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Thursday, April 21st, 2016

Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure Releases Intergraph Damage Assessment for Electric Utility Companies

Huntsville, Alabama, April 21, 2016 – Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure has released Intergraph® Damage Assessment, an application that enables end-to-end automation of the entire post-storm damage assessment process. Intergraph Damage Assessment can be used for simple outage patrols, as well as in times of devastating storm damage, making it an everyday solution that maximizes return

Thursday, April 21st, 2016

Leica Geosystems Wins 2 Red Dot Design Awards

Heerbrugg, Switzerland – Leica Geosystems, industry leader in measurement technology, is proud to announce two products have been honoured with the prestigious Red Dot Design Award for 2016: the Pegasus:Backpack and the Lino LP41 multi-line laser. With entries from 57 nations and more than 5,200 products being judged, these two Leica Geosystems products stood out

Thursday, April 21st, 2016

Bluesky 3D Photomaps Help Manage City’s Green Space

Leicestershire, UK — The Parks Trust, the charitable organisation responsible for parks and green spaces in Milton Keynes, UK, is using a range of highly detailed geographic datasets from Bluesky to manage its portfolio of property and open spaces. Deployed in the Trust’s GIS, the high resolution aerial photography, detailed laser mapped height models and National Tree Map

Thursday, April 21st, 2016

Call for Speakers Open for North America’s Largest Commercial Drone Show

MELVILLE, N.Y.— BZ Media LLC announced today an open call for speakers for InterDrone™ The International Drone Conference & Exposition being held at the Paris Las Vegas Sept 7-9. The total number of classes, panels and keynotes is increasing in 2016 by 20% to more than 120 sessions overall. InterDrone 2015 was the largest dedicated

Thursday, April 21st, 2016

GeoSolve Launches New and Improved Website

St. Cloud, MN — GeoSolve, a GIS services provider in Oregon, is pleased to announce the launch of a new and improved website  www.geosolveinc.com The newly designed website offers quick and easy access to essential information, offering visitors a better understanding of the GIS services GeoSolve offers. GeoSolve’s new website will be updated on a

Wednesday, April 20th, 2016

Sentinel-1B Launch Event at ESRIN

Live from ESA’s ESRIN centre for Earth observation in Frascati, Italy: follow the event to celebrate the launch of the second satellite for the ‘radar vision’ mission, Sentinel-1. The second in the two-satellite mission, Sentinel-1B, is set for launch from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 22 April at 21:02 GMT (23:02 CEST). During the

Wednesday, April 20th, 2016

Drone World Expo Partners with Leading Industry Groups to Bring Stakeholders to November Event

SAN JOSE, CA, April 20, 2016 – Drone World Expo has announced partnerships with several leading groups whose members are commercial users, or are enabling commercial use of drones including the Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA), American Farm Bureau Federation, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and MAPPS. Drone World Expo will be

Wednesday, April 20th, 2016

Topcon and RDO Announce Expansion to GNSS Network Service

LIVERMORE, Calif.  – Topcon Positioning Group and RDO Integrated Controls announce an expansion of the TopNETlive GNSS network service across Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. The increased availability is the result of a cooperative effort between Topcon and RDO Integrated Controls. TopNETlive is designed to deliver high-accuracy GNSS correction data to rovers for surveying,

Wednesday, April 20th, 2016

Agenda Announced for Drones and Energy Summit, Co-Located at AUVSI’s 2016 XPONENTIAL in New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana –  UAS Magazine announced this week the preliminary agenda for the UAS Energy In Sight Summit, a one-day event co-located at the world’s largest unmanned vehicle event, AUVSI’s XPONENTIAL. Produced by UAS Magazine, the UAS Energy In Sight Summit, at AUVSI’s XPONENTIAL, May 4, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in

Wednesday, April 20th, 2016

QGIS 2.14.1 is Now Available

Washington D.C  –  Boundless, the world leader in commercially supported open source GIS software, announces that QGIS 2.14.1, the latest release of the premier open-source desktop GIS technology, is now available for download here.  This is a significant update, comprising many new features and capabilities. The Boundless 2.14.1 QGIS release includes all the core plugins of the