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Tuesday, November 1st, 2016

FARO Launches PointSense 17.5 with New Tools that Dramatically Accelerate Workflows Inside Revit and AutoCAD for Construction BIM-CIM Users

Lake Mary, FL – FARO® (NASDAQ: FARO), the world’s most trusted source for 3D measurement and imaging solutions for factory metrology, product design, construction BIM-CIM, public safety forensics and 3D solutions and services applications, announces the release of PointSense 17.5, providing powerful new tools for extracting and aligning building and plant features from point cloud

Monday, October 31st, 2016

Eos Introduces Photogrammetry Software for Drone Photography

Eos Systems Inc. has introduced new photogrammetry software optimized specifically for photographs taken with drones or unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The new PhotoModeler UAS 2016 creates 3D models, measurements, and maps from photographs taken with ordinary cameras built-in or mounted on drones. It has numerous features for operation with drone photos, including post processing kinematics (PPK),

Monday, October 31st, 2016

The Latest SuperSurv 3.3 for iOS Is Released!

Developed and maintained by the product team for years, SuperSurv is one of the core products of Supergeo. By integrating GIS and GPS perfectly, SuperSurv can help field workers to collect, display, edit, and manage spatial data with ease, and it is available on both two mainstream mobile operating systems: Android and iOS. Last month,

Monday, October 31st, 2016

GAF Operationally Provides Ocean Colour Data to ESA

Neustrelitz, Germany –  After signing respective agreements with ESA and Antrix, the commercial arm of ISRO, GAF as the prime contractor in cooperation with DLR has upgraded the ground station in Neustrelitz to accommodate the reception of data from the Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) aboard the Oceansat-2 Indian remote sensing (IRS) satellite. The integration and

Monday, October 31st, 2016

USGIF Launches EdGEOcation Giving Campaign

Herndon, Virginia Oct. – The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) has launched the EdGEOcation Giving Campaign to raise money and awareness for USGIF’s educational programs. The Foundation has set the goal to raise $5,000 by Dec. 31. USGIF’s educational activities include awarding scholarships to students studying geospatial sciences, providing academic certificates to students who

Monday, October 31st, 2016

Airbus Completes First GRACE-FO Satellite for NASA/JPL

Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, has finished construction of the first of the two GRACE-FO (GRACE = Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, FO = Follow-On) satellites in Friedrichshafen, Germany.  The satellite will now be transferred to Ottobrunn near Munich for several months of operational testing in the IABG test centre.

Monday, October 31st, 2016

Esri Sponsors 2016 Code for America Summit

REDLANDS, Calif.  — Global smart mapping leader Esri will continue its long-standing support of Code for America by sponsoring the 2016 Code for America Summit, which will take place November 1 to 3, in Oakland, California. Each year, Code for America brings together leaders in the civic technology community to discuss the new ways technology

Monday, October 31st, 2016

HYPACK Chose the Ellipse-D Inertial Navigation System to Equip their UAV-Based Surveying Solution: NEXUS 800

Rueil-Malmaison, France– Hypack chose the Ellipse-D inertial navigation system to equip their new UAV-based surveying solution: the NEXUS 800. The NEXUS 800 is an out of the box turnkey system that tightly integrates hardware and software to provide an advanced and seamless solution for LiDAR survey planning, data acquisition, post processing and analysis, and product

Friday, October 28th, 2016

MBRSC Presents Three Technical Studies at the 2016 SPIE Remote Sensing Conference

The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) has attended the SPIE Remote Sensing Conference 2016, held this year in Scotland at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre in Edinburgh, between the 26th and 29th September, presenting three technical studies to the international remote sensing community. The space centre has now participated in the conference for the

Friday, October 28th, 2016

CACI Awarded Prime Position on $978 Million IDIQ for National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

ARLINGTON, Va.- CACI International Inc (NYSE: CACI) announced today that it has been awarded a prime position on the Full-Motion Video (FMV) functional area of the Multi-Intelligence Analytical and Collection Support Services (MACSS) multiple-award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The company has also been awarded a five-year,