Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
Vancouver, May 3, 2016 — UrtheCast Corp. (TSX:UR) (“UrtheCast” or the “Company”) today announces that it has successfully completed prototype hardware testing of the principal core enabling elements of our ground-breaking Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology. This includes the digital sensor electronics, which is the “heart” of the SAR instrument, and the dual-frequency, multi-aperture SAR antenna in
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the selection of Michael Watkins as the new director of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. “President Thomas Rosenbaum and his leadership team at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have made an outstanding choice in naming Dr. Michael M. Watkins
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
ESA and Airbus Defence and Space UK signed a €229 million contract on 29 April to build the next Earth Explorer: the Biomass satellite, due to begin its mission in 2021. The satellite will provide global maps of how much carbon is stored in the world’s forests and how this stock is changing over time,
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
Heerbrugg, Switzerland, 3 May 2016 – Leica Geosystems, industry leader of measurement technology, announced today the Leica Viva GS16 and updated Leica Captivate and SmartWorx Viva software. The GS16 is a truly self-learning GNSS receiver, able to automatically select the optimal combination of GNSS signals and stay connected with or without reference links. This new
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
An international exhibition and scientific Congress in Siberia, Russia was organized, standing as an international platform for presenting significant scientific outlook and for academic exchange in the domain of geospatial information for 12 years. On 20-22 April, this activity Interexpo GEO-Siberia-2016, was held in Novosibirsk, aiming to foster discussions among policymakers and researchers about the
Monday, May 2nd, 2016
PITTSBURGH and MORGAN HILL, Calif. – Real Earth, the pioneer in real-time 3D mapping and localization, secured first place in Microsoft’s Indoor Localization Competition recently held in Vienna, Austria. Real Earth achieved the top ranking through their algorithms embedded in their STENCIL product. It was the only product to perform real time indoor localization without
Monday, May 2nd, 2016
NEW ORLEANS (XPONENTIAL 2016), MAY 2, 2016 – AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a world leader in small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), today unveiled its new Mantis i45 electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) gimbal payload designed for AeroVironment Puma™ AE (All Environment) small unmanned aircraft systems – for both commercial and military applications. The company made the announcement at
Monday, May 2nd, 2016
Plans are rapidly taking shape for the 15th Global Spatial Data Infrastructure World Conference (GSDI 15). With the Abstract submission deadline extended to 1 June 2016, don’t miss your chance to participate! GSDI appreciates it is a busy time of the year for professional staff and academics alike, so the conference program committee is maximizing
Friday, April 29th, 2016
Redlands, California — Earlier this week, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and Esri announced the featured speakers at the annual GIS for a Sustainable World Conference, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, May 2 to 4. Conference speakers will explore the ways geographic information system (GIS) technology can tackle global issues—such
Thursday, April 28th, 2016
Victoria, BC., Canada, April 28, 2016 — Echosec Systems Ltd., will be sharing their industry leading social media search solution at the 2016 GEOINT Symposium, May 15-18 at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. Hosted and produced by USGIF, the annual GEOINT Symposium is the nation’s largest gathering of industry, academia,
