Friday, January 13th, 2017
Herndon, Virginia —The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) CEO Keith J. Masback was reappointed to a second three-year term as a member of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee ( NGAC). He was also reappointed as NGAC’s Vice Chair. The NGAC provides recommendations to the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), the interagency executive group responsible
Friday, January 13th, 2017
REDLANDS, Calif. — Global smart-mapping leader Esri today announced the launch of DataLB, Long Beach, California’s comprehensive data hub. The hub makes the city’s geospatial analytics data available online to the public. This technology enables citizens, businesses, and academic institutions to use geographic information for better decision-making. Since 2014, Long Beach mayor Robert Garcia has
Friday, January 13th, 2017
NACKA STRAND, Sweden — Hexagon AB, a leading global provider of information technologies that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial enterprise applications, today announced the following organisational changes: Gerhard Sallinger has been appointed new Senior Vice President of Strategic Alliances for Hexagon and Mattias Stenberg has been appointed President of PPM. Mr. Sallinger
Friday, January 13th, 2017
DALLAS & FORT WORTH, Texas — Mouser Electronics Inc., along with Easy Aerial Inc. and celebrity engineer Grant Imahara, today launched the final episode of the unique project from the latest series in the Empowering Innovation Together™ program. Project First Responders showcases the proof of concept for an autonomous, cloud-based drone platform used for search
Friday, January 13th, 2017
The Oracle Spatial and Graph SIG user group is partnering with Oracle’s Business Intelligence, Warehousing, and Analytics (BIWA) SIG on the Oracle Spatial + BIWA Summit: THE Big Data + Analytics + Spatial + Cloud + IoT + Everything Cool User Conference (http://www.biwasummit.org). The event takes place at Oracle’s headquarters in Redwood Shores, California from
Thursday, January 12th, 2017
12 January 2017 – Transmitting large volumes of data in near real time through space at a rate of 1.8 gigabytes per second based on laser technology since November 23rd, the “SpaceDataHighway” is one of the most ambitious and forward-looking communication systems in operation today. To foster further innovation and enlarge the application portfolio, Airbus
Thursday, January 12th, 2017
Munich, 12/01/2017 – Airbus Defence and Space has entered into an agreement to sell its 49 percent share in Atlas Elektronik Group to thyssenkrupp AG based in Essen, Germany. With this acquisition, thyssenkrupp, which to date has held a 51 percent share in the company, will become the sole owner of Atlas Elektronik. The sale of its
Thursday, January 12th, 2017
January 12, 2017 (Portland, Maine, USA) – The organizers of International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF), the world’s leading technical conference and expo covering the newest airborne, terrestrial and underwater LiDAR as well as emerging remote-sensing and data collection tools and technologies, announced the 2017 keynote lineup today. The event takes place February 13-15 in Denver
Thursday, January 12th, 2017
Woking, UK, 11 January 2017 – TT Electronics, a global provider of engineered electronics for performance critical applications, has today announced that its sensors will be used in the NASA mission to the planet Mars in 2020. The robustness of the company’s Hall-effect sensors enables them to withstand the harsh environments found on Mars.
Thursday, January 12th, 2017
By combining the eBee SQ, senseFly’s advanced, long-range agricultural drone with Agribotix’s award-winning FarmLens™cloud processing platform, the companies have created an easy-to-use solution that is perfectly optimised for the early identification and troubleshooting of crop issues Agribotix™, a leader in drone-enabled agricultural intelligence, has partnered with senseFly, the world’s leading producer of professional fixed-wing drones,
