Monday, March 28th, 2016
The launch of the GOES-R geostationary satellite in October 2016 could herald a new era for predicting hurricanes, according to Penn State researchers. The wealth of information from this new satellite, at time and space scales not previously possible, combined with advanced statistical hurricane prediction models, could enable more accurate predictions in the future. “For
Monday, March 28th, 2016
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today released an updated list of pilot, air traffic controller and citizen reports of possible encounters with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The latest report covers August 22, 2015 through January 31, 2016. Reports of unmanned aircraft have increased dramatically since 2014. Safely integrating unmanned aircraft into the national airspace system is
Monday, March 28th, 2016
ARLINGTON, Va. — CACI International Inc (NYSE MKT: CACI) announced today it has been awarded a $180 million contract to provide Joint Geospatial Analytic Support Services (JGASS) to U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). This five-year (one base plus four option years) contract represents new work for CACI and expands its presence in its Intelligence Services
Friday, March 25th, 2016
RENO – A team of Nevada scientists and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) engineers have successfully flight tested the first-ever autonomous cloud seeding aircraft platform. Cloud seeding flare tests were deployed from Drone America’s DAx8 UAS aircraft flown in Reno in late January. As the first phase in a new industry-academic research partnership between the Desert
Friday, March 25th, 2016
NASA is sending scientists around the world in 2016 – from the edge of the Greenland ice sheet to the coral reefs of the South Pacific – to delve into challenging questions about how our planet is changing and what impacts humans are having on it. While Earth science field experiments are nothing new for
Friday, March 25th, 2016
DENVER — petroWEB Inc. today announced Global Seismic Library (GSL) will now be available as a free service via www.globalseismiclibrary.com. GSL is a global catalog of commercial multi-client seismic and gravity/magnetic data coverage. Now, rather than spending hours searching for all potential seismic data sources, GSL can instantly provide users with a global view of
Friday, March 25th, 2016
WESTMINSTER, Colo.— DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), the global leader in earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced an agreement to convert an existing letter of intent into a definitive agreement to extend and expand a contract with an existing international defense and intelligence customer. The contract was extended by four years, adding
Friday, March 25th, 2016
London/San Jose, March 24, 2016 – Steve Coast, the founder of OpenStreetMap, has joined what3words, the multi-award winning addressing platform, as Chief Evangelist. The appointment of Coast capitalizes on what3words’ expansion in the North American market. Coast, who is based in Denver, has long been a stalwart of the geospatial community, having founded the OpenStreetMap project in
Friday, March 25th, 2016
Hemisphere GNSS has debut S321, a next-generation multi-frequency, multi-GNSS survey smart antenna. The all-new S321 combines Hemisphere’s Athena and Atlas technologies along with a completely new web UI offering an unparalleled level of customer-friendly performance, making it applicable to any land or marine survey portfolio. “The S321 is another example of how much Hemisphere has
Friday, March 25th, 2016
Woolpert has been hired by Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI) to collect imagery via unmanned aerial system (UAS), or drone, of haul roads throughout the Midwest. This project, “Characterization of Unpaved Road Conditions Through the Use of Remote Sensing,” is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research
