Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
Proteus, a provider of satellite derived mapping and geospatial services, has successfully delivered satellite derived bathymetry to Royal Haskoning DHV during April 2016. Proteus was commissioned by Royal Haskoning to deliver the data as part of a port design project in Saudi Arabia and to identify suitable and cost effective approaches to the port. The
Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the University of North Dakota (UND) announced today a three-year cooperative research and development agreement designed to explore the uses of unmanned aerial technology as well as mitigations for possible misuse. “This mission critical research will facilitate a better understanding of
Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
CAMBRIDGE, ON – exactEarth Ltd. (TSX: XCT) (the “Company”), the leading provider of Satellite AIS data services, has entered into a partnership agreement with EV Image Inc, a provider of GIS software and remote sensing data, to distribute exactEarth’s advanced Satellite AIS solutions in China. Under terms of the agreement, EV Image’s wholly-owned maritime subsidiary,
Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
May 9– The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is expanding the part of its Pathfinder Program that focuses on detecting and identifying unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) flying too close to airports. Today the FAA signed Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRDAs) with Gryphon Sensors, Liteye Systems Inc. and Sensofusion. The FAA will evaluate procedures and
Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
May 10, 2016 — Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce that it will showcase its latest airborne systems including the autonomous Optech Eclipse at the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s GEOINT symposium in Orlando, FL on May 15-18. As the world’s first autonomous airborne collection system for active and passive data, the Eclipse is a
Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
The 6th Digital Earth Summit, together with a celebration of the tenth anniversary of ISDE, will be held on 7-8 July 2016 in Beijing, China. With the theme of “Digital Earth in the Era of Big Data”, this Summit will offer a great opportunity for scientists, engineers, technologists, managers and other stakeholders to exchange scientific
Monday, May 9th, 2016
Redlands, California —Today, Esri announced it will be a sponsor and exhibitor at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 and Hackathon conference to be held in Brooklyn, New York, May 7 to 11, 2016. Esri staff will be on hand to provide information on the free, global Esri Startup Program, which helps qualifying developers, emerging businesses,
Monday, May 9th, 2016
NASA has selected an Arizona State University undergraduate student team for a $200,000 grant to conduct hands-on flight research, through its NASA Space Grant Undergraduate Student Instrument Program (USIP). The project, called “Phoenix,” is to design and build a small satellite, the size of a small loaf of bread, called a “3U CubeSat.” The satellite
Monday, May 9th, 2016
Most cloud-to-ground lightning (about eight of nine events) is actually a rapid series of strikes, pop-pop-pop, each lasting a few hundreds of millionths of a second, too fast for our eyes to separate into individual events. The other one in nine (give or take) creates a channel in the air, through which a lightning current
Monday, May 9th, 2016
GREENBELT, MD, May 9, 2016 – Orbit Logic announced today that their SpyMeSatGov iPhone app is now available on the Geoint App Store (https://apps.nga.mil) for any U.S. government or authorized user. SpyMeSatGov provides real-time imaging satellite awareness and on-demand access to EnhancedView commercial satellite imagery archives. The mobile app includes the ability to browse and
