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Tuesday, November 29th, 2016

MAPPS Announces Judges for Tenth Annual Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards

Nov 29, 2016 — MAPPS ( www.mapps.org), the national association of private sector geospatial firms, today announced the six judge panel for the tenth annual Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards Competition. The slate of impartial judges will evaluate projects submitted for the awards competition that highlight the exceptional services, products, software and hardware produced

Monday, November 28th, 2016

what3words Adopted by Six National Mapping Agencies

London – what3words, the multi-award winning location reference system, has today announced that six national mapping agencies have adopted 3-word addresses. Used to input and share locations within national online geoportals, what3words is making it simpler for businesses, governments, and citizens to find, share and remember addresses. Based on a global grid of 57 trillion

Monday, November 28th, 2016

Research and Markets – Geospatial Imagery Analytics Market – Analysis, Technologies & Forecasts to 2021 – Key Vendors are Hexagon, Geocento & Google

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Geospatial Imagery Analytics Market – Global Forecast to 2021” report to their offering.  The geospatial imagery analytics market is estimated to grow from USD 2.77 Billion in 2016 to USD 10.21 Billion by 2021, at a high CAGR of 29.8% during the forecast period. Convergence and

Friday, November 25th, 2016

Indonesian Company Amilna Selected SuperGIS Desktop 10 to Process Spatial Data

Supergeo Technologies Inc., the global geospatial software and solutions provider, is pleased to announce that the fully functional GIS software- SuperGIS Desktop 10 was selected by Amilna Komputasi Awan to process spatial data. Located in Jakarta, Indonesia, Amilna is a company dedicates to providing various services for web development. Other than general website design, hosting,

Friday, November 25th, 2016

Farmers and the Environment to Benefit as Ordnance Survey Creates New Data Layer of Hedges

373, 919km of England’s farmland hedges have been accurately mapped to create a new digital dataset, OS Landscape Features Layer, which will be used by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA). The new dataset will play an important role in the Rural Payments Agency’s administration of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) The CAP Regulations require effective

Friday, November 25th, 2016

DJI Introduces Black Friday Promotion

NEW YORK – DJI, the world leader in unmanned aerial technology, Tuesday announced details about its Black Friday Promotion which will include price reductions in its Phantom drone series. The promotion will allow more people, especially first time drone owners, to experience DJI’s best-in-class aerial technologies at very accessible price points. DJI’s Black Friday Promotion

Friday, November 25th, 2016

Amsterdam and TomTom Join Forces to Create a Smarter City

AMSTERDAM – TomTom (TOM2) and the City of Amsterdam will collaborate on the development of traffic and travel concepts to improve traffic flow and parking in the Dutch capital. Together with the city of Amsterdam, TomTom will investigate new ways to measure traffic flow, understand parking behavior and enable city planners and inhabitants to make

Friday, November 25th, 2016

Pix4Dmapper Now with Fully-Automated DTM Extraction

­Precisely distinguishing bare earth from digital surface models (DSMs) has always been sought-after. However, it remains difficult to precisely separate objects from terrain, due to the large variety of vegetation and man-made structures above ground. Pix4D is proud to announce our implementation of some of the most successful academic research for DTM extraction into Pix4Dmapper,

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016

The SpaceDataHighway is Open for Traffic

Airbus Defence and Space starts the initial service of its SpaceDataHighway. This represents a step change in the speed of space communications. Ultra-broadband laser communications and the geostationary orbit of the relay satellites combine to deliver a unique, secure, near real time data transfer service, – making data latency a thing of the past.  

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016

Nokia and UAE’s GCAA to Support Commercial Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems

Nokia and the UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) have collaborated to develop a new ecosystem to support regular commercial use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in the country. With the new UAS ecosystem, the UAE will allow businesses and government agencies to operate drones in a secure environment. Dubai government security network operator Nedaa will also develop a new network