Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
October 7, 2015 — The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has entered into a Pathfinder agreement with CACI International Inc. to evaluate how the company’s technology can help detect Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the vicinity of airports.
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
October 7, 2015 — Regrowth of trees explains why grasslands in western Africa known as the Sahel have recovered after devastating droughts in the 1970s and 1980s, according to South Dakota State University professor Niall Hanan. The Sahel is a semiarid region with grasslands and scattered trees sandwiched between the Sahara Desert to the north
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2015 — This market insight covers the small-satellite market from an Earth-imaging standpoint. It touches on the research and commercial versions of small-satellite technology.
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
Lokeren, Belgium, October 7, 2015 — Orbit GT will be showcasing its new UAS Mapping product at the UAS Expo in Las Vegas, this week.
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
October 7, 2015 — R.A. Smith National — a nationwide, multi-disciplined civil and structural engineering and surveying firm — headquartered in Brookfield, Wis., has been granted a Section 333 Exemption from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). This exemption, granted on a case-by-case basis allows R.A. Smith National to use a UAS (unmanned aircraft system) to
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
Leicestershire, October 7, 2015 — Bluesky has completed a multi-million pound aerial mapping project to assess the impact of vegetation on the electricity network of East Anglia and the South East of England. Working on behalf of UK Power Networks, Bluesky undertook the largest ever combined laser mapping and aerial photography survey commissioned by an electricity distribution
Tuesday, October 6th, 2015
October 6, 2015 — Earth-i, (www.earthi.space), the master distributor of imaging and data services from the DMC3/TripleSat constellation with a unique combination of very high spatial and temporal resolution, has announced the appointment of Dr. Peter Hausknecht to its team of prominent and experienced individuals from the Earth Observation industry.
Tuesday, October 6th, 2015
Redlands, California, October 6, 2015 — Esri announced today the availability of the Trimble R1 Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiverfor collecting professional-grade GPS data with Collector for ArcGIS. The GNSS receiver is rugged certified MIL-STD-810, IP65 rated, compact, and lightweight and provides professional-grade positioning information to iOS, Android, or Windows mobile handhelds, smartphones, and
Tuesday, October 6th, 2015
NEW YORK, October 6, 2015 — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announces the largest civil penalty the FAA has proposed against a UAS operator for endangering the safety of our airspace.
Tuesday, October 6th, 2015
October 6, 2015 — Supergeo’s biggest application customer in Taiwan, Ministry of the Interior and the TGOS platform, has just announced one of the biggest projects in the GIS field from ide@ Taiwan 2020 Policy: White Paper which focuses on the integration of internal geographic information data with smart cities and smart rural areas. The
