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Monday, February 20th, 2017

Vollkswagen Partner with Mobileye to Turn Cars into Map Data Gathering Machines

To create the detailed maps needed for autonomous vehicles, Vollkswagen has partnered with Mobileye, to turn its fleet of vehicles into map data gathering machines. The German company will help will Mobileye to create the detailed maps needed for autonomous vehicles. Soon all new VWs equipped with the supplier’s camera-based ADAS system will be sending

Monday, February 20th, 2017

Oroville Lake Water Elevation Seen from Space

Toulouse – Due to recent and heavy rainfall, the water level of Lake Oroville has drastically increased, reaching a dangerous peak which led to the evacuation of over 100,000 people as a precaution, in case there was a dam failure. The Airbus SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 satellites constantly acquire imagery at 1.5m resolution on

Monday, February 20th, 2017

EdgeData and Harris Corporation to Collaborate on Electric Utility Asset Inspection and Management Solutions

(Grand Forks, N.D.)  – EdgeData LLC and Harris Corporation, through its Geospatial Solutions business unit, announced today the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to accelerate the development of asset inspection and management solutions for the utility industry based on remotely sensed data and advanced machine learning technology. Leveraging a recent partnership to deliver

Monday, February 20th, 2017

DLR commissions Airbus to Develop the Payload and Payload Ground Segment for MERLIN – the First Franco-German Earth Observation Satellite

Ottobrunn – Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, has signed a contract with Space Administration at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to develop and build all components of the German contribution to the German-French Earth observation mission MERLIN. The German Aerospace Center and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales

Monday, February 20th, 2017

Fugro Announces Partnership with Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE

Fugro today announced a partnership with the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE to support first round testing of the global, three-year competition, which incentivises development of rapid, unmanned and high resolution ocean mapping technologies. Fugro’s role is to provide high resolution deepwater baseline bathymetry data over a 500 km² competition area. The company has recently collected

Sunday, February 19th, 2017

International Lidar Mapping Forum (ILMF) and ASPRS Annual Conference to Take Place Together in Denver in 2018

Diversified Communications, organizer of International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) and the American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ASPRS) announced that their annual geospatial events will take place together in Denver in 2018. Lisa Murray, Director of ILMF, made the announcement with ASPRS President Charles Toth during her opening remarks at the 2017 International LiDAR

Sunday, February 19th, 2017

Aerojet Rocketdyne Names John Schneider VP of Quality & Mission Assurance

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AJRD), today announced that John Schneider has been appointed vice president of Quality & Mission Assurance (Q&MA). He succeeds Jerry Tarnacki who was recently named senior vice president of the company’s Space Business Unit. Schneider joined Aerojet Rocketdyne in July 1988 and has

Sunday, February 19th, 2017

Dwell on Design Announces Sir David Adjaye As Featured Speaker

LOS ANGELES, February 2017— Dwell on Design returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center, June 23-25, 2017, and is excited to announce the first wave of new programming! The highly- anticipated annual fair will welcome 300 new and returning exhibitors, transforming 100,000 square feet of concrete into a design incubator where prefab comes to life and

Sunday, February 19th, 2017

Aerojet Rocketdyne Names Jerry Tarnacki to Lead Space Business Unit

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AJRD), today announced that Jerry Tarnacki has been appointed as the senior vice president of the company’s recently formed Space Business Unit. A photo accompanying this announcement is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/7703b2a6-4653-4f7b-9d55-a57569e2aa8a In his new role, Tarnacki will report directly to Aerojet Rocketdyne CEO

Friday, February 17th, 2017

Kaman Measuring Announces KD-5100 Differential Measurement System

Middletown, CT – The Measuring Division of Kaman Precision Products, Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance, precision non-contact position measuring systems, announces the availability of its KD-5100 differential measurement system, which provides resolution to a nanometer of positional change. With its proven stable design, extremely small size, and low power