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Tile Massive 3D Data on Cesium ion Directly from AWS S3
Starting today, you can use Cesium ion to tile data directly from your Amazon S3 storage. If your data is already on S3, this allows you to skip the upload step so you can have a completely cloud-based 3D geospatial workflow. For example, let’s say you have an automated pipeline...
Read moreChris Tucker, Geospatial and National Security Expert, Joins Cesium as an Adviser
I’m thrilled to share that Chris Tucker has joined Cesium’s advisory board. It would be hard to work in the geospatial or national security space for any length of time and not know Chris. He was the founding Chief Strategic Officer of In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital fund. He is...
Read moreWe’re excited to announce that the latest version of WebODM (OpenDroneMap) now ships with support for 3D tiling with Cesium ion. WebODM allows users to generate point clouds, 3D models, and terrain from aerial images. With this new Cesium ion integration, users can also fuse the data they’ve collected with...
Read moreCesium Release Roundup August 2019
This month brought huge changes for Cesium! We’ve closed on funding and spun out from our parent company, Analytical Graphics Inc., allowing us to accelerate our growth and further develop the tools to unlock the potential of 3D data. As we build our platform and grow our team, we hope...
Read moreJean Paoli, Docugami's CEO and Former President of Microsoft Open Technologies, Joins Cesium as an Adviser
I’m happy to announce that Jean Paoli has joined the Cesium advisory board. I met Jean through his leadership at Microsoft, where he led Microsoft’s strategic shift to embrace and love open source. Jean played a key role in Microsoft’s adoption of glTF, the open-standard 3D format which I co-created...
Read moreCesium at SIGGRAPH 2019
SIGGRAPH is next week! This year’s computer graphics conference is July 28–August 1 in Los Angeles. We love catching the latest graphics techniques at SIGGRAPH every year and bringing back more ideas to enhance Cesium. We especially love meeting the larger community in real life! This year Omar Shehata and...
Read moreBonnie Bogle, Mapbox Co-Founder, Joins Cesium as COO
I am thrilled to welcome Bonnie Bogle as Cesium’s Chief Operating Officer. She’ll be leading operations as our new company enters the next growth phase. Bonnie has deep experience with startups and the geospatial industry and has lived through the fast growth that we’re anticipating at Cesium. She helped start...
Read moreWe’re excited to share a very interesting project being made with Cesium: the National Digital Twin of Australia being built by our friends at Data61. Data61, the creator of TerriaJS, was an early adopter of Cesium and of 3D Tiles. Their NationalMap, built in collaboration with Australian government agencies nearly...
Read moreFormer NGA Director Robert Cardillo Joins Cesium's Advisory Board
I’m thrilled that Robert Cardillo, friend and former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), has joined Cesium’s advisory board. I’ve known Robert for 15 years, first meeting him at a GEOINT ground station where he assured the nation was getting the geospatial information needed to maintain peace and security...
Read moreTeamwork ❤: Partnering with Spatial Networks and Vricon
We’ve officially teamed up with our friends at Spatial Networks and again with Vricon to visualize massive amounts of high-fidelity data in context - in some of the least accessible places of the world. Spatial Networks has granular, street-level data collected from on the ground surveys around the world -...
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