Monday, October 31st, 2016
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
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
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
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
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,
Friday, October 28th, 2016
At this year’s IBM World of Watson event in Las Vegas, global smart mapping leader Esri announced that it now works with IBM users and developers to broaden the customer experience by making Esri data and technology available in the IBM cloud. IBM customers can now use Esri maps, data, geospatial tools, and analytical services
Friday, October 28th, 2016
DULLES, Va.–Orbital ATK, Inc. (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to design and build Landsat 9, an advanced land surface mapping satellite to be operated by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The Landsat
Friday, October 28th, 2016
Brits Anthony Lambert and Louis Nethercott are seeking to become the first humans to travel across the five largest islands on the planet. Starting this November, Lambert and Nethercott will visit Greenland, Papua New Guinea, Borneo, Madagascar and Canada’s Baffin Island. DubbedExpedition 5, the duo will be traveling more than 5,000 kilometers, and encountering various conditions
Friday, October 28th, 2016
In its first version, SmartBetterCities’ released CloudCities virtual reality tool, that can be imported from CityEngine, SketchUp and GoogleEarth. CloudCities is an online platform for hosting, sharing and visualizing smart 3D city models. The models are based on OpenStreetMap, are lightweight and used mostly by mobile users, with an easy drag-and-drop workflow. It was used
Friday, October 28th, 2016
The long-term GIS project of Taiwan government “Statistical Map API” was selected as Asia Geospatial Excellence Award 2016 and announced on GeoSmart Asia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. With the title of Developing Nationwide Statistical Map API for Effective Governance, the team formed by Department of Statistics, MOI, and Supergeo submitted a nomination to the organizer–
