Saturday, August 22nd, 2015
August 22, 2015 – Taiwan began to collaborate with US company on designing and developing its own satellite since 1994. In January of 1999, the first satellite FORMOSAT-1 was launched, and retired in 2004. Later in 2004 and 2006 FORMOSAT-2 and FORMOSAT-3 were also launched. In 2010, FORMOSAT-5 passed all design verification, and is waiting to
Saturday, August 22nd, 2015
SUNNYVALE, Calif., August 22, 2015 — 100 Resilient Cities – Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) is partnering with Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB), which will offer a critical resilience building tool to 100RC’s network cities. Using Trimble® eCognition® Essentials software, cities can leverage readily available satellite and aerial imagery from manned or unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to
Friday, August 21st, 2015
August 21, 2015 — Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on a proposed OGC Discussion Paper “A MetOcean Metadata Profile for WCS 2.0” and the supporting Discussion Paper “OGC Web Coverage Service Interface Standard – Coverage Collection Extension”.
Friday, August 21st, 2015
NORTH BETHESDA, Maryland, USA, August 21, 2015 — Progressive Technology Federal Systems Inc. (PTFS), a provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, will demonstrate a Multi-INT change detection service at the 2015 Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems Worldwide Conference (DoDIIS). The new service enables clients to correlate change on the earth’s surface with other geospatial
Friday, August 21st, 2015
Logan, UT, August 21, 2015 — Rugged handheld computer manufacturer, Juniper Systems, is seeing a change in leadership as its current President and CEO, Rob Campbell, is stepping aside after fourteen years at the company’s head, to accept a position as President of Campbell Scientific, Inc., Juniper Systems’ parent company and a world leader in precision
Friday, August 21st, 2015
Saunderton, August 21, 2015 — MapAction is delighted to announce that it has won four Stevie International Business Awards, which will be formally presented on October 23rd 2015 in Toronto, Canada. MapAction, the only volunteer-driven charity of its kind worldwide, provides rapid on-the-ground mapping to aid agencies in response to humanitarian emergencies. Most recently it deployed
Friday, August 21st, 2015
Saragossa, August 21, 015 — Parrot, one of the world leading dronecompanies, will sponsor Expodronica, the 1st first International trade showon civil drones to be held in Spain, next September 24th & 25th.
Friday, August 21st, 2015
Herndon, Virginia, August 21, 2015 — With members’ feedback in mind, the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) launched a new Individual Membership program and simplified its Organizational Membership. USGIF introduced the new structure at the GEOINT 2015 Symposium.
Thursday, August 20th, 2015
August 20, 2015 (Portland, Maine, USA) — The exhibit floor for the 2015 Commercial UAV Expo completely sold out almost two months before the show’s launch, spurring event organizer SPAR Point Group to add space to handle the overwhelming demand. “UAS companies have thrown their support behind Commercial UAV Expo,” said Lisa Murray, Commercial UAV Expo
Thursday, August 20th, 2015
Irvine, Calif., August 20, 2015 — Researchers from the University of California, Irvine and NASA have uncovered a remarkably strong link between high wildfire risk in the Amazon basin and the devastating hurricanes that ravage North Atlantic shorelines. The climate scientists’ findings appear in the journal Geophysical Research Letters near the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s
