Thursday, April 14th, 2016
ARLINGTON, Va — The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) today released an interactive analysis that finds 38 types of business operations have been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly unmanned aircraft systems commercially in the National Airspace System (NAS). According to the report that analyzed more than 3,000 FAA exemptions, aerial
Thursday, April 14th, 2016
Cambridge, ON – exactEarth Ltd. (TSX: XCT) (“the Company”), the leading provider of Satellite AIS data services, today announces a Strategic Alliance Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Larus Technologies (“Larus”), an Ottawa-based provider of adaptive learning and predictive analytics software. Under the Agreement, the two companies will work together to develop and market Big Data analytics-based
Thursday, April 14th, 2016
New York, NY—A team led by Shree K. Nayar, T.C. Chang Professor of Computer Science at Columbia Engineering, has developed a novel sheet camera that can be wrapped around everyday objects to capture images that cannot be taken with one or more conventional cameras. The Columbia team, which includes research engineer Daniel Sims BS’14 and
Thursday, April 14th, 2016
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected Battelle, an independent, nonprofit research and development organization, to manage the construction, commissioning and initial operations of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). Battelle, with a long history of program management and scientific expertise, will help ensure NEON’s mission and its full scientific utility. For more information, please
Thursday, April 14th, 2016
To provide a graphical representation of cultural crimes committed by Daesh (also known as ISIS or ISIL) and other extremist organizations in the Middle East and North African region, the Antiquities Coalition partnered with Hexagon to create the Culture Under Threat Map. The interactive map program base includes current high-resolution satellite imagery maps and displays the destruction of
Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
NEW YORK — GigaSpaces, a provider of in-memory computing (IMC) technologies, today announced enhancements to its industry leading IMC platform, XAP. With the new version, XAP 11, users are now able to integrate and utilize location data from a wide range of sources at in-memory speeds. With these advancements, organizations can implement data analysis and
Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
LONDON –Time Out Group, the trusted global platform that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city, has acquired HallStreet, an award-winning geo-mapping startup, for an undisclosed sum. Spanish-based startup HallStreet has revolutionised the global travel and leisure market with an interactive events and travel planner based on maps. Time Out’s investment
Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
RICHMOND, BC — MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX:MDA), a global communications and information company, today announced that it has been awarded a two year contract valued at CA$7.2 million to support the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Full Spectrum Geospatial Intelligence (FSG) program. MDA will deliver an information solution to
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
ENGLEWOOD, COLO., and BOSTON, MASS.— Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC and BridgeSat Inc. are pleased to announce a partnership to work towards developing a free-space optical communications system that will provide secure data downlinks from satellites to a proprietary ground network at faster speeds than equivalent radio frequency solutions. Under this partnership, Surrey will build
