Thursday, October 29th, 2015
October 29, 2015 — David Willetts, former UK Minister for Science and Universities, has joined the Board at Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) as a non-Executive Director.
Thursday, October 29th, 2015
Dundee & London, UK, October 29, 2015 — eeGeo, the UK-based 3D mapping company, today launched its geospatial meta-mapping platform which enables organisations to build interactive mobile applications to deliver content and location-based information. The eeGeo platform enables businesses across a range of sectors to easily visualise complex data sets on a geospatially accurate representation of the
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
October 28, 2015 — Registration for ESA’s fifth Living Planet Symposium has just closed, reaching a record of nearly 2700 abstract entries.
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
WESTMINSTER, Colo., October 28, 2015 — DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions, today announced an agreement with Intelescope Solutions to enable global-scale satellite imagery data for the forestry industry.
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
WOBRUN, Mass., Oct. 28, 2015 — Scientific Systems Company, Inc. (SSCI) announces it has been awarded a contract from the Defense Applied Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop autonomous visual control systems for small unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) operating in cluttered outdoor and indoor environments without GPS or human operator assistance.
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
October 28, 2015 — Volunteers are being recognized and earning custom badges for making significant contributions to the U.S. Geological Survey’s ability to provide accurate and timely information to the public. Using crowdsourcing techniques, the USGS project known as The National Map Corps (TNMCorps) encourages volunteer “citizen scientists” to collect manmade structure data such as
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
Paris, Washington D.C., Montreal, Yokohama, October 28, 2015 — According to Euroconsult’s newly released report, Government Space Programs: Strategic Outlook, Benchmarks & Forecasts, a new growth cycle in government space spending is expected to start and average 2.1% over the next ten years worldwide, reaching $81.4 billion by 2024.
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
Saunderton, Bucks: October 27, 2015 — MapAction is deploying volunteers to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offices in Athens, Belgrade and Geneva to support the coordination of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean. Alongside this, MapAction will be working with The Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) looking at the potential evolution of the situation
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
Portland, ME, October 27, 2015 —Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) and collaborators announce the results of a three-year, multi-state project that fills significant ecological data gaps on bird, marine mammal, and sea turtle distributions and movements. The goal of this project, one of the largest of its kind ever conducted, was to improve the understanding of
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
WASHINGTON, October 27, 2015 — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers NASA a framework for prioritizing satellite observations and measurements of Earth based on their scientific value.