Monday, December 12th, 2016
DENVER, Dec. 12, 2016 – The U.S. Air Force approved Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) design to upgrade the current GPS satellite ground control system with new capabilities that will enable it to operate more powerful and accurate GPS III satellites. The successful Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Contingency Operations (COps) contract, completed on November
Friday, December 9th, 2016
SolidCAD, an Autodesk Platinum Partner reseller in Canada is pleased to announce a new partnership with North America’s leader in commercial UAV technologies, 3DR. SolidCAD can now market, sell and support 3DR’s Site Scan bundle across Canada . This bundle is the complete aerial analytics package, which includes a self-flying UAV, the intuitive mobile app
Friday, December 9th, 2016
TomTom and Pitney Bowes today announce an expansion of their partnership. TomTom’s global location content is assisting Pitney Bowes to strengthen its position as the preferred single-source provider of enterprise-grade location intelligence solutions worldwide. This announcement bolsters the long-standing partnership between TomTom and Pitney Bowes, and demonstrates both companies’ commitment to serving the Enterprise GIS
Friday, December 9th, 2016
Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, has been selected by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to conduct 1,211 square miles of lidar surveys covering a large portion of the Everglades National Park in southern Florida. High-density topobathymetric lidar and ground survey data will be collected for the project, enabling elevation modeling within both
Friday, December 9th, 2016
Des Plaines, IL – URISA is pleased to announce that its GIS Leadership Academy will be offered twice in 2017. •April 3-7, 2017 in San Diego, California •July 24-28, 2017 in Providence, Rhode Island The success of any GIS program is largely tied to the capabilities of its leader. Strong leadership is necessary to establish
Friday, December 9th, 2016
Andy Freckmann comes aboard as Program Director and will oversee all Business Development activities at Optimal GEO. “Andy is a strong addition to the Optimal GEO team,” said Mark Brooks, Chief Operating Officer for Optimal GEO. “With a great deal of insight in various aspects of the remote sensing and GIS markets, Andy will help
Friday, December 9th, 2016
Modern Earth observation technologies (spaceborne, airborne and terrestrial) are increasingly deployed to capture environmental attributes about agricultural land and assets. Big data collected by various sensors and the information extracted are critical for the growing AgTech and precision agriculture industry. Many baseline terrain and environmental attributes for agricultural land should be systematically and digitally catalogued
Friday, December 9th, 2016
IOC Executive Secretary, Vladimir Ryabinin, and WOC CEO, Paul Holthus, signed the Partnership Agreement at the opening session of the Sustainable Ocean Summit (SOS), Rotterdam, 30 Dec-2 Nov. Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary of the IOC, stated that, “WOC is a very important partner for IOC. We count on WOC in reaching out to the ocean
Friday, December 9th, 2016
MONROVIA, Calif.- AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems for both military and commercial applications, today announced it has begun a year-long study with California State University, Fresno to research how unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery and analytics could potentially detect varying levels of water stress in almond trees and give
Friday, December 9th, 2016
REDLANDS, Calif. — Global smart-mapping leader Esri today announced that its experts will be convening at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California. The AGU is among the world’s most well-respected earth science scholarly organizations. Its annual fall meeting is expected to attract 24,000 attendees, making it the largest earth and
