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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016

Bluesky Sponsors UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Expansion in Kenya

Leicestershire, UK, 16 February 2016 – Aerial mapping company Bluesky is aiding the expansion of a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Kenya. Working with Cranfield University, the UK based aerial survey specialist will provide financial and technical support for the project that will use remotely sensed data, such as aerial photography, satellite imagery and 3D height

Tuesday, February 16th, 2016

Success of Nottingham City Council’s Open Data Initiative Supported by FME & 1Spatial

Cambridge, UK, 16th February 2016 — 1Spatial’s Certified FME consultants supported Nottingham City Council’s use of FME technology to reduce the response time of Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI) requests. Production of validated and redacted FOI responses for council spend data now takes just one hour per month, with significantly reduced manual input. The Council

Tuesday, February 16th, 2016

Loxley Chooses SimActive for Royal Thai Government Project

Montreal, Canada, February 16th, 2016 – SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce that Loxley PCL has purchased its Correlator3D™ for a major mapping project in Thailand. The software is used by its subsidiary, Data Mining Co., Ltd., to process tens of thousands of large-format images to generate high-quality orthomosaics.

Monday, February 15th, 2016

Headwall Introduces Ultra-Compact Data System for UAV Airborne Applications

Fitchburg, MA, February 15, 2016 — Headwall Photonics, Inc., the leading provider of spectral imaging solutions, has introduced a new, powerful data processing unit specifically designed for UAV airborne applications requiring sensor fusion. The small size and weight of HyperCore combined with its powerful data processing and high capacity storage connections offers the industry’s only processing

Monday, February 15th, 2016

OS Maps Out of this World

607 paper maps, the most detailed digital data picture of Great Britain, and now one red planet Using NASA open data, Ordnance Survey has created a one-off paper and digital map of the Martian landscape. OS, whose database of Great Britain has up to 500 million unique geographic features and is currently working with other countries on four

Saturday, February 13th, 2016

2016 URISA Vanguard Cabinet Announced

Des Plaines, IL, — URISA is pleased to announce the 2016 members of its Vanguard Cabinet. The Vanguard Cabinet (VC) is a URISA initiative (which debuted in 2011) to engage young GIS practitioners, increase their numbers in the organization, and better understand the concerns facing these future leaders of the GIS community.  The VC is an

Saturday, February 13th, 2016

HP DesignJet Printing Technology Helps New Jersey Search and Rescue Save Lives

New Jersey Search and Rescue (NJSAR), a team of more than 50 highly trained volunteers who conduct an average of 25 missing-person searches per year, installed an HP DesignJet T2500 Multifunction Printer (MFP) to produce large-format maps to aid in search-and-rescue missions. On call 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 365 days

Saturday, February 13th, 2016

Geographic Technologies Group – January Accomplishments

GOLDSBORO, N.C. – Geographic Technologies Group® (GTG®) has contracted and completed several projects for clients this January. Software: Hoffman Estate Parks District- Has acquired the Parks and Recreation GIS suite, GreenCityGIS. GreenCityGIS is built around the Esri GIS software suite and includes a park asset inventory, intranet applications, public facing applications, dashboards, and integration with

Saturday, February 13th, 2016

Intermap Executes US$175 Million Orion Platform Spatial Data Infrastructure Contract

DENVER, CO,  — Intermap Technologies Corporation (“Intermap” or the “Company”), (TSX: IMP), (ITMSF: BB), a leading provider of geospatial solutions, today announced that it has entered into definitive agreements (collectively, the “Contract”), pertaining to the previously announced letter of award (see June 22, 2015, September 29, 2015, and December 31, 2015, press releases) for the creation,

Saturday, February 13th, 2016

Aerojet Rocketdyne Continues New Year with Placement of Navigation Satellite into Orbit for U.S. Military

SACRAMENTO, Calif.,— Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AJRD), continues the New Year with the successful placement of the last in a block of 12 Global Positioning Systems (GPS IIF) navigation satellites into orbit for the U.S. Air Force. This last mission was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida