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Tuesday, December 27th, 2016

Bon voyage, MetOp-C!

Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, has sent the MetOp-C payload module, the ‘brain’ for Europe’s next polar-orbiting weather satellite, on its first journey. The module, which weighs around 2.1 tonnes, contains ten measuring instruments together with their control systems. These comprise systems for issuing commands and monitoring instruments, formatting data, encrypting

Tuesday, December 27th, 2016

HUBER+SUHNER Help Provide Accurate Satellite Navigation as EU project Galileo Goes Live

Herisau – Project Galileo, a joint initiative of the EU and European Space Agency (ESA), has gone live, with global connectivity supplier HUBER+SUHNER on-board. The Switzerland-based company is supplying radio frequency components to the project, and following an extensive testing period and 17 years of development, the Galileo system went live last week with the

Tuesday, December 27th, 2016

Hemisphere GNSS Names Halsey New President and CEO

Hemisphere GNSS has named industry veteran Farlin Halsey as its president and chief executive officer, effective January 2, 2017. Halsey replaces interim president and CEO Xinping Guo, who has served in that position for eight months. In addition, Halsey has been appointed to the company’s board of directors. Guo, chairman and general manager of Beijing

Tuesday, December 27th, 2016

OGC Calls for Participation in its Indian Interoperability Plugfest

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is calling to vendors doing business in India for participation in its latest Interoperability Plugfest. The Department of Science and Technology (DST), under Government of India, is interested in planning and convening an Indian OGC Interoperability Plugfest.The focus of the plugfest is to better support the National Programs on Smart Cities

Tuesday, December 27th, 2016

Latest Release of TerraGo Edge and TerraGo Magic Provides Seamless Integration with Esri ArcGIS

TerraGo, a pioneer of geospatial collaboration and enterprise mobility software, announces the availability of version 3.9.8 of TerraGo Edge and TerraGo Magic, featuring the brand new ArcGIS® Direct Connect feature. With ArcGIS Direct Connect, users can connect to ArcGIS Online® and ArcGIS Server® providing direct access to feature layers which can be updated by mobile

Wednesday, December 21st, 2016

FAA’s Part 107 Rules Ease Some of the Challenges Faced by Commercial UAS Operators

In recent years, the news media portrayed unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), commonly known as “drones,” as the technology of choice to take aerial images (photos and/or videos) of everything under the sun, from sporting events to weddings, surveys, real estate, construction monitoring, and so on. Unless operated indoors, UASs fly in the National Air Space

Wednesday, December 21st, 2016

NS Groep N.V. to Deploy Real-Time Diagnostic System from Trimble Company, Trimble Railway Limited

SUNNYVALE, Calif.  — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that NS Groep N.V. (NS), the Dutch state-owned rail company, will be deploying the Trimble® R2M real-time remote diagnostics monitoring system. As a core component of NS’ overall real-time monitoring architecture, the system allows railway operators to streamline maintenance costs and provide efficiencies across their fleet by

Wednesday, December 21st, 2016

Blue Marble Geographics Announces Revised Global Mapper Training Curriculum and Schedule for 2017

Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the successful completion of its 2016 Global Mapper Certified Training Program with a sold-out three-day class in Orlando, FL from December 6-8. Blue Marble’s hands-on instructor-led classes have proven to be an indispensable asset for countless users hoping to get the most out of the software. The

Wednesday, December 21st, 2016

TatukGIS for Mobile GIS Development

TatukGIS has released version 11 of its GIS Developer Kernel for Delphi edition. New support for the Embarcadero FireMonkey (FMX) framework enables Delphi and C++Builder development for desktop and mobile computing devices. The extensive TatukGIS API and features can now be used to develop professional GIS applications for the Microsoft Windows (32 & 64 bit),

Wednesday, December 21st, 2016

The Excellent Mobile GIS App – SuperSurv 10 Is Coming Soon

Supergeo is pleased to announce that SuperSurv, one of the most well-known mobile GIS products of Supergeo, will soon leap forward to the next generation, SuperSurv 10! Available on iOS and Android mobile operating systems, SuperSurv is a mobile GIS app designed for field surveying and spatial data collection by Supergeo Product Team. Recently, the