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Thursday, December 3rd, 2015

PlanetiQ Signs Weather Satellite Launch Contract With India’s Antrix Corporation

BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 3, 2015 —  PlanetiQ has signed a contract with Antrix Corporation Limited, the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), for the launch of PlanetiQ’s first two weather satellites on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) during the fourth quarter of 2016. Ten more satellites are planned for launch in 2017

Thursday, December 3rd, 2015

Boundless Elevates Andrew Dearing as Acting CEO

New York, NY and Washington DC – Dec. 3, 2015 —  Boundless, the leading provider of open source geospatial software and services, today announced the elevation of Andrew Dearing to serve as its acting Chief Executive Officer. 

Thursday, December 3rd, 2015

Doors Open to Sentinel-2

December 3, 2015 — Online access to Sentinel-2A optical data is now available. The free, full and open data policy adopted for the Copernicus programme foresees access available to all users for the Sentinel data products, via a simple pre-registration.

Thursday, December 3rd, 2015

Bluesky Achieves Irish Aerial Survey Milestone

Leicestershire, UK, December 3 2015 -— Aerial mapping company Bluesky is celebrating a successful 2015 flying season in Ireland. Having captured nearly 10,000 square kilometres of high resolution aerial photography, Bluesky is well on the way to achieving its ambitious plans to capture high resolution aerial photography for the whole of Ireland. Bluesky is also pleased

Thursday, December 3rd, 2015

Merrick Awarded LAGF 2015 Land Management Project of the Year

COLORADO – December 3, 2015 — Merrick Mexico (Merrick), a subsidiary of Merrick & Company, in alliance with the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas (UAT) and the Government of the State of Tamaulipas, were awarded an International Geospatial Excellence Award in the Management Administration category given by the global organization Geospatial Media and Communications (GM+C), for the

Thursday, December 3rd, 2015

Maptitude: A Brand You Can Trust

Maptitude is a robust and easy-to-use professional mapping application that can be used within almost any industry. Caliper Corporation, founded in 1983, first released Maptitude in 1995 and the product has benefitted from two decades of user focused development to ensure that the software meets our customers’ needs.

Thursday, December 3rd, 2015

AGS Launches Geobadges

December 3, 2015 — As a 21st century learning society dedicated to the advancement of geographic thinking, understanding and knowledge across business, government academe, the social sector and education, the American Geographical Society is proud to have launched www.GeoBadges.org during Geography Awareness Week.  This independent micro-credentialing platform allows every organization that is committed to similar

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015

Making Life-Saving Weather Information Available to the Most

December 2, 2015 — As part of its long-standing working relationship with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), ECMWF is offering a reduced-fee licence to enable more national weather services, primarily those from developing and least developed countries, to benefit from its full range of web-based charts.

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015

New Remote Sensing Handbook Published

December 2, 2015 — A newly published, three-volume “Remote Sensing Handbook” is a comprehensive coverage of all remote sensing topics written by over 300 leading global experts. With 82 chapters, and more than 2000 pages, the handbook is a reference for every remote sensing student, professor, scientist, professional practitioner and expert. The technical handbook includes

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015

Hexagon Geospatial and Imagem Introduce the Hexagon Smart M.App at COP21 in Paris

NORCROSS, Ga., Dec. 2, 2015 — Hexagon Geospatial and our partner Imagem have been invited by the Institute for Environmental Security to present the Hexagon Smart M.App® at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris. At the annual COP, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol gather at the