Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
With deforestation accounting for 10% of greenhouse gas emissions, satellite observations have an important role to play in mapping this changing ecosystem. ESA is therefore going to great lengths to make sure a new sensor will live up to its promise. Deforestation and forest degradation release about the same amount of greenhouse gases into the
Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
Ordnance Survey is to create a Smart City standards-based technologies business framework for the European Union’s ESPRESSO project. ESPRESSO is being led by the Open Geospatial Consortium, and OS, working closely with key European bodies, will develop a strategic growth map for Smart Cities. Supported by PricewaterhouseCoopers, OS will also conduct analysis of existing and emerging
Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today the release of its GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) 2016 – the latest version of the company’s proven, high-performance, and scalable image processing solution. GXL technology provides significant improvements in automation, speed and efficiency by optimizing and distributing automated workflows. GXL
Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
Washington, D.C. – March 2, 2016 – TerraGo announced today the availability of TerraGo Edge On-Demand, which enables companies to start performing mobile inspections with custom forms on iOS and Android devices in a matter of minutes without requiring any on-premise software, hardware or long-term contracts. TerraGo Edge On-Demand was designed to help organizations react
Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
Palatine, IL – Water associations can use a free mapping tool to quickly show legislation at the state level for important water issues in an easy to understand, visually graphic format. Created by LegiNation, Inc., and part of the BillTrack50 suite of products, the legislation mapping tool was designed for members to immediately get an
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
A DLR delegation led by Pascale Ehrenfreund visited South Korea and Japan from 21 to 27 February. The delegation cultivated and expanded the close cooperation with partner organisations. Two important partnership agreements were signed during the visits. DLR ground station receives Korean satellite data On 23 February, DLR and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
The precursor laser technology to the EDRS SpaceDataHighway relayed a radar scan of the Brazilian coast to the DLR German Aerospace Center mere seconds after it was collected. It was then processed in a record-breaking 13 minutes, showing the surrounding ships just five minutes later. The information was gathered by Sentinel-1A over the South Atlantic
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
NORCROSS, Ga. and HUNTSVILLE, Ala., March 2, 2016 — Hexagon Geospatial has released a GeoMedia® data server for SAP HANA®, enabling enterprise business and geographic information system (GIS) users to run spatial and non-spatial business applications and processes within the SAP HANA platform. Developed by Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure with support from SAP, the native integration between
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
02 March 2016 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP) through the Geomatics Committee and IPIECA (the global oil and gas industry association for environmental and social issues) have issued, in cooperation with OGC and Resource Data, Inc., the OGC IOGP/IPIECA Recommended Practice for a
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
Just two weeks after launch, the latest Sentinel satellite has offered a taster of what it will provide for the EU’s Copernicus programme. Sentinel-3A’s very first image, captured at 14:09 GMT on 29 February, shows the transition from day to night over Svalbard, Norway. As well as showing the snow-covered archipelago, the image also details
