institute of Navigation's 2011 International Technical Meeting (ITM) program and registration are available online. This year's plenary session, Robotics Navigation, will feature keynote addresses on Bird-size Long Endurance UAV;...

The second Innovative Lidar Solutions Conference (ILSC) will be held in Toronto, Canada, from 31st May to 3rd June 2011. An initial call for presentations has been issued. ILSC 2011...

Diamond Aircraft CEO Christian Dries announced that Dr. Gerd Berchtold has joined the Diamond Group as part of an internal company reorganisation to better position the company for the future....

In September I attended ‘From Imagery to Map', a conference organised by Racurs. Founded in 1993 by four research graduates from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, this Russian company...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles come in different forms (fixed-wing, copter, hybrid) and for many purposes and require different skills. Re-usable aircraft flown without onboard human crew have been in existence since 1916, the bulk of applications concerning reconnaissance and other military missions too shady, dirty or dodgy for human...

The idea for designing an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) originated from a doctoral dissertation in aerodynamics by the company’s CTO, Peter Cosyn. Maarten Van Speybroeck, operations director, was involved with...

iXSea has unveiled QUADRANS at this year’s ASPRS Annual Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. According to iXSea, QUADRANS is the most complete all-in-one, high-grade inertial navigation system for airborne and land...

Optech has presented its new medium-format ortho-camera, the CS-8900, providing high-definition mapping with the clarity of Optech’s patented Forward Motion Compensation (FMC). Standard features include: patented field-replaceable shutter system; field-interchangeable...

KOREC, UK, is to become the sole UK and Irish distributor of SenseFLY’s unmanned flying camera, the swinglet CAM made by the Swiss company, SenseFLY. The swinglet CAM is a...