Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
