Monday, March 6th, 2017
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that it has acquired the forestry business of Savcor Oy, a global supplier of forestry solutions for performance optimization and enterprise management. Trimble has also acquired Silvadata, a provider of cloud-based data, collaboration and workflow automation services to small- and medium-sized forestry companies. The acquisitions expand Trimble’s
Monday, March 6th, 2017
Toulouse – Airbus broadens the range of sensors used in its agricultural services, Farmstar and Fodder Production Index, with the Sentinel 2A and Sentinel 3A satellites of the European Copernicus programme. This improves the level of availability and enhances the quality of both services, with farmers reaping the benefits. Farmstar, launched fifteen years ago, is
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
EagleView, the leading technology provider of aerial imagery, data analytics and GIS solutions, is pleased to announce that their patented Pictometry imagery now integrates with ArcGIS Pro, Esri’s desktop application. Pictometry for ArcGIS Pro is an add-in application that allows customers to access their licensed Pictometry imagery with their go-to, everyday desktop GIS application. The
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Tthe Fodder Production Index for monitoring grass production is already being used by most of the insurance companies. Developed by Airbus based on its long experience in the agricultural sector it allows estimation and compensation, if applicable, without a site visit by an expert. The Index derived from satellite images, approved by the French Ministry
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Herndon, Virginia —The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) opened registration and housing for its GEOINT 2017 Symposium, taking place June 4-7 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. The GEOINT Symposium, hosted annually by USGIF, gathers the defense, intelligence, and homeland security communities and other users and producers of geospatial information
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Las Vegas, NV — March 7-11 – Juniper Systems will be exhibiting its rugged handhelds and sub-meter GPS receivers at the CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada in booth number B92228. On display will be the new Mesa 2 Rugged Tablet, CT5 Rugged Smartphone, CT7G Rugged Tablet, and Geode Real-time Sub-meter GPS Receiver, among other
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, announced today that it has signed an enterprise agreement with Harris Corporation. Also, Harris Corporation has become an Esri Platinum Tier partner. The agreement and partnership afford the corporation access to all Esri software and top-level benefits of the Esri Partner Network throughout the Harris Space and Intelligence
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
MELBOURNE, Fla. -Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) experts from throughout Florida gathered this week to explore trends in drone adoption and ways to help guide the impact of UAS integration across the state. UAS operators and industry leaders from business, government and academia engaged in the “Florida UAS Summit” hosted by Harris Corporation and Florida Institute
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — Mapbox, the leading real-time location and mapping platform for developers, today announced Roy Ng ( photo) has been appointed President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). As President and COO, Ng will have responsibility for all customer facing operations, including sales, marketing, customer success, and business development, as well as finance, human resources,
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
JOHNSTOWN, PA – The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ( NGA) has awarded Concurrent Technologies Corporation ( CTC) a competitively bid prime $498,000 contract to research artificial intelligence (AI) automation capabilities under the agency’s Boosting Innovative GEOINT (BIG) program. Under this contract, Concurrent Technologies Corporation will further advance the state of knowledge in virtual assistants by evolving
