Thursday, August 4th, 2016
Coalville, Leicestershire, 04 August 2016 – An aerial survey using aircraft mounted lasers has revealed previously undiscovered evidence that might potentially help to dispute accusations of a lack of determination by Welsh soldiers during the first Battle of the Somme in the Great War of 1914-1918. Aerial mapping company Bluesky flew an area of northern
Thursday, August 4th, 2016
Tel Aviv, Israel – August 4th, 2016 – Eternix Ltd. today announced the release of Blaze Terra 5.0, the newest version of its flagship product, now including full-fledged symbolization. Blaze Terra users now enjoy sheer infinite options to define and illustrate differences between feature values, such as height, distance or size, by selecting from a
Thursday, August 4th, 2016
WEST VIRGINIA — Woolpert has tasked its unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones, with monitoring landslide areas and potential landslide areas in northern West Virginia. “This is an active weather time, with West Virginia experiencing historic rains,” said Aaron Lawrence, Woolpert GIS expert and UAS technology developer. “Access to this terrain can be challenging and viewsheds
Thursday, August 4th, 2016
Redlands, California —Advocates of the Opportunity Youth Network (OYN) have called for employers nationwide to embrace young people entering the workforce through the organization’s First Job Compact. The compact urges companies to earmark entry-level positions for young workers, nurture new employees with training and education, and give recent graduates the valuable employment experience they need
Thursday, August 4th, 2016
TerraGo, a pioneer of geospatial collaboration, field data collection and enterprise mobility software, announces the availability of TerraGo Edge 3.9.5 with a number of new, powerful features for iOS®, Android® and web users. TerraGo Edge is the only mobile platform that combines customizable smart forms and workforce management with advanced GPS & GIS features for
Thursday, August 4th, 2016
STUART, Florida. – SeaRobotics Corporation (SeaRobotics) has delivered the USV 2.5, an autonomous 2.5 meter unmanned surface vehicle (USV) to the Center for Marine Science and Technology at North Carolina State University. The USV, built by SeaRobotics, was funded by an award from the National Science Foundation’s Marine Lab Facilities Program. Given the diverse capabilities
Thursday, August 4th, 2016
ENGLEWOOD, COLO. — Surrey Satellite Technology (Surrey) announces the expansion of its low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite platform product capability with an extended nanosatellite offering. This follows the recent announcement by Surrey of its contract award for the VESTA nanosatellite mission. Surrey’s expanded LEO product capability now includes additional configurations suited for missions ranging in mass
Thursday, August 4th, 2016
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is calling for public participation in its newly-established Marine Domain Working Group (Marine DWG). The Marine DWG was established to address applicability of the OGC standards baseline with regards to marine geospatial data, and to ensure knowledge is exchanged effectively between the relevant standards organizations, the OGC membership, and the
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016
The first show this month will be the 7th National Geospatial Information Symposium (NGIS). The 7th NGIS will be held on August 8 and 9, 2016 at Putrajaya International Convention Center in Malaysia. National Geospatial Information Symposium is a bi-annual events organized by the Centre for Geospatial Data Infrastructure (MaCGDI), Ministry of Natural Resources and
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016
Australia has recently announced a 1.8m shift in its mapping coordinates, to compensate for the country’s 7.5cm shift north each year. Inevitably the question is why, and could the same thing happen here? In Australia, the shift is to take into account the growing difference between maps (and the coordinate reference system they’re based on)
