Friday, February 12th, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS — East View Geospatial customers will now have access to increased satellite imagery frequency, and a growing archive offering the full suite of Planet Labs products. The agreement gives East View Geospatial additional resources to meet diverse customer needs, as more than 100 Planet Labs satellites are circling the earth, gathering data and recording
Friday, February 12th, 2016
Washington, D.C.— Today, TerraGo announced the City of Sebring, Florida, has deployed TerraGo Edge for utility asset inspection and management. With TerraGo Edge, Sebring has been able to cut costs, bring surveys in-house and improve response times for repairs. Like thousands of water utilities across the United States, the City of Sebring (FL) Utilities Department
Friday, February 12th, 2016
SAN JOSE, CA, – Following the successful launch of Drone World Expo, the defining event for commercial drone applications, the organizers have been busy planning for the second annual event scheduled for November 15-16, 2016, once again at the San Jose Convention Center. The inaugural Drone World Expo welcomed 2,120 people from 29 countries to
Friday, February 12th, 2016
HydroloGIS, the company behind the open source projects Geopaparazzi and JGrasstools, has officially joined the gvSIG Association. What this small Italian based company brings to the Association, is the expertise of their environmental engineers in the fields of hydro-geomorphological analyses and risk mapping, as well as water management, processing of LiDAR data and digital field
Friday, February 12th, 2016
ARLINGTON, Va. – Brian Wynne, president and CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), today issued the following statement on the introduction of the Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization (AIRR) Act, a six-year reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The legislation was introduced by Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA)
Friday, February 12th, 2016
Des Plaines, IL , —The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), in partnership with the American Public Health Association (APHA), invites abstract submissions for the 2016 GIS and Health Symposium. The theme for this year’s Symposium is “Mapping the Way to Healthy Communities”. The event will take place June 1-3, 2016 in Washington, DC.
Friday, February 12th, 2016
Washington, DC and Raleigh, NC — In support of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)/Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) tenBoma project to develop a counter-wildlife crime intelligence fusion center, Agile Analytics Group and Boundless today announced they are working together to help build a geospatial data analysis platform, known as the “Boma”, to track poaching
Friday, February 12th, 2016
LIVERMORE, Calif. — Topcon Positioning Group announces the latest addition to its line of data controllers for construction and surveying professionals — the FC-5000. The 7-inch sunlight-readable display field controller is designed to provide operators a larger, more versatile and faster handheld computer for the modern construction site. “At 7-inches, the FC-5000 has the largest handheld
Friday, February 12th, 2016
GOLDSBORO, N.C. — Geographic Technologies Group (GTG) is currently assisting the Columbus Consolidated Government, Georgia and the City of Bozeman, Montana with the migration of their existing cadastral data into the Esri Parcel Fabric. Beyond the standard GIS data model, Esri has developed the Parcel Fabric which is a data model specifically designed for the
Friday, February 12th, 2016
A new series of maps of fog and low clouds covering the northern and central California coasts reveals daytime and nighttime patterns with a level of detail never previously mapped. U.S. Geological Survey scientists used new analyses of satellite images to understand the dynamics of fog. Fog and low clouds have a significant influence on
