Friday, August 16th, 2019
Cleveland, MS — Delta State University recently became the first undergraduate degree program to achieve collegiate accreditation from the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. Singled out for its geospatial analysis and intelligence (GAI) bachelor of applied science (BAS) program, Delta State became the 18th school to receive USGIF accreditation. The BAS-GAI degree can be earned
Friday, August 16th, 2019
GfK’s Map of the Month for August illustrates the forecasted growth rates for brick-and-mortar retail turnover in Europe in 2019. According to GfK’s latest retail study, nominal turnover growth of +2.0% is anticipated for the EU-27 nations (excludes the United Kingdom) in 2019. The highest growth rates are expected for Romania (+7.0%), Lithuania (+5.9%) and
Friday, August 16th, 2019
Chippenham, Wilts: The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (Defra) Digital, Data and Technology Services (DDTS) has chosen SCISYS as its preferred software solution and services provider to underpin the Defra Earth Observation (EO) Data Service. By automatically and centrally processing raw satellite EO data so that it can be analysed the service, currently
Friday, August 16th, 2019
FAA UAS Integration Pilot Program partners Kansas Department of Transportation, Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus and Westar Energy solely leverage Iris Automation to limit the risk of airborne collisions while flying BVLOS TOPEKA, Kan. – The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) received permission to conduct the first ever beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) drone operation in
Wednesday, August 14th, 2019
UNNYVALE, Calif.,— Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the launch of the latest addition to its portfolio of data collectors—the Trimble® T7 tablet. Purpose-built for survey and Geographic Information System (GIS) data collection applications, the next-generation tablet connects to Trimble’s suite of survey instruments and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers in a portable and ultra-rugged
Wednesday, August 14th, 2019
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites anyone who provides and/or uses geospatial data or products for disaster planning and response to the Disasters Resilience Pilot Demonstration Event, to be held Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at USGS Headquarters, Reston, VA. In all aspects of disaster management and response, the effective sharing of geospatial information, through the
Wednesday, August 14th, 2019
Malta is hosting an International workshop on spatial data quality which will see producers, users, academia and software suppliers gather in Valletta on 28 and 29 January 2020. Abstracts and papers are now invited for the two-day event organised by EuroGeographics and EuroSDR in conjunction with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) Technical
Wednesday, August 14th, 2019
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.- Sanborn today announced implementation of the next generation of HD Map technology for level 4 and level 5 autonomous vehicles. “Sanborn continues its commitment to helping our customers succeed by creating new scalable technology,” said John Copple, President and CEO. “The Sanborn M-Maps™, developed for the autonomous vehicle market, provide precision datasets
Wednesday, August 14th, 2019
Octo today announced it has been awarded a 2.5 year contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to provide geospatial product development under the GEOINT Services, Data Services, Core Delivery Teams (CDT) contract. This contract supports the NGA GEOINT Services effort to build open-source geospatial capabilities for the broader National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG)
Wednesday, August 14th, 2019
Amsterdam – HERE Technologies, a global leader in mapping and location platform services, today announced that WorkWave®, a provider of cloud-based software solutions that support every stage of a service business’s lifecycle, has replaced Google’s Map and Geocoder products with the HERE Location Suite. WorkWave’s cloud-based GPS and route planning solutions will utilize industry leading
