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Tuesday, May 24th, 2016

Indonesian GPS Provider – CV. Gunapris Elecom Selects SuperPad as GIS Solution

Supergeo announces that its leading GIS software on Windows and Windows Mobile OS – SuperPad was chosen by Indonesian GPS instrument provider CV. Gunapris Elecom as the solution for spatial data collection and processing. Headquartered in greater Jakarta, CV. Gunapris Elecom was founded in 2006 as a professional supplier of GPS devices and surveying instruments.

Tuesday, May 24th, 2016

Shih Hsin University Won SuperGIS Youth Award 2016

The team from Shih Hsin University outperformed other competitors and won SuperGIS Youth Award 2016 by applying both desktop and web-based GIS to develop a tourism solution. SuperGIS Youth Award is a countrywide event in Taiwan and has been held annually for years by Supergeo. Its aim is to encourage talented youths from various fields

Tuesday, May 24th, 2016

Earth-i and GeoBusiness: A Match Made in Britain

24 May 2016 — Earth-i Ltd (www.earthi.space), the British innovative distributor of earth-imaging and data services is today exhibiting the capabilities of the DMC3 / TripleSat satellite constellation at the GeoBusiness Conference and Exhibition in London. Visitors to London’s Business Design Centre, for what has quickly become the must-attend show for the British and International geospatial

Tuesday, May 24th, 2016

Cadcorp Provides Support for Latest OS OpenData Products and OS MasterMap Styling

Stevenage, UK, 24 May 2016 – British GIS software developer, Cadcorp, has provided software support for three free-to-use data products from the national mapping agency of Great Britain, Ordnance Survey: OS Open Map – Local; OS Open Roads; and OS Open Rivers. Support for the new data products was added in a recent service release

Monday, May 23rd, 2016

NASA Increases Harris Corporation Space Communications Network Services Contract Ceiling by $384 Million

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2016 – NASA has awarded Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) two 1-year options, adding $384 million of contract ceiling, to continue supporting the Space Communications Network Services (SCNS) program.  The award was received during the third quarter of Harris’ fiscal 2016.   Harris will continue to support SCNS, which provides most of the communications

Monday, May 23rd, 2016

ISDE9 Proceedings Now Online

We are pleased to announce that the Proceedings of the 9th ISDE Symposium (Halifax, Canada, 2015) have now been published online by IOP Science Publishing. They are published as Volume 34(1) (2016) in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science — an open access, peer-reviewed journal. Specifically, the ISDE9 Proceedings are located at http://iopscience.iop.org/issue/1755-1315/34/1 . The 43 papers are listed alphabetically by

Monday, May 23rd, 2016

Symposium Explores the Critical Role of Earth Observations Across Africa

Geneva – More than two dozen African nations committed to mobilizing the Earth observation community to contribute to the implementation of the Africa Space Policy and Strategy, adopted by African Heads of State at the 26th African Union Summit held in January, 2016. That was one of the primary outcomes of the first Symposium of

Monday, May 23rd, 2016

U.S. Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office Evaluating New AeroVironment Tether Eye Tethered UAS for ISR and Security

TAMPA, FL.— At Special Operations Forces Industry Conference, May 23, 2016 – AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a world leader in unmanned aircraft systems, today announced the United States Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO) is evaluating the company’s new tethered unmanned aircraft system, named Tether Eye™, for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR) and security applications.  The

Friday, May 20th, 2016

2016 Digital Enterprise Show to Feature Keynote from Esri’s Chris Cappelli on Advancing Digital Strategy through GIS Technology

Redlands, California — Chris Cappelli, Esri’s director of global sales, will be a featured keynote speaker at this year’s Digital Enterprise Show (DES), to be held in Madrid, Spain, May 24–26, 2016. Cappelli will discuss how geographic information system (GIS) technology provides organizations with a powerful location-based platform that automates, integrates, and improves processes from

Friday, May 20th, 2016

Sentinel-1A Spots Potential Oil Slick from Missing EgyptAir Plane

The Sentinel-1A radar satellite has detected a potential oil slick in the eastern Mediterranean Sea – in the same area where EgyptAir flight MS804 disappeared early yesterday morning on its way from Paris to Cairo. The image was acquired by Sentinel-1A yesterday at 16:00 GMT (18:00 CEST). ESA has given information related to the image