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NEWS & EMERGING TECHNOLOGY SENSEFLY DRONES HELP MONITOR LAKE WINNIPEG ICE HAZARDS senseFly fixed-wing drones have been used to track and monitor the formation of lakeice hazards on Lake Winnipeg by NextGenEnvironment Research, aCanadian company based in Winnipeg.The project, conductedaspartofthe Canadian SpaceAgencies Earth Observation Applications Development Program (EODAP), aimed to identify and monitor the levels of lakeice and detectcracks and pressureridges to raise awarenessamong local communities and first responders about the risks of lakeice travel. With studies projecting areduction in lakeice mass overthe coming SCHNEIDER DIGITAL’S 3D PLURAVIEW years,ice safetyisbecomingacritical STEREO MONITOR consideration formanypopulations Thereisanincreasing demand forimproved,high-qualitystereovisualization solutions who use the lakes to travelfor in the growing professional 3D /VRmarket. The3DPluraViewfromSchneider Digital is commercial and leisureactivities. the passive3D-stereo system with thehighest user satisfaction and acceptance of all Theonset of melting ice –which 3D displaysystems currently on the market. Launched in 2016, the PluraViewmonitors begins in spring –isacritical time have quickly established themselves as the 3D stereo reference with up to 4K resolution, formonitoring ice,asitcan result 10-bit color and screen diagonals up to 28”.The PluraView3D-stereo monitor is ideal for inpressureridges,leads and cracks all stereo softwareapplications, covering awide range of industries: GIS, mapping, appearing and expose open water. photogrammetry, oil &gas prospecting,molecular research anddesign, CGI/3Dvideo www.sensefly.com editing,CAD &mechanical engineering,crystallography/biochemistry, laser scanning and industrial measuring,simulation&VR training,3Dcitymodel visualization, archaeology, ESRI ACQUIRES NFRAMES but also Computer Tomography(CT)and Magnetic ResonanceImaging forsurgical TO ENHANCE ITS 3D planning and medical training. www.3d-pluraview.com CAPABILITIES Esri, the global provider of location intelligence,announced the acquisition of nFrames,atechnology companythatdevelops SURE, GMV ANNOUNCES THE MERGER OF ITS UK an imageryand lidar 3D surface COMPANY AND NSL reconstruction software. This will GMV Innovating Solutions Limited,the UK enable the fusion of imagery with aerospace companybelonging to the Spanish 3D GIS,allowing nFrames and Esri technology multinational GMV,has signed a users to seamlessly captureand merger agreement with Nottingham Scientific analyse 3D data from aerial,drone, Limited (NSL). GMV trades in the aerospace, and ground-based sensors in an defence,ICT andintelligent-transportation- automated end-to-end process.SURE systems markets while NSL is UK leader in satellite scales 3D data creation to large city navigation and critical applications.After the and countrywide airborne image agreement GMV becomes sole shareholder of datasets and projects while giving NSL and sets up the companyGMV NSL, to be professional photogrammetry integrated seamlessly intoGMV’s set of companies. workflows improved precision, speed, Back in 2013, as partofits international expansion, and simplicityonpremises or in the GMV rolled out abusiness development strategy cloud.Through this acquisition, Esri in the UK.This involved setting up anew company, gains arobust production engine that which came on stream in late2014 to join the suite transforms imageryand lidar data of companies and offices in Spain, USA, Germany, intopoint clouds,photo-textured 3D France,Poland,Portugal,Romania, TheNetherlands, meshes,and true orthos. Malaysia and Colombia. www.gmv.com www.esri.com 6 November/December 2020 | GeoConnexion International Magazine NEWS & EMERGING TECHNOLOGY FIRST HIGH-RESOLUTION, HOMOGENEOUS SPACE FLIGHT LABORATORY ANNOUNCES DIGITAL SURFACE MODEL (DSM) FOR LAUNCH OF ATMOSPHERIC MONITORING AND GERMANY EARTH OBSERVATION MICROSATELLITES Hexagon’s Geosystems division announced that it has been Space Flight Laboratory(SFL), adeveloper of 52 distinct awarded acontractbythe German Federal Agencyfor microspace missions,announced the successful launch Cartographyand Geodesy (BKG) to provide ahomogeneous, and deployment of the GHGSat-C1greenhouse gas comprehensivedigital surface model (DSM) forGermany.The monitoring microsatellite and the Slovenian NEMO-HD data is provided via the HxGN Content Program,alicensed, Earth observation microsatellite.SFL developed the small high-qualitygeospatial data service from Hexagon. Theprogram satellites at its facilityinToronto. Both satellites were in contact was launched in 2014 and is currently availableinEurope and with groundcontrol within hours of their launch on September North America. TheBKG has data sets with general height 2, 2020, aboardanArianespace Vega rocket from the Guiana