Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
As NASA continues to make progress on its new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), testing the hardware is becoming a crucial focal point at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Each structural test article must be carefully evaluated to verify its integrity and ensure it can withstand the loads it may
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO (Feb. 24, 2016) — Woolpert has been awarded a five-year contract to provide on-call geographic information system (GIS) services for San Francisco International Airport (SFO), it was announced today. Woolpert Project Director Mark Ricketson said the work could involve GIS data collection, compliance with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) airport GIS standards and implementing
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
RESTON, Va.— Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) today announced that DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions, selected Software AG’s Digital Business Platform to underpin their ability to provide off-the-shelf, planet-wide imagery for defense, intelligence, and commercial enterprises. DigitalGlobe provides 98% digital coverage of the earth, is the
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
February 24, 2016 — Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce two critical performance upgrades designed to once again give a leading edge to users of its Optech Lynx SG and Lynx SG-S mobile survey systems. The programmable scan speed of the Lynx SG and SG-S has been increased by 20% — pushing the already industry-leading
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
Vector tiles are a good way to manipulate your vector data through the internet. It helps users to display and use a large quantity of detailed vector data while maintaining excellent performance. Now the Cache Generator in the SuperGIS Desktop 10 beta version supports the generation of vector tiles. Simply assign the format as text/gml
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
Supergeo Technologies Inc., the global geospatial software and solution provider, together with Allwavetech Inc., Supergeo’s reseller in South Korea, announces that mapping company Taeyoung Information Systems has chosen Supergeo’s desktop software for GIS data processing. Taeyoung Information Systems is a Korean corporation focused on providing fine quality digital maps for public sector applications and has
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
New consortium led by Ordnance Survey secures Government funding to position the UK as a leader in connected and autonomous vehicles. A consortium of leading UK businesses has secured funding from Innovate UK to examine the data requirements needed to support autonomous navigation. The ground breaking ‘Atlas’ initiative will study data critical to the efficient operation
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
Redlands, California—February 23, 2016—The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) has transferred its web GIS application, Fire Globe, to the Esri platform. Responding to Google’s announcement about its deprecation of Google Earth Enterprise in January 2015, Esri partner Next Tier Concepts (NT Concepts) worked with NIFC to facilitate the move. Esri, the world leader in GIS,
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
CHANTILLY, Va. – Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has completed a transaction with OGSystems, LLC and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to transfer responsibility for the TASER prime contract to Ball Aerospace. The TASER (Total Application Services Enterprise Requirements) program provides high-end mission analysis, systems and software engineering, integration and IT services, for the NGA.
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
Redlands, California—February 23, 2016—Vricon, a leading provider of photo-realistic 3D mapping products and digital elevation models for the defense and security industries, is now a member of the Esri Partner Network. Vricon’s partnership with Esri, the market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, will help drive the growth and adoption of new technologies for
