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Wednesday, June 15th, 2016

Sanborn Completes Connecticut Statewide Data Collection

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., – The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. (Sanborn) flight team overcame challenging spring weather conditions to successfully collect high-resolution imagery of the entire state of Connecticut and its coastline in just five weeks.  Altogether, the firm collected more than 42,500 4-band, 3-inch resolution images during March and April, including more than 6,000 coastline

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016

NGCC and Esri Provide Access to Authoritative Chinese Cartographic Maps and Imagery

Redlands, California —The world’s leading mapping platform company, Esri, and the National Geomatics Center of China (NGCC) held a signing ceremony in Beijing, China with respect to providing access to NGCC’s mapping web services. This historic agreement will allow more users who reside outside of China to access the country’s authoritative cartographic and imagery data.

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

exactEarth and DigitalGlobe Partner to Combat Illegal and Unreported Fishing

CAMBRIDGE, ON, June 14, 2016  – exactEarth Ltd. (TSX: XCT) (the “Company”), and DigitalGlobe Inc. (NYSE:DGI), today announced a Strategic Alliance (the “Alliance”) to offer joint services to the commercial fishing industry and to aid in the combating of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. Today, IUU fishing is recognized as a major threat to achieving sustainable

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

LuxCarta Joins CM-CIC Investissement and BNP Paribas Développement to Support its Expansion

Based in Sophia-Antipolis, France, LuxCarta specializes in processing satellite images to create 3D models. The company was created by the merger of GeoImage and ComputaMaps in 2013. Following the departure of one of LuxCarta’s four co-founders and associates, the directors sought two financial partners to restructure its capital and execute its international development strategy, particularly

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

Michael Baker Takes Lead in GIS for Next Generation 9-1-1, Partners With Orleans Parish Communication District, LAGIC on Innovative Technology

PITTSBURGH, PA – Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, today announced a partnership with the Orleans Parish Communication District (OPCD) and Louisiana Geographic Information Center (LAGIC) to supply the Michael Baker International DataMark™ DX geospatial data software to support the GIS data component of the existing 9-1-1 operations and

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

CubeSat Satellite Testing Takes Off at Mount Stromlo

Researchers from around Australia have begun testing satellites at the Mount Stromlo space testing facilities at The Australian National University (ANU) ahead of a mass satellite launch from the International Space Station later this year. Three CubeSats, satellites built from cubes about 10 centimetres per side, have been developed by researchers at ANU, the University

Monday, June 13th, 2016

UTC Aerospace Systems TERPROM to Equip Australian Defense Force PC-21s with Advanced Terrain Navigation

CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 13, 2016– UTC Aerospace Systems’ terrain referenced navigation (TRN) system, TERPROM®, has been selected by Pilatus Aircraft Ltd (Switzerland) to equip the Australian Defense Force (ADF) PC-21 next generation training aircraft.  UTC Aerospace Systems is a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX). TERPROM® is a proven navigation solution currently in use with

Monday, June 13th, 2016

MULTIROTOR Service-Drone Contributes Permanent Loan to Helicopter Museum for Exhibition ‚Experiencing and Understanding Technology from Emotion to Information‘

MULTIROTOR Service-Drone Contributes Permanent Loan to Helicopter Museum for Exhibition ‚Experiencing and Understanding Technology from Emotion to Information‘ For the permanent exhibition ’The whole world of vertical flight’ at the Helicopter Museum Bückeburg, company founder Oliver Knittel presented a drone to Thomas Mallwitz on the occasion of the International Aerospace Exhibition. The latter, as the

Monday, June 13th, 2016

PDF3D Releases 3D Geospatial PDF Plugin for ERDAS IMAGINE at HxGN Live

Anaheim, California, June 13th, 2016 – Technological leaders, PDF3D, have today announced a new development in GIS processing that gives users of Hexagon’s ERDAS IMAGINE software a powerful feature designed to integrate 3D PDF reporting by way of a simple plugin. Visual Technology Services, the developers behind the PDF3D Spatial Modeler plugin, have officially released

Friday, June 10th, 2016

exactEarth Announces Contract to Provide French Navy with Satellite AIS Data

Cambridge, ON – exactEarth Ltd. (TSX: XCT) (the “Company”), announces that it has been selected by Telespazio France to supply Satellite AIS services to the French Navy as part of the recently announced four-year Trimaran 2 project won by a consortium of Airbus Defense and Space and Telespazio France. Under terms of the contract, exactEarth will