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Thursday, June 11th, 2015

Urban Challenge Looking for Innovators

Munich, June 11, 2015 — The quality of satellite imagery is improving year by year, to the point where it is now possible to read signage and see line markings clearly. Not only has there been an improvement in visual resolution now satellites like WorldView-2 and WorldView-3 are delivering imagery in 8 spectral bands, more

Thursday, June 11th, 2015

ENVITIA receives contract from HP to deliver Defence Geospatial Services (DGS) contract to the UK Ministry of Defence

June 11, 2015 — ENVITIA has been awarded a contract by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services UK to deliver, in partnership, the first phase of the Defence Geospatial Services (DGS) programme to the UK Ministry of Defence.

Thursday, June 11th, 2015

GeoDecisions’ GeoILS Intelligent Location Server Used to Track Icebergs

Harrisburg, Pa., June 11, 2015 — A Canadian expedition team used GeoDecisions’ GeoILS® platform to help track icebergs during a voyage to better understand how icebergs drift.

Thursday, June 11th, 2015

Sweden Signs Up For Sentinel Data

June 11, 2015 — With the second Copernicus-dedicated Sentinel satellite less than two weeks away from launch, ESA and Sweden have signed an arrangement on managing and accessing Sentinel data.

Thursday, June 11th, 2015

New Leica DMC III Becomes Industry’s Most Efficient Aerial Frame Sensor with CMOS Technology

HEERBRUGG, SWITZERLAND, June 11, 2015 — Leica Geosystems announces the DMC III, the industry’s first large format CMOS airborne sensor, making it the most efficient digital mapping camera on the market.

Thursday, June 11th, 2015

Pictometry to Host FutureView 2015 User Conference

Bothell, Wash., June 11, 2015 — EagleView Technology Corporation, a leading technology provider of aerial imagery, data analytics and GIS solutions, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Pictometry International Corp., will host the 2015 FutureView User Conference August 19-21, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel. 

Thursday, June 11th, 2015

Global Mapper and GM LiDAR SDKs v16.2 Released with Significant Export Processing Speed Gains

Hallowell, Maine – June 11, 2015 — Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 16.2 of the Global Mapper Base Software Development Kit (SDK) along with the Global Mapper LiDAR Module SDK.

Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

Ohio State Goes Live with Real-time GIS Maps Website

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 10, 2015 — The Ohio State University has gone live with its GIS Maps 1.0, a live Geographic Information System (GIS) map of the historic Columbus campus.

Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

Esri Joins International Partnership to Enhance Climate Resilience in Developing Countries

REDLANDS, Calif., June 10 — In a next phase of support of The White House Climate Action Plan, Esri will donate its best-of-breed GIS technology and counsel to help developing countries visualize, understand, and mitigate the impacts of climate change.

Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

Teledyne Optech and Orbit GT Enter Partnership for Mobile Mapping Software

June 10, 2015 — Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce that it has entered a partnership with Orbit GeoSpatial Technologies to resell their world-class Orbit Mobile Mapping software, giving the Optech Lynx mobile mapper a complete software workflow.