Monday, December 21st, 2015
The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Small Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) registry is expected to go live during the day on December 21. Please check the agency’s home page at http://www.faa.gov/ for updates.
Friday, December 18th, 2015
December 18, 2015 — The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) new fact sheet on state and local regulation of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) provides information for states and municipalities considering laws or regulations addressing UAS use. The document outlines FAA’s safety reasons for federal oversight of aviation and airspace, and explains federal responsibility in this area.
Friday, December 18th, 2015
December 18, 2015 — The report titled, ‘Future Trends in geospatial information management: the five to ten year vision’, is the second edition of the international report, following on from its first publication in 2011.
Friday, December 18th, 2015
December 18, 2015 — The pace of deploying Europe’s own satellite navigation system continued to increase with today’s launch of the latest pair of Galileo satellites, doubling the number of satellites in space within nine months.
Friday, December 18th, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO, December 18, 2015 — While some dream of the day that aerial drones deliver their online purchases, scientists are using the technology today to deliver data that was never available before.
Thursday, December 17th, 2015
Redlands, California—December 17, 2015 — Esri and NASA are collaborating to improve access to imagery and raster data stored in the cloud using a combination of two technologies, Meta Raster Format (MRF) and Limited Error Raster Compression (LERC). MRF is an Open raster format originally designed at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) to optimize
Thursday, December 17th, 2015
December 17, 2015 (Portland, Maine) — Dave Gallo, Oceanographer and Director of Special Projects at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will deliver the keynote “Beyond Titanic: The Pursuit of Tactical Oceanography” at International LiDAR Mapping Forum on Monday, February 22, 2016 in Denver. Dr. Gallo has been at the forefront of ocean exploration for over 25 years
Thursday, December 17th, 2015
MORGAN HILL, Calif., Dec. 17, 2015 —The mobile mapping market is poised for remarkable growth, thanks to breakthroughs in LiDAR technology, a host of new applications, and the economics of the business – so said Erich Smidt, European Sales Director for Velodyne LiDAR, during a keynote presentation at “Capturing Reality,” the 3D, Laser Scanning &
Thursday, December 17th, 2015
December 17, 2015 — The national parks of the United States are often compared to, and indeed inspire, works of art. In fact, the USGS has been regularly contributing new and updated works of art for the national parks—maps.
Thursday, December 17th, 2015
December 17, 2015 — Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the OGC® Coverage Implementation Schema(abbreviated as “CIS”). This candidate OGC Standard complements the OGC Abstract Topic 6 Standard (which is identical to ISO 19123) with a concrete coverage model whose implementations are conformance testable and, hence, are interoperable. ISO has expressed interest to
