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Tuesday, October 6th, 2015

Autodesk Showcases New UAV Features for ReCap 360 at Commercial UAV Expo 2015

October 6, 2015 — Autodesk, Inc. will showcase new ReCap 360 features specific for UAV users at Booth #300 at the 2015 Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas.  To meet the growing demand from the UAV industry to turn aerial photos into meaningful 2D and 3D data, these enhancements deliver an easy, cost-effective solution to

Friday, October 2nd, 2015

USGIF Announces New Board Members

Herndon, Virginia, October 2, 2015 —The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) announced the addition of seven new members to its Board of Directors. The newest board members are David Alexander, Julia Bowers, John Fenwick, Michael C. Grochol, Letitia A. Long, Manh Pham, and the Honorable Caryn A. Wagner. USGIF’s Board now includes 25 directors

Friday, October 2nd, 2015

NM Group and Pulse Collaboration to Offer Electrical Power Utilities Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) LiDAR and Inspection Services

Oct. 2, 2015 – NM Group (Network Mapping, Inc), a leading data capture, analytics and engineering services provider to electrical utilities, today announced a collaboration with Pulse (Pulse Aerospace, LLC).  Pulse Aerospace is the premier developer of helicopter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and flight control technology in the United States. Pulse’s HeliSynth  technology brings flight

Friday, October 2nd, 2015

SkyTraq Launches Miniature Low-Power RTK Receiver for UAS and Mobile Platform

Hsinchu, Taiwan,October 2, 2015 — SkyTraq Technology Inc., a fabless GNSS positioning technology company, introduces S2525F8-BD-RTK, a cost effective, low power, small size, single frequency RTK receiver for unmanned aerial systems and mobile platforms requiring centimeter-level position accuracy.

Friday, October 2nd, 2015

Detection and Monitoring of Landslides in the Management of Infrastructures and Urban Areas

October 2, 2015 — How to detect and monitor landslides and instability risks over urban areas, large infrastructures and the territory around it, in order to prevent disasters? Planetek Italia has set up Preciso® landslide, a new monitoring product, based on satellite data, to periodically provide information about infrastructures stability and landslides that could affect

Friday, October 2nd, 2015

PlanetObserver Continues Production of PlanetSAT 15 L8 Imagery Base Map: More than 50 Mill. sq km are Now Available

Clermont-Ferrand, October 2, 2015  — The French company PlanetObserver, specialized in imagery base map production for more than 25 years, announced today the coverage of more than 50 Mill. sq km with PlanetSAT 15 L8 base map.

Friday, October 2nd, 2015

Teledyne Oceanscience Supplies Innovative RapidCAST to TerraSond for Major Hydrographic Project

CARLSBAD, Calif.,October 2, 2015 — Teledyne Oceanscience supplied world-leading geospatial company TerraSond Limited with rapidCAST, a new innovative automated underway profiling system. According to TerraSond, the product was used in a major hydrographic project completed for NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey  in the Bering Sea in northwestern Alaska for the purpose of nautical chart updating.    

Friday, October 2nd, 2015

Weather Decision Technologies Powers Big Data Analytics for Climate Applications with Internap’s High-Performance Colocation and Global Network Services

ATLANTA, Oct. 2, 2015 —  Internap Corporation INAP,-1.16% a provider of high-performance Internetinfrastructure services, today announced that weather industry leader Weather Decision Technologies (WDT) is using the company’s high-density colocation, route-optimized Performance IP™ and Content Delivery Network (CDN) services. The global high-performance environment allows WDT to cost-effectively process massive amounts of weather and climate information and accelerate

Friday, October 2nd, 2015

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s…An Insurance Drone?

ERIE, Pa., Oct. 2, 2015 — In what could be the first step toward changing how insurance claims are handled in the future, Erie Insurance has moved from testing to actually using a drone to assist with a property damage claim. ERIE was among the first insurance companies to seek and receive permission from the Federal Aviation

Friday, October 2nd, 2015

Textron Systems’ Aerosonde(TM) Small Unmanned Aircraft System & Remote Video Technologies Support Wildfire Deterrence and Response in Idaho

HUNT VALLEY, MD, Oct 01, 2015 (Marketwired via COMTEX) — Textron Systems Unmanned Systems, a Textron Inc. TXT, -1.37% business, announced today that the company provided its equipment and personnel in support of a multi-day wildfire response and decision support effort in Idaho with the U.S. Department of Interior and U.S. Forest Service. Held in the