Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
Manassas, VA, November 8, 2017 – Boeing completed the acquisition of Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a world-class innovator, developer and manufacturer of advanced aerospace platforms and autonomous systems. Aurora will operate under Boeing Engineering, Test & Technology as a subsidiary called Aurora Flight Sciences, A Boeing Company. It will retain an independent operating
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
MINNEAPOLIS – Sentera announced today availability of gimbaled Double 4k and Quad sensors for the popular DJI Inspire 2 drone. Sentera’s swappable precision crop health sensors paired with the Inspire 2 offers agronomists, crop consultants, and growers an economical way to capture diverse vegetation indices such as normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) or normalized difference
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
IRVINE, Calif.-Digital Map Products, Inc. (“DMP”), a pioneer in geospatial mapping technology and intelligence, announces it has acquired Mexico Business Directory (“MBD”). Founded in 1995, MBD is the largest fully geocoded information database for business locations in Mexico, with approximately 1.6 million records. The acquisition is in-line with DMP’s strategy to significantly expand its global
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
Europe’s National Mapping, Cadastre and Land Registry Authorities have elected representatives from Ireland and Spain to the Management Board of their membership Association, EuroGeographics. Colin Bray, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Survey Officer, Ordnance Survey Ireland and Amalia Velasco Martín-Varés, International Affairs Coordinator, Spanish Directorate General for Cadastre will help to shape its strategic direction
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
Tallinn, Estonia – FFSCat – providing complementary data to the Sentinel fleet –wins the 2017 Copernicus Masters, the international competition on innovative solutions for business and society based on Earth observation (EO) data. Small satellites are a cost-effective way to test new EO concepts. FSSCat is a future-oriented satellite mission, consisting of two federated 6U
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
Tallinn, Estonia, 8 November 2017 – The Copernicus Accelerator business coaching programme, supported by the European Commission, accelerates the market entry of innovative space applications and products submitted to the EO competition Copernicus Masters. This year’s Copernicus Accelerator Opening Bootcamp started the 12-month coaching provided to the 50 finalists of the 2017 Copernicus Masters. Hereby,
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
Tallinn, Estonia – SORUS – a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) powered safety application – wins the overall prize of the 2017 European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC), an international competition on innovative business solutions for society based on GNSS data. Police, Special Forces, and other authorised Galileo PRS users can exploit this application to equip
Tuesday, November 7th, 2017
WILSONVILLE, Ore. – FLIR recently announced that the FLIR CM275 industrial imaging clamp meter, which combines thermal imaging with electrical measurement features in one powerful inspection, troubleshooting, and diagnostic tool. Offering electricians a visual way to identify hot spots and overloaded circuits, the FLIR CM275 makes inspecting and servicing plant equipment and facilities safer and
Monday, November 6th, 2017
Members of the California Citizen’s Redistricting Commission went to Washington, D.C. in July 2017 to accept the Roy and Lila Ash Innovations Award for Public Engagement in Government for its California Redistricting Panel, which used Caliper’s Maptitude for Redistricting to draw its 2012 Congressional and State Legislative boundaries that have been recognized for effectively eliminating
Monday, November 6th, 2017
A sewer flood risk map of the Anglian Water region in the UK is being created by the Wastewater Consultancy team of RPS. The highly accurate 3D digital map showing land elevation has been created using LiDAR data collected by Bluesky’s aircraft mounted laser sensors. The region-wide study of sewer flood risk, at property level,
