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Thursday, April 2nd, 2015

University of Waterloo Students Win the Esri Canada GIS Centres of Excellence App Challenge

TORONTO – April 2, 2015 — Esri Canada congratulates Jonathan Van Dusen, Majuratan Sadagopan and Shanqi Zhang from the University of Waterloo for winning the Esri Canada GIS Centres of Excellence in Higher Education App Challenge.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2015

Optech at 1st International Congress of the Mediterranean Union of Surveyors in Morocco

April 2, 2015 — Optech is pleased to announce that its partner Prime GPS Afrique will host Optech staff at its booth during the 1st International Congress of the Mediterranean Union of Surveyors to be held in Marrakech, Morocco, on April 17-18.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2015

Camber Corporation Forms Unmanned Systems Innovation, LLC

April 2, 2015 — Camber Corporation announces today the establishment of Unmanned Systems Innovation (USI), LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary.  The creation of USI supports Camber’s focus on expanding its broad capabilities in the unmanned systems market.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2015

Helinet Aviation Receives Comprehensive FAA Certificate of Waiver or Authorization (COA) for Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Flights

LOS ANGELES, April 2, 2015 —  Helinet Aviation, a diversified flight services company, announced today it has received a comprehensive FAA Certificate of Waiver or Authorization (COA) for commercial, unmanned aircraft system (UAS) flights. The COA provides Helinet with pre-approved authorization to shoot drone aerials on broadcast and motion picture sets without the need to apply for permission

Thursday, April 2nd, 2015

DARPA Embarks on an Agile “System-of-Systems” Technology Approach to Help Enable U.S. Power Projection Capabilities in Highly Contested Environments

April 2, 2015 — For decades, the United States has successfully countered the threats of competitor nations by harnessing advanced technologies to create exceedingly robust and capable military platforms. But as advanced technologies have become more readily available to adversaries on commercial markets, the Nation’s focus on ever more complex weapons systems has become not

Thursday, April 2nd, 2015

TanDEM-X Image of the Month – Changes in Permafrost Landscapes

April 2, 2015 — Earth’s cryosphere is particularly susceptible to climate change. Rising temperatures are certain to result in profound and widespread changes at high latitudes, where the ground remains frozen all year.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2015

Golden State Quads Add Trails

April 2, 2015 — Several of the 2,798 new US Topo quadrangles for California now display public trails along with segments of the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail. Also the new maps now show improved data layers such as public land survey information, map symbol redesign, enhanced railroad information and new road source data. Some

Thursday, April 2nd, 2015

Majority of Forested Land Carved up by Human Development, Says New Study Involving CU-Boulder

April 2, 2015 — Seventy percent of forested lands remaining in the world are within a half mile of the forest edge, where encroaching urban, suburban or agricultural influences can cause any number of harmful effects, according to a new study involving scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Wednesday, April 1st, 2015

Blaze Terra Demonstrates Advantages in Accessing Acute3D High Resolution City Models

April 1, 2015 — Eternix Ltd., leading provider of next-generation software for GIS visualization and editing in 3D, demonstrates the benefits of accessing popular 3D mapping data, such as that created by Acute3D. Rapid 3D mapping technologies use automatic 3D photogrammetry to create full 3D models of entire cities, outputting heavy, high resolution files, containing

Wednesday, April 1st, 2015

Arizona State Forestry Division to Develop Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal

Richmond, VA., April 1, 2015 — The Arizona State Forestry Division recently selected Timmons Group, a leader in innovative geospatial solutions, to develop their Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal (WRAP).