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Friday, December 9th, 2016

FARO Opens New Office in Australia

Singapore, 9 December 2016 – FARO Technologies, a global technology company that develops and markets computer-aided coordinate measurement devices and software, opens its new office in Brisbane, Australia.   This move is part of FARO’s long-term growth plan and to increase its footprint in Asia Pacific.   FARO’s customer base in Australia and New Zealand

Thursday, December 8th, 2016

UAS To Offer A $23.6 Billion Revenue Opportunity For SATCOM & Geospatial Industries

Just released is NSR’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS): Satcom and Imaging Markets, 3rd Edition report that projects cumulative revenue opportunity of $19.9 billion for UAS satellite communications and $3.7 billion for commercial UAS imaging service during the 2015-2025 period. The persistent demand for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) by the Defense & Intelligence community in

Thursday, December 8th, 2016

Supergeo Showcased the Latest GIS Products and Solutions in GSDI 15

Held by Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) and Ministry of the Interior (MOI), Taiwan, the 15th GSDI World Conference came to an end on December 2nd. Knowing the importance of spatial data infrastructure, Supergeo was willing to attend the exhibition and show the infinite possibilities of applying spatial data from the very beginning. As

Thursday, December 8th, 2016

Tim Marshall Frees the Prisoners of Geography with the UKGEOforum

The next UKGEOforum Annual Lecture will be given in January 2017 by the author and former Diplomatic Editor and Foreign Correspondent for Sky News, Tim Marshall. Tim served his time as an unpaid intern and endured many nightshifts before he got his first chance to go in front of the cameras. Since then, he has

Wednesday, December 7th, 2016

Two Glaciers Collapse In Western Tibet

A glacier near Lake Aru in western Tibet collapsed on 17 July 2016. Now the Journal of Glaciology publishes the first scientific account of this cryospheric disaster in which nine local yak herders were killed. Eyewitnesses reported that the episode lasted only four to five minutes. More than 70 million cubic metres of ice tumbled

Wednesday, December 7th, 2016

Fugro’s Airborne Technology Deployed In Response To New Zealand Earthquake

Fugro’s LADS technology is being deployed in New Zealand to assist in relief efforts following the damaging 7.9 magnitude earthquake near Christchurch on 14th November 2016. At the request of the New Zealand Government, the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Laser Airborne Depth Sounder (LADS) Flight is to conduct a rapid hydrographic survey of the seafloor

Wednesday, December 7th, 2016

MEMSIC INC Introduces Industry’s Highest Performance 3-Axis Magnetic Sensor Product

Dec 7, 2016 – Andover, MA- MEMSIC Inc., a leading solutions provider, combining proprietary MEMS technology with advanced mixed-signal processing and systems solutions, today announced the availability of the MMC5883MA 3 Axis Magnetic Sensor. The newest member of MEMSIC’s Anisotropic Magneto Resistive (AMR) based Magnetic Sensor family, it provides the industry’s highest accuracy, lowest noise

Tuesday, December 6th, 2016

Arctic Sea Ice at Record Lows

Every northern fall and winter, cooling ocean and air temperatures cause the floating cap of Arctic sea ice to grow from its annual minimum extent toward a maximum between February and April. So far in 2016, however, the Arctic Ocean and neighboring seas have been slow to freeze, setting both daily and monthly record lows.

Tuesday, December 6th, 2016

OGC Requests Public Comment On Its Coverage Implementation Schema – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the OGC Coverage Implementation Schema (CIS) – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension. A referenceable grid is associated with information that allows the location of all points in the grid to be determined in a coordinate reference system (CRS), but the location of the points is not directly available from

Monday, December 5th, 2016

New Features in the Upcoming SuperPad 10

Supergeo is excited to announce that SuperPad 3.3, one of the most popular mobile GIS software, will soon have an upgraded version – SuperPad 10! Supported both Windows and Windows Mobile Operating System, SuperPad is the mobile GIS software designed for spatial data collection. In the 10 version, SuperPad will bring a smoother and more