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Wednesday, January 20th, 2016

IGI Launches a New Version of its AEROoffice & TERRAoffice with Several New Handy Features

Kreuztal, January 20, 2016 — IGI launches the new AEROoffice & TERRAoffice software in version 5.4.50.  This new AEROoffice & TERRAoffice version can do coverage maps for scanning sensors. But there is more. For example, the sensor footprint can be adjusted via the setup page. It is possible to select and define if the sensor has

Wednesday, January 20th, 2016

Bluesky Revolutionises Aerial Photomap Production with Microsoft UltraMap

Leicestershire, UK, 20 January 2016 — Aerial mapping company Bluesky has revolutionised the production of aerial photography, reducing the time taken to process the terabytes of data captured by more than 75 percent. Following a major research project, the team at Bluesky’s Leicestershire production facility has implemented a Vexcel UltraMap system, which has allowed for the

Wednesday, January 20th, 2016

Esri Debuts Solutions to Help Organizations Compete in FCC Auction

Redlands, California—January 19, 2016 — Enterprises of all sizes can now gain a competitive edge in the 2016 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 600-MHz spectrum auction using Esri Solutions for Smart Spectrum Analysis.

Wednesday, January 20th, 2016

Eos Positioning Systems Announces RTK NTRIP App for Android

Terrebonne (Quebec), Canada, January 20, 2016 — Eos Positioning Systems introduced a comprehensive RTK NTRIP app for Android that works with its Arrow line of RTK GNSS receivers. An Arrow GNSS receiver combined with the NTRIP app turns your Android smartphone or tablet into a powerful data collector capable of recording 1cm accurate GIS data

Tuesday, January 19th, 2016

W3C and OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group publishes First Public Working Draft of its Best Practices

19 January 2016 — The W3C and OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of its Best Practices document for Spatial Data on the Web. This is a concerted attempt to bring together techniques used by the geospatial industry and Web technologists, especially those making use of Linked

Tuesday, January 19th, 2016

Indonesian City Gears up Smart City Roadmap with Smart Mapping Tech

The City of Depok, located in the West Java Province, Indonesia, has cemented its commitment to achieve smart city status by 2025 by leveraging state-of-the-art mapping technology to boost government efficiency and productivity.

Tuesday, January 19th, 2016

SuperSurv 3.3 Delivers the Best Mobile GIS Experience

SuperSurv 3.3 for Android, the best smart mobile GIS Application developed by Supergeo has just released an updated edition with new features and improvements! In this version, SuperSurv 3.3 not only enables users to flexibly apply the OGC Standard WMS Layers (support for 1.1.0, 1.1.1 and 1.3.0) as the basemap and reference data, but also

Tuesday, January 19th, 2016

OGC Seeks Public Comment on Candidate Geospatial User Feedback Conceptual Model and XML Encoding Standard

19 January 2016 — The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the following two candidate standards: OGC Geospatial User Feedback Conceptual Model (“GUF Model”) and the OGC Geospatial User Feedback XML encoding Standard.

Monday, January 18th, 2016

4DMapper Releases Asset Inspection Data Support

SYDNEY, NSW, AUSTRALIA, January 18, 2016 — 4DMapper integrates asset inspection data from drones or other devices and manages them in a custom, browser based, 3D geospatial environment with digital terrain and imagery.

Monday, January 18th, 2016

Launch of the First Satellite in the “SpaceDataHighway” Programme

EDRS-A, the first relay satellite in the SpaceDataHighway programme (also called EDRS), will be launched to geostationary orbit on 28 January 2016 (Baikonour time). The SpaceDataHighway will provide high speed laser communications in space of up to 1.8 Gigabit per second. This major programme, which cost nearly €500M to develop, is the result of a