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Tuesday, September 12th, 2017

Mapmaker AND Announces Collaboration and Aims to Redefine Map Making & Fundamentally Change the Mapping Industry

Capelle aan den IJssel, the Netherlands – AND is happy to announce a collaboration with Continental, a leading first tier automotive supplier, to enrich map and location data with sensor data collected from vehicles. During the IAA Cars 2017, AND and Continental will present how their Map Fusion and eHorizon Map Service leverage the complementary

Tuesday, September 12th, 2017

Hazard and Evacuation Map Now Available for Hurricane Irma Affected Areas

WASHINGTON – Mapbox has published a new map to give residents and officials in Florida the most up-to-date information on the areas with the highest risk of hazardous materials in flood waters. The most up-to-date map can be found here and includes a list of shelters, power plants, chemical plants, solid waste facilities, evacuation routes and

Tuesday, September 12th, 2017

Map of the Month: Purchasing Power for Home Improvement Products, Germany 2017

Retailers and manufacturers face the continual challenge of positioning their products in the market regions where they are most wanted. Our 2017 data on retail purchasing power illuminates the areas of Germany with the highest spending potential for various product lines. As an example, our map of the month shows the hotspots for home improvement

Tuesday, September 12th, 2017

NASA Awards SSL Next Phase Funding for Dragonfly On-Orbit Assembly Program, Demonstrates Confidence in Public Private Partnership for Space Robotics

Palo Alto, CA. – SSL, a leading provider of innovative satellites and spacecraft systems, today announced that NASA has awarded the next phase of funding for its ground-breaking Dragonfly on-orbit satellite assembly program. The contract modification to move forward with the detailed design of a semi-autonomous robotic system for in-space satellite assembly confirms NASA’s confidence

Tuesday, September 12th, 2017

GEO Business 2018: Over 75% of Space Already Booked for UK’s Largest Geospatial Event

GEO Business – the UK’s largest geospatial exhibition and conference, is well on track for another successful edition next year, when it returns to the Business Design Centre, in London, on 22-23 May 2018. Since its record-breaking 2017 event, just over three months ago, which welcomed 2,386 geomatics and geospatial professionals from around the world,

Tuesday, September 12th, 2017

MDA Celebrates Historic Space Robotic Milestone on Mars Rover Curiosity

Brampton, ON – MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX:MDA), a global communications and information company, celebrates a milestone achievement of the successful operation of the MDA-built Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS), a scientific instrument carried on the Mars rover Curiosity. Developed with principle investigator Dr. Ralf Gellert of the University of

Tuesday, September 12th, 2017

Brainnwave Makes Data Available to Support Disaster Relief

Edinburgh, September 2017- start-up Brainnwave believe that people make better decisions if they have quick and simple access to the data they need, at the time they need it. With the catastrophic events of recent natural disasters, the Brainnwave team decided to down tools and see what they could do to help. Hurricane Harvey in Houston,

Monday, September 11th, 2017

Darkness Blooms off Brazil

In early September 2017, ocean scientists noticed something swirling in the waters off the coast of the Brazilian state of São Paulo. The sinuous threads of darkness amid the blue Atlantic Ocean were not caused by oil; they were the result of a phytoplankton bloom. The dark colors are probably high concentrations of dinoflagellates, according

Monday, September 11th, 2017

Airborne Mapping System from 3D Laser Mapping Takes Off

3D Laser Mapping, the industry leader in geospatial technology, is helping survey teams to cover more ground in a shorter space of time with a new aerial mapping system. The ROBIN +WINGS Airborne LiDAR system is an extension of the market leading ROBIN mobile mapping unit which allows survey teams to mount the system to

Monday, September 11th, 2017

CoreLogic Analysis Shows an Estimated 8.5 Million Properties in Florida at Significant Risk of Potential Wind Damage from Hurricane Irma

IRVINE, Calif.- CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today released data analysis which shows that an estimated 8,456,455 residential and commercial properties in Florida are at either “Extreme,” “Very High” or “High” risk of wind damage from Hurricane Irma. CoreLogic storm surge analysis shows that an estimated 3,494,735