information of the Earth’s surface across its entirefederal Space Center in French Guiana, South America. Thesatellites are territory. However, these can varyfromstatetostatebecause healthyand operating as planned.Established at the University theyare generated from different source data. An up-to-date, of Toronto Institutefor AerospaceStudies (UTIAS) in 1998, homogeneous and high-resolution DSM is required by SFL has developed CubeSats,nanosatellites,and microsatellites organizations operating across stateborders,such as the Federal that have achievedmorethan 126 cumulativeyears of operation Agencyfor Technical Relief (THW), the German Air TrafficControl, in orbit. These microspace missions have included SFL’s trusted the German Armed Forces Geoinformation Centreand the attitudetude control and, Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance. in someome cases, www.hexagon.com formmation-flying capabilitiespabilities. Otherher core SFL-d-deevveelopedloped componentsmponents includeude modulardular (scalable)alable) powewerrssystystems, onboarboardradios, flighthtccomputomputers, andd control software. wwwww..utias-sutias-sfl.ne.nett PIX4D ANNOUNCES PIX4DMATIC TELEDYNE DALSA RELEASES POWERFUL SUITE OF IMAGE Pix4Dmatic has been created to suit an evolving demand as professionals map bigger PROCESSING AND ARTIFICIAL and bigger areas around the world. Projectsthat would have previously been mapped INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE by aircraftare nowbeing surveyedwith drones.With Pix4Dmatic,these expertprojects Teledyne DALSA, aTeledyne aremade possible and easier.Drone flights beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS), Technologies companyand global when permitted by law, areoften considered the next frontier of drone mapping. provider of machine vision, announced Pix4Dmatic nowoffers supportalso forthe large datasets resultingfrommultiple flights SaperaTM Vision SoftwareEdition 2020- by easily processing over 10,000 images without compromising the results’accuracy. 09 is nowavailable.The latest Sapera This softwarewill potentially open the door to anew era of drone mapping. Digital Vision Softwaresuiteincludes Sapera photogrammetry has become an essential part of everymodernsurveyors’toolkit and Processing and the new Astrocyte has inspired hundreds of newdrone mapping businesses around the world. Pix4Dmatic is graphical application forartificial nowunlocking another scale in digital photogrammetrybymaking the processing faster intelligence (AI). Thesoftwaresuite and the experience moreintuitive. www.pix4d.com offers field-proven image processing and artificialintelligence functions to design, develop and deployhigh-performance machine vision applications.This latest version of Sapera Vision Software includes AstrocyteTM1.0, anew AI- based graphical application dedicated to training neural networkson2Dimages forawide range of applications.Through its highly flexible graphical user interface, users can train neural networksto perform classification, objectdetection, segmentation and noise reduction on existing images.Astrocytecan then exportmodels to Sapera Processing for integration intoafinal application. www.teledynedalsa.com www.geoconnexion.com 7 NEWS & EMERGING TECHNOLOGY CREAFORM ANNOUNCES NEW AND COMPLETE R-SERIES SUITE OF AUTOMATED DIMENSIONAL QUALITY CONTROL SOLUTIONS Creaform, aworldwide provider 3D measurement solutions,announced the latest release in its R-Series lineup, including the new MetraSCAN-R BLACK|Elite as well as the addition of four different models in the CUBE-R 3D scanning measuring machine. Creaform also launched the brand-new VXscan-R digital twin environmentsoftware module,which completes the company’s turnkey automated qualitycontrol solution suite. www.creaform3d.com CGG GEOSOFTWARE IXBLUE BUILDS CAPACITY FOR SIMULTANEOUS LAUNCHES INTERACTIVE WELL PATH PLANNING OPERATIONS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE TASMAN TECHNOLOGY iXblue announced the awardoftwo significant hydrographic charting projects this CGGGeoSoftwarehas launched month. Theprojectswereawarded by the Australian GovernmentDepartmentof WellPath, anew interactive3Dwell Defenceand Land Information NewZealand (LINZ) under their respectiveannual path planning solution foroptimal survey and charting programs.Despitethe challenges posed by the COVID19 pandemic well planning in unconventional this year,iXblue will be exercising newin-house capabilities to undertakeboth major and fractured reservoirs and offshore projects simultaneously.The LINZ project, partofiXblue’s programonthe Hydrographic development platforms,aspartof Suppliers Panel, will see nearly 2,000 linear nautical miles of high resolution bathymetry its InsightEarth 3D visualization data collected in coastal waters off the Coromandel Peninsula – a highly trafficked and