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Monday, February 8th, 2016

Proba-V Eyes Bolivia’s Vanishing Lake

8 February 2016 — Monitoring Earth’s surface every day, ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite has had a ringside seat as the second largest lake in Bolivia gradually dried up. Lake Poopó has now been declared fully evaporated. The three 100-m resolution Proba-V images shown here were acquired on 27 April 2014, 20 July 2015 and 22 January

Monday, February 8th, 2016

OGC Invites Input to Guide Point Cloud Standards Work

8 February 2016 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)  Point Cloud Domain Working Group (Point Cloud DWG) formed late last year to assess the current state of standards and best practices in the management of point cloud data and to guide OGC activities in working with or developing standards for point cloud data interoperability, discovery, and

Monday, January 25th, 2016

Markus Neteler Joins the Management of Mundialis in Bonn

From March 2016 onwards, Dr. Markus Neteler, a prominent head of the Open Source GIS scene, will join the management board of mundialis GmbH & Co. KG in Bonn, Germany. Founded in 2015, mundialis combines remote sensing and satellite data analysis in the field of Big Data with Open Source WebGIS solutions.

Monday, January 25th, 2016

Navmii Appoints Steve Coast, OSM Founder, as Board Advisor

LONDON — Navmii, the free, smart navigation and traffic app, today announces that Steve Coast, the founder of the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSM), will join Navmii as a board advisor to further enhance its B2B mapping products and services. Navmii has created enhanced, automotive grade OSM maps using its map enhancement platform and billions of points

Friday, January 22nd, 2016

TerraGo and Eos Positioning Partnership Delivering Next-Generation GPS / GNSS Solutions for Customers Today

TerraGo, a pioneer of geospatial collaboration and enterprise mobility software, announces a technology partnership with Eos Positioning Systems that is driving collaboration across company product lines and already producing field-tested, customer-proven results. The combination of the TerraGo Edge mobile GPS data collection platform with the Eos Arrow line of sub-meter and centimeter accuracy receivers, delivers

Friday, January 22nd, 2016

OGC, InLocation Alliance and i-locate Project Seek Input on Use Cases and Benefits of Indoor Positioning

22 January 2016 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®), the Inlocation Alliance (ILA) and the i-locate Project invite you to contribute to a survey on use cases and benefits of indoor positioning.

Friday, January 22nd, 2016

Aerial Services Purchases New LiDAR Sensor and Camera

As the advances in LiDAR technology and applications continue to drive a rapid increase in market value, Aerial Services has been committed to bringing those new capabilities to our clients. Beginning in 2012, with the purchase of a high-density corridor scanner and now in 2016 with the purchase of a Leica ALS70 Airborne LiDAR Sensor

Friday, January 22nd, 2016

MACOM Announces Teaming Agreement with Northrop Grumman for Radar Deployments

LOWELL, Mass. — M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. (“MACOM”) (NASDAQ: MTSI), a leading supplier of high-performance analog RF, microwave, millimeterwave and photonic semiconductor products, today announced a teaming agreement that establishes MACOM as Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE: NOC) exclusive teaming partner for the development and manufacture of radar arrays that use MACOM’s active antenna technology

Thursday, January 21st, 2016

Brazil and Mexico: Up-to-Date Geodata for Business and Risk Analyses

Bruchsal, Germany, January 21, 2016 — GfK has released new maps for Brazil and Mexico. The digital maps of administrative and postal regions comprise the foundation for location-based analyses, or geomarketing, for companies across all industries.

Thursday, January 21st, 2016

Blue Marble Geographics Announces Public Training Class Schedule for 2016

Hallowell, Maine – January 21, 2016 — Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) today announced the list of cities for its public training classes for 2016. Covering all aspects of both the Geographic Calculator and Global Mapper, these hands-on instructor-led programs have proven to be an indispensable asset for countless users hoping to get the most out of