If GPS goes down, could aircraft navigate by comparing what they sense around them to detailed three-dimensional maps? A major satellite imagery company believes so. Maxar’s nascent Pinpoint tool will ...

Mapbox, a maps and location platform, has released new platform updates to enhance user’s 3D mapping experience by adding powerful dynamic lighting capabilities and landmark 3D buildings. The new ...

Traditional visual SLAM algorithms, which build maps based on sparse reconstruction, can hardly meet the demands for autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance in outdoor environment. Therefore, we ...

ST. LOUIS — A technology gap in the autonomous vehicle industry today is access to highly accurate 3D maps of the Earth so vehicles can identify objects and safely navigate in unfamiliar terrain.