Friday, February 12th, 2016
Herndon, Virginia —The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is now accepting applications for its 2016 Scholarship Program. Scholarship applications can be found at USGIF’s website and are due no later than April 22, 2016. The program provides promising students studying the geospatial sciences or a related field with scholarship awards to further the advancement
Friday, February 12th, 2016
LONDON, United Kingdom — Many smaller housing associations could be missing out on the benefits of using geographic information simply because they are unable to justify employing a dedicated mapping expert. Recognising this, British GIS and web mapping software developer, Cadcorp, is introducing a service designed specifically for housing associations that manage less than 10,000 properties. The
Friday, February 12th, 2016
Hallowell, Maine — Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce that the list of presenters for the company’s 2016 User Conference Road Show has been released. Representing a diverse cross-section of Global Mapper and Geographic Calculator users, these speakers exemplify and illustrate the use of Blue Marble’s geospatial technology in wide variety of applications. Blue
Friday, February 12th, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS — East View Geospatial customers will now have access to increased satellite imagery frequency, and a growing archive offering the full suite of Planet Labs products. The agreement gives East View Geospatial additional resources to meet diverse customer needs, as more than 100 Planet Labs satellites are circling the earth, gathering data and recording
Friday, February 12th, 2016
Washington, D.C.— Today, TerraGo announced the City of Sebring, Florida, has deployed TerraGo Edge for utility asset inspection and management. With TerraGo Edge, Sebring has been able to cut costs, bring surveys in-house and improve response times for repairs. Like thousands of water utilities across the United States, the City of Sebring (FL) Utilities Department
Friday, February 12th, 2016
SAN JOSE, CA, – Following the successful launch of Drone World Expo, the defining event for commercial drone applications, the organizers have been busy planning for the second annual event scheduled for November 15-16, 2016, once again at the San Jose Convention Center. The inaugural Drone World Expo welcomed 2,120 people from 29 countries to
Friday, February 12th, 2016
HydroloGIS, the company behind the open source projects Geopaparazzi and JGrasstools, has officially joined the gvSIG Association. What this small Italian based company brings to the Association, is the expertise of their environmental engineers in the fields of hydro-geomorphological analyses and risk mapping, as well as water management, processing of LiDAR data and digital field
Friday, February 12th, 2016
ARLINGTON, Va. – Brian Wynne, president and CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), today issued the following statement on the introduction of the Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization (AIRR) Act, a six-year reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The legislation was introduced by Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA)
Friday, February 12th, 2016
Des Plaines, IL , —The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), in partnership with the American Public Health Association (APHA), invites abstract submissions for the 2016 GIS and Health Symposium. The theme for this year’s Symposium is “Mapping the Way to Healthy Communities”. The event will take place June 1-3, 2016 in Washington, DC.
Friday, February 12th, 2016
Washington, DC and Raleigh, NC — In support of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)/Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) tenBoma project to develop a counter-wildlife crime intelligence fusion center, Agile Analytics Group and Boundless today announced they are working together to help build a geospatial data analysis platform, known as the “Boma”, to track poaching
