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Friday, October 27th, 2017

Bluesky UK Tree Map Helps Community Forest Rebuild Environment

Leicestershire, UK – One of England’s original Community Forest projects is using Bluesky’s National Tree Map to monitor progress and engage with stakeholders and the local community. The largest environmental regeneration project in Bedfordshire, the Forest of Marston Vale (The Forest) is one of the 12 Community Forests designated in the 1990s. Designed to regenerate

Friday, October 27th, 2017

Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan to Give Keynote at Esri Ocean GIS Forum

Redlands, California—Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, today announced that Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan, former astronaut and administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), will give the Keynote Address at the Esri Ocean GIS Forum in Redlands, California, to be held Tuesday, October 31, through Thursday, November 2. The first American woman

Friday, October 27th, 2017

Missouri University of Science and Technology Adds Datumate’s Professional Surveying and Mapping Suite to Geoscience Studies

YOKNEAM, Israel – Missouri University of Science and Technology has chosen Datumate‘s Site Survey Solution to educate their students in the geological engineering program with the latest mapping and surveying technologies. The geological engineering program will use Datumate’s professional surveying suite that includes a DJI drone, DatuFly™ professional imagery app for drones and DatuSurvey™ Enterprise photogrammetry software for generating

Friday, October 27th, 2017

Vaisala Acquired Finnish IT Company Vionice Specialized in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence

Vaisala, a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement, today announced that it has purchased a Finnish IT company, Vionice Oy, specialized in computer vision and image processing. The dealfollows Vaisala’s Weather and Environment Business Area’s strategy in which the company stated that it is looking for both organic growth and growth through smart acquisitions

Friday, October 27th, 2017

Astun Proud to Support MapAction

Staff from Astun Technology, the leading provider of cloud-based open-source GIS solutions to local and central governments, once again proudly joined the ranks of volunteers who gave their time and expertise to support MapAction this year. Commenting on all those who supported the charity, MapAction Chief Executive Liz Hughes said; “Our volunteers are the lifeblood of

Friday, October 27th, 2017

UTC Aerospace Systems Celebrates Milestone Delivery of 100th Podded Propulsion System to Airbus in Mobile, Alabama

CHARLOTTE, N.C.- One of the world’s largest aerospace systems providers, UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), today delivered its 100th podded propulsion system – a nacelle system integrated with an engine – to the Airbus final assembly line in Mobile, Alabama. UTC Aerospace Systems’ Aerostructures business provides the complete nacelle systems for

Thursday, October 26th, 2017

Genetec Announces Traffic Sense—A Unified Traffic Operations Platform Driven by Advanced Analytics

MONTRÉAL, October 26th 2017— In a move that offers a modern approach to traffic operations, Genetec Inc. (“Genetec”), a leading technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions, today announced the launch of a next-generation software platform called Genetec Traffic Sense™. Designed to deliver greater oversight and efficiency for traffic operations,

Thursday, October 26th, 2017

OGC Supports American Geographical Society’s 2017 Fall Symposium, Geography 2050

(AGS), GEO, and USGIF will present the AGS Fall Symposium, Geography 2050: The Future of Mobility on November 16-17, 2017. Hosted by the Earth Institute at Columbia University, the two-day event will take place in Alfred Lerner Hall, and discuss the vital trends in mobility that will reshape the geography of our planet by 2050. Geography

Wednesday, October 25th, 2017

Caliper Sponsors and Presents at NEURISA

NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS (USA) – The Maptitude software team, who manage the popular business mapping application, today announced that they sponsored, attended, and presented at NEURISA Day 2017, that took place Oct. 16 in Fitchburg, MA (USA). Stewart Berry, Vice President at Caliper Corporation, delivered a talk on how specialized transportation GIS (GIS-T) tools are becoming

Wednesday, October 25th, 2017

OGC Announces a New Standard that Improves the Way Information is Referenced to the Earth

The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved the Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) as OGC Abstract Specification – Topic 21 . The goal of DGGS is to enable rapid assembly of spatial data without the difficulties of working with projected coordinate reference systems. The OGC DGGS Abstract Specification standard defines the