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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017

GeoMax Names Gottlieb Nestle GmbH Master Dealer

(Widnau, SWITZERLAND, 17 January 2017) GeoMax, the dependable surveying and construction product provider, announced today Gottlieb Nestle GmbH, recognised manufacturer and distributor of surveying and construction products and accessories, as its master dealer for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. “Offering an exclusive hub for our quality surveying and construction tools through Gottlieb Nestle GmbH’s well-positioned place

Tuesday, January 17th, 2017

UrtheCast Enters into Binding Agreement Worth US$180 Million to Sell and Operate Two Satellites in the OptiSAR Constellation

VANCOUVER, Jan. 17, 2017  – UrtheCast Corp. (TSX:UR) (“UrtheCast” or the “Company”), the geospatial and geo-analytics company developing two Earth Observation (EO) satellite constellations, known as OptiSARTM and UrtheDailyTM, today announces that it has entered into a binding agreement with a confidential government customer for the sale and shared operation of the first two satellites in

Tuesday, January 17th, 2017

UltiSat Awarded CTC Task Order to Provide Satellite Bandwidth for Geospatial Intelligence Missions

GAITHERSBURG, MD – UltiSat, Inc., a leading provider of end-to-end managed satellite network solutions, announced that the Defense Information Systems Agency Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DISA-DITCO) recently awarded a COMSATCOM Transponded Capacity (CTC) task order to UltiSat to provide Ku-band bandwidth capacity to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Deployable Communications Systems (NDCS). Services provided

Tuesday, January 17th, 2017

GeoMarvel and GEO Jobe, Announce MapLapse in Esri’s ArcGIS Marketplace

NASHVILLE, Tenn.  — GeoMarvel, an Esri Emerging Business Partner, and GEO Jobe, a Silver Esri Business Partner, have announced the release of MapLapse, a cutting-edge application using critical technologies to solve a real world problem. Use MapLapse as a professional tool to look into any landcover or land use change genre. It can also be

Friday, January 13th, 2017

Sanborn Launches Mezurit.com for Subscription-Based Oblique Imagery Viewing and Analytics

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. —  The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. (Sanborn) announces the launch of its new Mezurit.com service that allows subscribers to accurately measure anything captured in the company’s aerial imagery database. MezuritTM provides online access to oblique aerial imagery and easy-to-use software tools for measurement and analysis of imagery from Sanborn’s rapidly growing collection

Friday, January 13th, 2017

Textron Systems Begins On-Water Testing for Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle (CUSV)

WASHINGTON —   SURFACE NAVY —  Textron Systems Unmanned Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) business, announced today that it began on-water testing for the fourth-generation Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle (CUSV™), supporting the U.S. Navy’s Unmanned Influence Sweep System (UISS) program. Textron Systems completed the design, build and component test phases of the UISS program in

Friday, January 13th, 2017

GIS and Cartographic Solutions Consultants, Lovell Johns, Showcase 50 Years of Expertise with New Website

Map Making and GIS consultants, Lovell Johns, today announced the launch of their redesigned website. Planning for the updated site began late last year after canvassing opinion within the business about the shortfalls of the current site and what they hoped to achieve with the new design. A key concern was that the years of

Friday, January 13th, 2017

Mobius Acquires GISbiz Technologies Inc.’s GIS Data Services Arm

Mobius expands its data services portfolio with the recent acquisition of the services division of GISbiz, one of the leading Geographic Information Systems(GIS)  technology and service provider based out of Nashville, TN. This addition expands Mobius’ formidable data services portfolio to include various GIS services including GeoCoding, Data Conversion, LIDAR data management, Photogrammetry data editing

Friday, January 13th, 2017

Caltrans Takes Delivery of the RIEGL VMX-1HA

Orlando, FL – Caltrans, the California state agency responsible for highway, bridge, and rail transportation planning, construction, and maintenance, has taken delivery of the NEW RIEGL VMX-1HA mobile mapping system! The RIEGL VMX-1HA is a high speed, high performance dual scanner mobile mapping system. It provides industry-leading performance and dense, accurate, and feature-rich data at

Friday, January 13th, 2017

Airbus Defence and Space Celebrates Five Years of the First Pléiades Satellite Launch

Five years ago, the very high-resolution satellite Pléiades 1A was launched from the Guiana Space Center, joined by its twin Pléiades 1B a few months later. This was the start of what is known as the Pléiades constellation, which makes it possible to create imagery product of every point of the globe at a 50cm