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Tuesday, March 31st, 2015

PCI Geomatics Signs Strategic Education Alliance Agreement with Stellenbosch University

MARKHAM, Ontario, Canada—March 31, 2015 — PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today that it has signed a Strategic Education Alliance Agreement with Stellenbosch University, in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Monday, March 30th, 2015

World-Renowned Geospatial Expert AMS Geomatics Joins Xactware

LEHI, Utah, march 30, 2015 — AMS Geomatics, a provider of geospatial data, computer vision, machine learning, remote sensing, and mass visual information processing expertise, is now part of Xactware and will advance Xactware’s imagery strategy. Xactware is a Verisk Analytics (Nasdaq:VRSK) business.

Monday, March 30th, 2015

SmartGeoMetrics Launches Two New Firms From In-House Divisions

Houston TX, March 30, 2015 — SmartGeoMetrics launches two new firms from in-house divisions.

Monday, March 30th, 2015

Hexagon Announces New Segment Reporting

March 30, 2015 — Hexagon AB, a leading global provider of information technologies that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial enterprise applications, today announced a new segment reporting structure. As of Q1 2015, Hexagon will replace the current Measurement Technologies and Other Operations segments with Geospatial Enterprise Solutions and Industrial Enterprise Solutions.

Monday, March 30th, 2015

MapAction Responds to Floods in Chile

Saunderton, Bucks – March 30, 20015 —  MapAction has sent a team of two volunteers at the request of the United Nations and the Government of Chile, in response to severe flooding in the north of the country.

Friday, March 27th, 2015

MAPPS Members Promote UAV Before Wisconsin Legislature

March 27, 2015 — MAPPS members Kirk Contrucci of Ayres Associates, Inc., George Southard of Trimble Navigation Limited and Paul Braun of Continental Mapping Consultants delivered testimony yesterday to the Wisconsin General Assembly, presenting the merits and benefits of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) operations for surveying, mapping and geospatial applications.

Friday, March 27th, 2015

Ordnance Survey Reaches Open Data Milestone

March 27, 2015 — The number of times OS OpenData has been downloaded since its April 2010 launch has now exceeded the one million mark.

Friday, March 27th, 2015

SEVP Releases 2015 International Student Data, Launches Interactive Mapping tool

WASHINGTON, March 27, 2015 — “SEVIS by the Numbers,” a quarterly report on international students studying in the United States, was released Wednesday by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Friday, March 27th, 2015

LizardTech is Exhibiting at the Coastal GeoTools Conference

SEATTLE, Wash. — Mar. 27, 2015 — LizardTech®, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting at the Coastal GeoTools Conference. The conference is held at the North Charleston Convention Center in North Charleston, S.C., March 30-31, 2015.

Friday, March 27th, 2015

Blue Marble to Highlight the Global Mapper Lidar Module at SPAR International and CoastalGeoTools

Hallowell, Maine – March 27, 2015 —  Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) will be exhibiting at the SPAR International in Houston and CoastalGeoTools in Charleston, SC the week of March 30th highlighting Global Mapper’s Lidar Module automatic classification and feature extraction capabilities.  Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands