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Friday, March 20th, 2015

Amazon Makes Landsat Data Even More Available

March 20, 2015 — As part of Amazon Web Services (AWS) commitment to White House’s Climate Data Initiative, the company announced today that 85,000 Landsat 8 scenes are now conveniently accessible in AWS Public Data Sets. 

Thursday, March 19th, 2015

Panoptes Systems Launches eBumper4 Obstacle Avoidance Product; Kicks Off Order Campaign

CAMBRIDGE, MA, March 18, 2015 — Panoptes Systems is excited to introduce the eBumper4, the first commercially-available, sonar-based, small drone obstacle avoidance system. Running into obstacles is one of the biggest hurdles to overcome for effective drone operation. eBumper4 helps solve this problem.

Thursday, March 19th, 2015

Airbus Defence and Space Selects Arianespace to Launch EDRS-C Satellite

March 19, 2015 — Airbus Defence and Space and Arianespace have reached an agreement for the launch of EDRS-C which is the second geostationary satellite of the SpaceDataHighway system. The launch is scheduled for the first quarter in 2017. EDRS-C will increase the system capacity and provide redundancy for the SpaceDataHighway. Its orbital position will

Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

Paolo E. Colombi Named Global Sales Lead for Harris Corporation’s Geospatial Solutions Business Area

March 18, 2015 — Harris is pleased to announce that Paolo E. Colombi has joined  Harris as Head of Global Sales for Geospatial Solutions.

Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

Higher Resolution Satellite Imagery Now a Highly Competitive Alternative to Aerial Imagery for Global Applications

Munich, March 18, 2015 — European Space Imaging announced today that they are now able to supply 30 cm imagery from the WorldView-3 satellite for European and North African customers wishing to use the most sophisticated very high-resolution satellite imagery on the market. This is made possible through their strong partnership with DigitalGlobe and the

Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

WorldDEM, the New-Class 3D Model, Now Available for More than 50% of the Global Landmass

March 18, 2015 — The availability of WorldDEM, the global pole-to-pole Digital Elevation Model, is continuously expanding and now extends to more than 50% of the Earth’s landmass. The 3D mapping database now covers large parts of Northern and Southern America, Western and Southern Africa, Middle East, Australia, Northern Europe and Asia. The newest additions

Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

BlackBridge Providing Precision Farm info for FarmLogs

March 18, 2015 — BlackBridge announced its partnership with FarmLogs, a farm management software and data-science company, to provide the U.S. with satellite imagery for crop health and field performance analysis.  

Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

Manchester Climate Instruments Take a Ride on NASA’s Global Hawk

March 18, 2015 — The unmanned aircraft, based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Centre, California, can fly at twice the height of Mount Everest and double the altitude of a commercial jet for more than a day at a time, travelling the equivalent of half of the Earth’s circumference in a single flight in an

Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

Improve Underground Utilities Management and Public Safety by 3D GIS

March 18, 2015 — Developed by Supergeo Technologies, SuperGIS 3D Earth Server is going to support underground utilities management. The breakthrough tech enables administrators to comprehend the distribution of underground utilities that cannot be seen in daily life and to arrange urban plans and make policies and decisions with full-scale perspective.

Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

GEOVISION Utilizes SuperGIS for Maritime and Land GIS Planning

March 18, 2015 — Supergeo Technologies Inc., the leading GIS software and solution provider, announces that GEOVISION, Nouvelle-Calédonie, selects cross-platform SuperGIS series products, SuperGIS Desktop, SuperSurv and SuperVeyor, to elevate its maritime and land data quality.