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Wednesday, May 4th, 2016

FAA Administrator Makes Two Major Drone Announcements

Speaking today at the AUVSI annual conference in New Orleans, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta announced the agency is establishing a broad-based advisory committee that will provide advice on key unmanned aircraft integration issues. He also announced plans to make it easier for students to fly unmanned aircraft as part of their coursework.   Huerta said the

Wednesday, May 4th, 2016

Blazegraph 2.1.0 Graph Database Now Enables Geospatial Searching and PubChem Data Processing

WASHINGTON, D.C.– May 4, 2016 – Blazegraph, creator of the industry’s first GPU-accelerated high-performance database for large graphs, today announced version 2.1.0, with significant updates that give users faster, easier access to key data sets, such as new support for processing geospatial coordinates and optimizing queries against the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s (NCBI) PubChem

Wednesday, May 4th, 2016

2016 Esri Business Summit

Redlands, California — As one of the fastest-growing parts of Esri’s business, the commercial sector continues to redefine how location information, knowledge, and insight are created, shared, and applied. Location strategy has transformed the way organizations approach problem solving, allowing them to achieve more with less and helping them successfully engage with customers within real

Wednesday, May 4th, 2016

OGC Requests Comment on Charter for Land Administration Domain Working Group

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Land Administration Domain Working Group (DWG). Worldwide, effective and efficient land administration is an ongoing concern. Only 40 countries around the world have mature land information systems. Of the remaining nations, only 10% have some land administration capability in

Wednesday, May 4th, 2016

INTERGEO Preview 2016

Karlsruhe — By taking “Smart City” as a key topic, INTERGEO 2016 is focussing on a multi-faceted issue that will shape the future. The preview of the leading international event for the geospatial community in Hamburg was attended by renowned experts from industry, science and public authorities. During their discussions, all were agreed that cities

Wednesday, May 4th, 2016

Drone World Expo and Commercial Drone Alliance Announce Strategic Partnership

SAN JOSE, CA, May 4, 2016 – On the heels of yesterday’s announcement about the formation of the Commercial Drone Alliance, Drone World Expo is pleased to announce the event has been selected by this new industry group as its official trade show. The 2nd annual Drone World Expo, the defining event for the commercial applications

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

IMAO: B66 Starts Operational Phase!

B66 is an innovating camera developed in-house by the R&D department of IMAO. This XXL camera dedicated to aerial data acquisition has outstanding progress in the last months. Pierre FAROUT, CEO of IMAO is proud to announce that the final stages of radiometric and geometric calibrations have been achieved to a complete success. This adventure

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

Join Boundless at FOSS4G-NA

Washington, D.C. –  Boundless is proud to support the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial North America conference (FOSS4G-NA). This regional conference strikes a balance between outreach, advocacy and technology that is not to be missed. Boundless is an open company, built on a foundation of open source, open collaboration, open standards, and open

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

NASA, AeroVironment and SmartC2 Team for Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management Flight Demonstration

NEW ORLEANS (XPONENTIAL 2016), MAY 3, 2016 – AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a world leader in small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), today announced that the company – in partnership with SmartC2, a leading provider of flight business management systems – will team with NASA on its Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) Technology Capability Levels (TCL) 2

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

Digital Map App Popular with Outdoor Enthusiasts Surpasses 1M Downloads Mark

TORONTO, May 3, 2016 — Avenza Systems Inc., the leading developer of cartographic software—such as MAPublisher for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager geospatial tools for Adobe Photoshop— is excited to announce that its PDF Maps app recently surpassed the one million downloads milestone. The market-leading consumer and enterprise mobile map app is free to download