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Tuesday, July 5th, 2016

The Channel Syndicate Subscribes to InsitePro for Underwriting US Flood Insurance

DENVER – Intermap Technologies®, a leading provider of location-based intelligence solutions, today announced an InsitePro subscription from the Channel Syndicate, an underwriter in the Lloyd’s insurance marketplace. Syndicates at Lloyd’s underwrite business placed in the open market (usually via Lloyd’s Brokers) or delegate authority to an independent company which is approved as a Lloyd’s Coverholder.

Tuesday, July 5th, 2016

European Satellite Navigation Competition – Extended Submission Phase

The submission phase for the ESNC 2016 is going into extra time. Interested participants have the chance to submit, complete or improve their ideas until 09:00 am (CEST) Monday, 11 July 2016 at www.esnc.eu. As the larges GNSS-related innovation network, the annual ESNC rewards the best services, products, and business cases that use satellite navigation

Tuesday, July 5th, 2016

Dewberry Assesses East Coast Flood Damage through Aerial and Satellite Photography Interpretation

Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, has completed a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) contract to interpret aerial and satellite imagery and assess damages in South Carolina following a record-breaking storm event in late 2015. In October 2015, South Carolina experienced unprecedented rainfall resulting in significant flooding across the state. Dewberry discerned impacts to 10,000

Tuesday, July 5th, 2016

European Commission Launches Copernicus Accelerator

To speed up the user uptake of the European Union’s Earth observation programme Copernicus, the European Commission’s Copernicus Accelerator will now foster the development of commercial space applications and products. Tremendous amounts of data from space – especially the kind produced by Copernicus – present countless opportunities, and are becoming an increasingly common component of

Tuesday, July 5th, 2016

The National Weather Service to Study Weather Data from Harris Corporation’s Helios Digital Platform

The National Weather Service will study localized weather data collected by Harris Corporation’s (NYSE:HRS) Helios digital platform in its National Mesonet Program, which leverages multiple observation networks located throughout the United States.  Harris is providing the platform under a contract with Global Science and Technology, Inc. Highlights: Provides meteorologists with access to nation-wide network of

Friday, July 1st, 2016

FAA to Answer UAS Rule Questions at MAPPS Summer Conference

On the heels of Tuesday’s announcement by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) releasing its final Part 107 regulations governing small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS), MAPPS, the association of private sector surveying mapping and geospatial firms, today confirmed that  Randy Willis, Manager of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Emerging Technologies Team with oversight of Unmanned Aircraft will be

Friday, July 1st, 2016

Esri Fosters Industry Innovation with Unique Startup Program

Redlands, California —Esri, the world’s leading mapping platform company,continues to foster industry innovation and development of novel approaches to the world’s most difficult challenges. The company’s unique Startup Program enables the most promising emerging businesses to incorporate location analytics into their services and solutions. By providing access to Esri’s flagship ArcGIS platform at no cost, selected startups

Friday, July 1st, 2016

Aussie Innovation Changing How We Experience the Tour de France and Rio Olympics

Sports fans are about to get a whole new way of experiencing the upcoming Tour de France and select endurance sports at the Rio 2016 Olympics thanks to a start-up out of CSIRO’s Data61 group. This year, spectators through doarama.com will be able to access customised 3D interactive map visualisations of the routes which will

Friday, July 1st, 2016

Faster Access to More Video Formats in New Release of ArcGIS Full Motion Video

Redlands, California — Esri’s latest version of ArcGIS Full Motion Video (FMV) presents new capabilities to improve the way analysts and managers interact with videos. ArcGIS FMV allows users to view, organize, and analyze video from drones and other collection platforms.   This release includes a performance boost in playback and panning, and in zooming the video

Thursday, June 30th, 2016

Deimos Imaging selected by EARSC as the European Earth Observation Company of the Year

Deimos Imaging has been presented with the EARSC Company Achievement Award during the occasion of the pre General Assembly cocktail, held on 21st June in Brussels. EARSC has thereby recognised Deimos Imaging as the company to have made the most significant contribution to the development of the Earth Observation sector in Europe. The criteria used