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Monday, February 20th, 2017

Maptitude 115th Congressional Districts with 2010/15 Census & ACS Demographics

NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS (USA) – Caliper is excited to announce that 115th Congressional Districts data are now available for the entire USA. These are the most accurate boundaries available, reflecting our expertise in the field as the market leading redistricting software package. The Congressional Districts data is packed with essential information for corporate legislative affairs departments, lobbyists, political

Monday, February 20th, 2017

Djibouti Chooses what3words as National Addressing System

February  2017 – what3words, the multi-award winning addressing system, has been adopted as an addressing standard by La Poste de Djibouti. Located in the Horn of Africa Republic of Djibouti is the fifth country in the world to accept 3 word addresses to improve its national infrastructure. Djibouti occupies a total area of just 23,200

Monday, February 20th, 2017

Colorado DOT Has Adopted Datumate’s Cutting Edge Mapping Tools

YOKNEAM ILLIT, Israel – Datumate’s professional Site Survey Solution has helped the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) to quickly and safely survey a water pond located at the highway intersection of Colorado Boulevard and I-25 in the Denver Metro area. Denver has an additional 300 water quality ponds and this technology will be primarily used to

Monday, February 20th, 2017

NGA Releases Biggest Collection of Arctic Elevation Data Yet at Esri FedGIS Conference

REDLANDS, Calif.- Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, together with the ArcticDEM project—a public-private initiative to produce high-resolution, high-quality digital elevation models (DEM) of the Arctic—has released the largest addition of new elevation models to the project thus far. The ArcticDEM project is an ongoing collaboration between National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the Polar Geospatial

Monday, February 20th, 2017

DroneDeploy Selected by CNH Industrial for Intuitive New Drone System Targeting Ag Customers

SAN FRANCISCO, CA and BURR RIDGE, IL – DroneDeploy today announced that its cloud-based platform has been selected by CNH Industrial — a global leader in agricultural equipment and other capital goods — as the software for a unique, all-in-one UAV system. Available now from CNH Industrial’s network of Case IH and New Holland dealers,

Monday, February 20th, 2017

Integrated Informatics Inc. Releases Marco Mystic Version 2.0

HOUSTON, – Integrated Informatics Inc. today unveils the latest addition to its Marco Studio suite, Marco Mystic version 2.0. Marco Mystic is a high-performance web-based application that allows for spatial data inventory, search, and analysis of Esri-based Enterprise GIS implementations. Marco Mystic provides the many spatial data inventory tools previously only available in Marco Commander,

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