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The following is a guest post by Philippe Simard, Ph.D., President of SimActive, Inc. Global Trends in the Mapping Industry during the Pandemic The pandemic has brough uncertainties to all businesses and the mapping industry has been no exception. Slowdowns were observed during the first few months of 2020 as …

Canada’s SimActive and Dawson Geophysical demonstrate the use of drones with mapping and modeling software for oil and gas seismic exploration. Knowing where to drill is a million dollar question for the oil and gas industry.  Seismic exploration is one way that the energy industry can determine where commercially viable …

Montreal, Canada, June 9th, 2020 – SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, announces the release of Correlator3D version 8.5. The new version allows users to share and visualize projects in the cloud. It also features new tools for the calibration and processing of multispectral imagery. Specifically, results can …

Drone Mapping of UNESCO Archaeological Site: From Simactive Drones mapping of UNESCO Archaeological sites are helping to gather the necessary data to help prepare orthophoto maps and digital elevation models of valuable areas. The drone mapping company SimActive recently announced that it is involved in the mapping of a UNESCO …

In a recent press release,  SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, announces that their Correlator3D™ product is being used by Dutch company NEO B.V. to assess solar potential in multiple cities.  Digital surface models (DSMs) are generated from WorldView and GeoEye satellite stereo images and serve to calculate …

  image courtesy SimActive Philippe Simard, of Canada’s SimActive mapping software, started out working directly with large mapping companies – or the military.  With the growth of the drone industry, however, things have changed. “We used to only work with very highly qualified firms investing millions of dollars in planes – …

From Simactive Canadian mapping software company SimActive has added additional capacity to be able to automatically assess multiple volumes of material (aggregates and other material) for projects and to report based upon the findings. If the same area is being flown, users can then compare the volumes and access differences …

SimActive Further Accelerates Processing with New Version 8.4 Montreal, Canada, January 14th, 2020 – SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, announces the release of Correlator3D™ version 8.4 with significant accelerations.  The new version leads to speeds that are multiple times faster compared to previous releases. Correlator3D™ 8.4 allows …

SimActive has just announced some additional functionality removes some of the manual processes currently needed to process softificated imagery.  From their press release below: “Removing the need to manually tag GCPs facilitates the integration of LiDAR data with imagery”, said Dr Philippe Simard, President of SimActive. “Our clients can benefit …

It’s a truism that data is king in the drone industry.  Getting good quality, actionable drone data without being an expert in image processing and photogrammetry – the science of accurate measurement from images – is a challenge for many companies. Now, Canadian data processing provider SimActive is offering full …