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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017

FLIR Expands Distribution for Machine Vision Cameras in Italy

WILSONVILLE, Ore.  – FLIR Systems Inc. (NASDAQ) announced today that VisionLink srl will become FLIR’s first authorized machine vision distributor in Italy and will begin selling FLIR’s lineup of FLIR USB3 Vision and FLIR GigE Vision area scan cameras. VisionLink srl is a machine vision hardware, software, and consulting provider based in Italy focused on

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

The Remote Paradise with a Plastic Problem

In the middle of the South Pacific Ocean, far from the urban, developed world, there’s a small, lush, green island with white sand beaches. However, this uninhabited, remote corner of the tropics—Henderson Island—also has a trash problem. The beaches of Henderson Island have the highest density of plastic waste in the world, according to a

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

FLIR Releases FLIR Blackfly S GigE Machine Vision Camera Family

WILSONVILLE, Ore.  – FLIR Systems Inc. (NASDAQ) today released a new Gigabit Ethernet-based (GigE) machine vision camera, the FLIR Blackfly S. Ideal for a range of applications including display and PCB inspection, microscopy, robotics, 3D scanning, intelligent traffic systems, the Blackfly S gives machine vision developers the tools to quickly develop innovative solutions by combining

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

Norwegian Microsatellite Built by Space Flight Laboratory Deploys First-of-Kind Yagi Antenna for VHF Data Exchange from Space

TORONTO, Ontario, Canada  – The Norwegian Space Centre has announced successful deployment of critical antennas and probes on the NORsat-1 and NORsat-2 microsatellites built by Canada’s Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) and launched on July 14 from Kazakhstan. Most notable was deployment of a large Yagi antenna from NORsat-2 that will provide first-of-its-kind VHF Data Exchange

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

MDA Signs Contract Amendment with US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to Provide Information Solution to Support Flight Operations at Airports

VANCOUVER – MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX:MDA), a global communications and information company, today announced that it has signed a contract amendment with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for its Geospatial Terminal Operations (GTO) requirement.  MDA will provide an additional year of software systems and services to automate the production of

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

Shaping the Future of Spatial Data Management and Analytics

Karlsruhe, Germany, 25/07/2017: DISY Informationssysteme GmbH will be celebrating its 20th anniversary at this year’s INTERGEO, which takes place in Berlin from September 26 to 28. For two decades, the Karlsruhe-based company has been associated with smart GIS and reporting solutions made in Germany. At the world’s largest trade fair for geodesy, spatial data and

Monday, July 24th, 2017

Harris Corporation to Announce Fourth Quarter Results on Tuesday, August 1, 2017

MELBOURNE, Fla.-Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) will host a conference call on Tuesday, August 1, 2017, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) to discuss its fourth quarter fiscal year 2017 financial results. The company will issue a press release reporting its fourth quarter results at approximately 6:30 a.m. ET. The dial-in numbers for the teleconference are (877)

Monday, July 24th, 2017

Navistar’s IoT Deployment on Cloudera Wins TDWI 2017 Best Practices Award

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Cloudera, Inc. (NYSE: CLDR), the leading provider of the modern platform for machine learning and advanced analytics, announced that TDWI, the leading global provider of analytics and data management research and education, has named Navistar‘s Internet-of-Things (IoT) deployment of Cloudera a winner of the 2017 Best Practices Award

Monday, July 24th, 2017

INTERGEO – Bridge to a Digital Future

Karlsruhe/Berlin, 24, July 2017 | When geo IT experts from the worlds of business and science sat down together at a roundtable for INTERGEO and got talking, they put together a picture of geo IT’s significance and role at the present time and looking ahead as the transformation to a digital future takes shape. The

Monday, July 24th, 2017

Kuwait’s Public Authority of Industry Wins Int’l Award for GIS App

KUWAIT – Kuwait’s Public Authority Of Industry (PAI) said on Tuesday it had won a distinguished achievement award in the field of geographic information systems (GIS). The award, described by PAI as a “great achievement,” was presented by the leading international company, ‘ESRI’, at its annual conference held recently in San Diego. Eng. Younis Al-Khilaifi