Wednesday, December 7th, 2016
A glacier near Lake Aru in western Tibet collapsed on 17 July 2016. Now the Journal of Glaciology publishes the first scientific account of this cryospheric disaster in which nine local yak herders were killed. Eyewitnesses reported that the episode lasted only four to five minutes. More than 70 million cubic metres of ice tumbled
Wednesday, December 7th, 2016
Fugro’s LADS technology is being deployed in New Zealand to assist in relief efforts following the damaging 7.9 magnitude earthquake near Christchurch on 14th November 2016. At the request of the New Zealand Government, the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Laser Airborne Depth Sounder (LADS) Flight is to conduct a rapid hydrographic survey of the seafloor
Wednesday, December 7th, 2016
Dec 7, 2016 – Andover, MA- MEMSIC Inc., a leading solutions provider, combining proprietary MEMS technology with advanced mixed-signal processing and systems solutions, today announced the availability of the MMC5883MA 3 Axis Magnetic Sensor. The newest member of MEMSIC’s Anisotropic Magneto Resistive (AMR) based Magnetic Sensor family, it provides the industry’s highest accuracy, lowest noise
Tuesday, December 6th, 2016
Every northern fall and winter, cooling ocean and air temperatures cause the floating cap of Arctic sea ice to grow from its annual minimum extent toward a maximum between February and April. So far in 2016, however, the Arctic Ocean and neighboring seas have been slow to freeze, setting both daily and monthly record lows.
Tuesday, December 6th, 2016
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the OGC Coverage Implementation Schema (CIS) – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension. A referenceable grid is associated with information that allows the location of all points in the grid to be determined in a coordinate reference system (CRS), but the location of the points is not directly available from
Monday, December 5th, 2016
Supergeo is excited to announce that SuperPad 3.3, one of the most popular mobile GIS software, will soon have an upgraded version – SuperPad 10! Supported both Windows and Windows Mobile Operating System, SuperPad is the mobile GIS software designed for spatial data collection. In the 10 version, SuperPad will bring a smoother and more
Monday, December 5th, 2016
WESTMINSTER, Colo. – DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), the global leader in earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today released the first public image from the recently launched WorldView-4 satellite, showcasing a level of clarity and information content that is unique to DigitalGlobe commercial imagery. WorldView-4 features industry-leading resolution and location accuracy, which together
Monday, December 5th, 2016
AMSTERDAM – Responding to questions in Dutch media today, TomTom (TOM2) announces that within the Consumer business unit 170 roles have been reorganized. Of those roles, 110 will move to other areas within the company and 60 roles are made redundant, of which 24 are in The Netherlands. About TomTom At TomTom (TOM2) our mission
Monday, December 5th, 2016
(Pleasanton, CA) December 05, 2016—Tech companies are moving to the automotive market, because that’s where the money is. In mid-November, Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel Corporation, took the stage at the Los Angeles Auto Show to deliver his company’s first keynote address at an automotive event. The headline news in the widely anticipated speech was
Monday, December 5th, 2016
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is calling for participation in its newly established Electromagnetic Spectrum Domain Working Group (EM Spectrum DWG). This group will review requirements for an international open standard data model and derived encoding(s) for data describing electromagnetic fields in real-world environments. After reviewing requirements, the group may charter an OGC Standards Working
