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Monday, October 26th, 2015

BlackArch Partners Advises BlackBridge Corp. on Sale to Planet Labs Inc.

CHARLOTTE, NC, October 26, 2015 — BlackArch Partners (“BlackArch”) is pleased to announce the sale of BlackBridge Corp. (“BlackBridge” or the “Company”) to Planet Labs Inc. (“Planet”).  BlackBridge, headquartered in Lethbridge, Canada, with operations in Berlin, Germany, is a vertically integrated global provider of products and services across the geospatial imaging value chain. 

Monday, October 26th, 2015

Celebrating 15 years

October 26, 2015 — The International Charter Space and Major Disasters celebrates 15 years of free access to the best-available satellite images.

Monday, October 26th, 2015

LizardTech to Exhibit at Texas GIS Forum

SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 26, 2015 — LizardTech®, the creator of MrSID® and provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced today it will exhibit at the Texas GIS Forum in booth number 114 Oct. 26-29, 2015 at the Commons Learning Center at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus in Austin, TX.

Friday, October 23rd, 2015

OGC Calls for Participation in Major Interoperability Testbed (Testbed 12)

October 23, 2015 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) in the OGC Testbed 12 Interoperability Testbed.

Friday, October 23rd, 2015

MediaMapper Mobile App Displayed at IGAPP

FORT COLLINS, CO, October 23, 2015 — Red Hen Systems, LLC, announced that Bruce Donaldson, the Company’s Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Manager participated on a panel at the Innovative GEOINT Application Provider Program (IGAPP) in St. Louis on October 20, 2015. Donaldson gave a presentation about MediaMapper Mobile, an Android app with extensive utility for

Friday, October 23rd, 2015

Ashcloud Apocalypse Uses Threat of a Mega Volcano to Teach Disaster-Risk Mapping to Students

October 23, 2015 — Giant cracks appear in the streets of London. Lava shoots from the fissures. Cars topple near Big Ben. Fires break out. “First signs of a mega eruption,” announces a promotional video for Ashcloud Apocalypse, an online disaster-risk mapping exercise that thousands of students in the United Kingdom and around the world

Friday, October 23rd, 2015

OS Data Gives Reality to a Virtual World

October 23, 2015 — OS follows up its Minecraft map success to make a virtual Ben Nevis for Oculus and cardboard. The spectacular setting of Ben Nevis provides the backdrop for an Oculus Rift game created by Ordnance Survey developers, in which players race against the clock to find a hidden trig pillar.

Friday, October 23rd, 2015

MAPPS Takes Seat on FAA UAS Registration Task Force

October 23, 2015 (Reston, VA) — MAPPS, the only national association of private sector firms in the surveying, spatial data and geographic information systems field in the United States and a leader on the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the geospatial field, today announced it has accepted an invitation from the Federal Aviation Administration

Friday, October 23rd, 2015

Aerial Mapping Pioneer Bluesky Supports Clean Energy Campaign

Leicestershire, UK, October 23, 2015 –— Aerial mapping company Bluesky is backing a charity’s campaign to protect the subsidies for clean energy projects. Under recent Government proposals, changes to the Feed-in-Tariffs (FiTs) for wind, solar and hydro power will be dramatically cut and eventually phased out. The ‘Keep FiTs’ campaign, by climate change charity 10:10, is

Thursday, October 22nd, 2015

Dewberry Selected to Collect Lidar Data for Hawaii’s Big Island

Fairfax, VA, October 22, 2015 — Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, has been contracted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Office for Coastal Management to collect and deliver topographic elevation point data derived from multiple return light detection and ranging (lidar) measurements for the Pelekane Watershed on Hawaii’s Big Island.