Thursday, November 9th, 2017
MELBOURNE, Fla. – Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has completed development of the company’s fully digital Mission Data Unit (MDU), which is at the heart of its navigation payload for Lockheed Martin’s GPS III satellites 11 and beyond. The current Harris payload for GPS III space vehicles (SVs) 1-10 includes a greater than three times reduction
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
Appleton, WI-USA – American Digital Cartography, Inc., a leader in providing comprehensive, current, and seamless geographic digital data for the whole Earth, is pleased to announce the release of ADC WorldMap Digital Atlas v7.4. The latest release includes two new layers: World Administrative 3 Boundaries and Great Lake Bathymetry. The new Level 3 Admin layer
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
Montreal, QC and Calgary, AB, Canada – Esterline CMC Electronics and NovAtel Inc. (NovAtel) are pleased to announce a new strategic partnership, extending their collaboration in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning technology that started in the late 1990s. The partnership will see NovAtel’s industry-leading GNSS measurement technology integrated into a new Esterline CMC-designed multi-constellation,
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
NEW YORK – Sensofusion continues to set pace in the expanding UAS countermeasure market, protecting militaries, airports, prisons and private companies from rogue drones in illegal and potentially life-threatening situations. Today, Sensofusion launches AIRFENCE 5.0, the next evolution of a technology that makes environments safer. The newest platform boasts pioneering functionalities that advance what is possible
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
RESTON, Va. – Ardent Management Consulting (ArdentMC) has announced today that they have launched a drone initiative to offer free aid in wildfire ravaged areas of Northern California. The two-week initiative will aid in damage assessment in Napa through the use of GIS technology. Wild Fire Relief ArdentMC is dedicated to helping assess damage and restoring
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
Manassas, VA, November 8, 2017 – Boeing completed the acquisition of Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a world-class innovator, developer and manufacturer of advanced aerospace platforms and autonomous systems. Aurora will operate under Boeing Engineering, Test & Technology as a subsidiary called Aurora Flight Sciences, A Boeing Company. It will retain an independent operating
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
MINNEAPOLIS – Sentera announced today availability of gimbaled Double 4k and Quad sensors for the popular DJI Inspire 2 drone. Sentera’s swappable precision crop health sensors paired with the Inspire 2 offers agronomists, crop consultants, and growers an economical way to capture diverse vegetation indices such as normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) or normalized difference
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
IRVINE, Calif.-Digital Map Products, Inc. (“DMP”), a pioneer in geospatial mapping technology and intelligence, announces it has acquired Mexico Business Directory (“MBD”). Founded in 1995, MBD is the largest fully geocoded information database for business locations in Mexico, with approximately 1.6 million records. The acquisition is in-line with DMP’s strategy to significantly expand its global
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
Europe’s National Mapping, Cadastre and Land Registry Authorities have elected representatives from Ireland and Spain to the Management Board of their membership Association, EuroGeographics. Colin Bray, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Survey Officer, Ordnance Survey Ireland and Amalia Velasco Martín-Varés, International Affairs Coordinator, Spanish Directorate General for Cadastre will help to shape its strategic direction
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
Tallinn, Estonia – FFSCat – providing complementary data to the Sentinel fleet –wins the 2017 Copernicus Masters, the international competition on innovative solutions for business and society based on Earth observation (EO) data. Small satellites are a cost-effective way to test new EO concepts. FSSCat is a future-oriented satellite mission, consisting of two federated 6U
