Sunday, August 4th, 2013
From its headquarters in a Longmont industrial park, DigitalGlobe is quietly saving lives, preventing environmental contamination and advising national governments. The company’s recently completed merger with GeoEye has moved DigitalGlobe, well-known in the aerospace and technology fields for its global satellite imagery, into a new realm of worldwide information — fully realized in late July
Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
Exprodat, the oil and gas services, software and training supplier, has created Exprodat Offsite; a cloud-based service that allows oil and gas companies to benefit from Exprodat’s expertise in managing spatial data, no matter where they are in the world.
Monday, July 22nd, 2013
On 28-29 September 2013 the first practical conference “Using GIS and Remote Sensing for Conservation of Nature” with international participation of the environmental GIS community will take place in Russia. Specialists of ScanEx Research and Development Center will participate in the conference and share their experience of using satellite imagery and space monitoring technologies to
Wednesday, July 10th, 2013
Whenever there’s a disaster anywhere in the world, DigitalGlobe deploys satellites to capture images. But the Moore tornado was one of the first tests of Tomnod’s crowdsourcing system post-acquisition. Immediately after the disaster, DigitalGlobe put a call out on social media channels for volunteers to analyze the damage. Anyone who accepted the challenge was asked
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Whether they’ve been making maps for 20 years or two weeks, just like any designer, cartographers need inspiration when starting their latest project. Inspiration can come from many places and take many forms. Here at Ordnance Survey we use a range of resources and we want to share some of them with you. In this
Thursday, March 14th, 2013
Amber Case ’08 has been added to the Lewis & Clark Board of Trustees, the youngest trustee in the college’s history. Case will play an influential role in decision-making as a full trustee—she is not filling a young alumni seat.
Thursday, February 14th, 2013
What are the implications for scientific researchers in the geospatial realm? Scientists are normally concerned with how the Earth works. But the dominating force of humanity on the Earth begs the question of how the Earth should look, especially with regard to landscape architecture, urban planning, land use planning and zoning, and ocean/coastal management. These
Monday, January 28th, 2013
SSTL has been awarded the contract by the National Space Organization (NSPO) in Taiwan for the design and manufacture of up to twelve satellite platforms for the FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 constellation. The contract was awarded in an open international competition, with SSTL providing the most cost-effective solution.
Friday, January 18th, 2013
On Thursday, 17 January 2013, torrential rain has caused massive flooding in the Jakarta Capital Region, Indonesia, virtually shutting down the city. Google will continue to update this page with maps, links, and other useful resources. Read More
Thursday, January 10th, 2013
GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ:GEOY), a leading source of geospatial information and insight, announced that it has received antitrust clearance from the U.S. Department of Justice in connection with its pending combination with DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI).
