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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

IMAO: B66 Starts Operational Phase!

B66 is an innovating camera developed in-house by the R&D department of IMAO. This XXL camera dedicated to aerial data acquisition has outstanding progress in the last months. Pierre FAROUT, CEO of IMAO is proud to announce that the final stages of radiometric and geometric calibrations have been achieved to a complete success. This adventure

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

Join Boundless at FOSS4G-NA

Washington, D.C. –  Boundless is proud to support the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial North America conference (FOSS4G-NA). This regional conference strikes a balance between outreach, advocacy and technology that is not to be missed. Boundless is an open company, built on a foundation of open source, open collaboration, open standards, and open

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

NASA, AeroVironment and SmartC2 Team for Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management Flight Demonstration

NEW ORLEANS (XPONENTIAL 2016), MAY 3, 2016 – AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a world leader in small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), today announced that the company – in partnership with SmartC2, a leading provider of flight business management systems – will team with NASA on its Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) Technology Capability Levels (TCL) 2

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

Digital Map App Popular with Outdoor Enthusiasts Surpasses 1M Downloads Mark

TORONTO, May 3, 2016 — Avenza Systems Inc., the leading developer of cartographic software—such as MAPublisher for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager geospatial tools for Adobe Photoshop— is excited to announce that its PDF Maps app recently surpassed the one million downloads milestone. The market-leading consumer and enterprise mobile map app is free to download

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

UrtheCast Reports Major Milestone Achieved in Proving its Revolutionary Dual-Frequency SAR Technology

Vancouver, May 3, 2016 — UrtheCast Corp. (TSX:UR) (“UrtheCast” or the “Company”) today announces that it has successfully completed prototype hardware testing of the principal core enabling elements of our ground-breaking Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology. This includes the digital sensor electronics, which is the “heart” of the SAR instrument, and the dual-frequency, multi-aperture SAR antenna in

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

NASA Welcomes New Director for its Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the selection of Michael Watkins as the new director of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. “President Thomas Rosenbaum and his leadership team at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have made an outstanding choice in naming Dr. Michael M. Watkins

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

Ready to Build the Biomass Forest Mission

ESA and Airbus Defence and Space UK signed a €229 million contract on 29 April to build the next Earth Explorer: the Biomass satellite, due to begin its mission in 2021. The satellite will provide global maps of how much carbon is stored in the world’s forests and how this stock is changing over time,

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

Leica Captivate Experience Continues with Self-Learning GNSS, Dynamic Lock for MultiStations

Heerbrugg, Switzerland, 3 May 2016 – Leica Geosystems, industry leader of measurement technology, announced today the Leica Viva GS16 and updated Leica Captivate and SmartWorx Viva software. The GS16 is a truly self-learning GNSS receiver, able to automatically select the optimal combination of GNSS signals and stay connected with or without reference links. This new

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

New Understanding of Digital Earth Comes to Russia

An international exhibition and scientific Congress in Siberia, Russia was organized, standing as an international platform for presenting significant scientific outlook and for academic exchange in the domain of geospatial information for 12 years. On 20-22 April, this activity Interexpo GEO-Siberia-2016, was held in Novosibirsk, aiming to foster discussions among policymakers and researchers about the

Monday, May 2nd, 2016

With Velodyne LiDAR Sensor Out Front, Real Earth Wins Microsoft Competition for Localization

PITTSBURGH and MORGAN HILL, Calif. – Real Earth, the pioneer in real-time 3D mapping and localization, secured first place in Microsoft’s Indoor Localization Competition recently held in Vienna, Austria. Real Earth achieved the top ranking through their algorithms embedded in their STENCIL product. It was the only product to perform real time indoor localization without