Saturday, February 13th, 2016
Harwell, Oxfordshire – Rezatec has been using cutting edge Earth Observation techniques to assist South West Water on a project to map and understand the condition of its peatlands. South West Water is working with partners in its Upstream Thinking Programme to improve drinking water quality and reduce treatment costs through improved catchment management around
Friday, February 12th, 2016
Leica Geosystems Inc. today announced that Aerodata Inc., based in Ann Arbor, MI, is the first company in North America to take delivery of the Leica DMC III airborne digital camera. The Leica DMC III adds cutting-edge digital imagery capture capabilities to the company’s well established film photogrammetry service, enabling Aerodata to increase the level
Friday, February 12th, 2016
Flooding from the sea represents a major threat to the UK; this was demonstrated most recently during the winter of 2013/14, when widespread flooding and damage occurred around much of the coastline. Whilst major advances have helped us to better assess flood risk from our rivers, the complex nature of the coastal environment has proved
Friday, February 12th, 2016
The signature of a €450 million contract to build two more satellites for the Sentinel-3 mission was celebrated by ESA and Thales Alenia Space of France at an event in Paris yesterday. Sentinel-3 is based on a constellation of two satellites to systematically measure Earth’s oceans, land, ice and atmosphere to monitor and understand large-scale
Friday, February 12th, 2016
Leicestershire, UK, — An aerial laser survey is helping the UK’s National Trust create a 3D map of historically important details of a Grade I listed park in Gloucestershire, England. Bluesky conducted the LiDAR survey to help the National Trust gain a better understanding of the significance of the extensive park and gardens at Lodge Park
Friday, February 12th, 2016
LONDON, United Kingdom — Many smaller housing associations could be missing out on the benefits of using geographic information simply because they are unable to justify employing a dedicated mapping expert. Recognising this, British GIS and web mapping software developer, Cadcorp, is introducing a service designed specifically for housing associations that manage less than 10,000 properties. The
Friday, February 12th, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS — East View Geospatial customers will now have access to increased satellite imagery frequency, and a growing archive offering the full suite of Planet Labs products. The agreement gives East View Geospatial additional resources to meet diverse customer needs, as more than 100 Planet Labs satellites are circling the earth, gathering data and recording
Friday, February 12th, 2016
Washington, D.C.— Today, TerraGo announced the City of Sebring, Florida, has deployed TerraGo Edge for utility asset inspection and management. With TerraGo Edge, Sebring has been able to cut costs, bring surveys in-house and improve response times for repairs. Like thousands of water utilities across the United States, the City of Sebring (FL) Utilities Department
Friday, February 12th, 2016
HydroloGIS, the company behind the open source projects Geopaparazzi and JGrasstools, has officially joined the gvSIG Association. What this small Italian based company brings to the Association, is the expertise of their environmental engineers in the fields of hydro-geomorphological analyses and risk mapping, as well as water management, processing of LiDAR data and digital field
Friday, February 12th, 2016
ARLINGTON, Va. – Brian Wynne, president and CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), today issued the following statement on the introduction of the Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization (AIRR) Act, a six-year reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The legislation was introduced by Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA)
