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Friday, May 8th, 2015

Exelis ENVI Analytics now on DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data Platform

BOULDER, Colo., May 8, 2015 — Exelis (NYSE: XLS) and DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI) have agreed to provide a new commercial offering of cloud-based ENVI earth science analytics for the DigitalGlobe Geospatial Big Data (GBD) platform. ENVI is the industry-leading remote sensing analytical software used by government, academic and private industry organizations to extract meaningful information

Friday, May 8th, 2015

PrecisionHawk Signs UAV Research Agreement with FAA to Address Extended Visual Line of Sight

RALEIGH, N.C., May 8, 2015 — PrecisionHawk has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration to advance the research around unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) across rural areas.

Friday, May 8th, 2015

OnBase by Hyland Enhances Esri Integration with the Release of OnBase 15

Cleveland, Ohio, May 08, 2015 — The newest annual release of OnBase 15 includes more than 2,000 customer-focused enhancements, including the ability to place documents and content on a map within OnBase leveraging the Esri® ArcGIS platform. The integration displays documents as a data layer on a map, augmenting geographic and analytic knowledge while creating a

Friday, May 8th, 2015

Citation Recognizes Development of National Mapping Standards

TAMPA, Fla., May 8, 2015 — Dr. Qassim Abdullah was awarded a Presidential Citation from the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) at the 2015 ASPRS Conference on Wednesday, May 6, in Tampa, Fla.

Thursday, May 7th, 2015

DroneMetrex Selects Dacosmo Company as Exclusive Reseller in China & Taiwan

May 7, 2015 — DroneMetrex, a developer and manufacturer of TopoDrones – unique photogrammetric mapping UAV systems, is proud to announce that it has awarded Dacosmo Company with the exclusive reseller contract in the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan.

Thursday, May 7th, 2015

FAA’s B4UFLY App Will Help UAS Pilots Operate Safely and Legally

WASHINGTON, May 7, 2015 — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today demonstrated a new smartphone application called “B4UFLY,” designed to help model aircraft and unmanned aircraft (UAS) users know if it is safe and legal to fly in their current or planned location. 

Thursday, May 7th, 2015

PlexiDrone Achieves Canada’s Highest Grossing Crowdfunding Campaign

TORONTO, May 7, 2015 — DreamQii, a robotics company based out of the DMZ at Ryerson University, has led the highest grossing Canadian campaign in Indiegogo’s history, raising over $2 million USD (over C$2.5 million) to support the production of PlexiDrone. The small, portable and sophisticated drone can be easily operated by a smartphone or tablet,

Thursday, May 7th, 2015

Supercomputers Make Bluesky’s National Geographic Datasets a Reality

Leicestershire, May 7, 2015 — Aerial  mapping company Bluesky is exploring the power of supercomputers to process and  deliver 3D maps, comprising trillions of data points, for a range of  environmental applications. 

Thursday, May 7th, 2015

Latin America Earth Observation Data Market to Exceed $350 Million by 2024

Paris, Washington D.C., Montreal, Yokohama, May 7, 2015 — According to Euroconsult’s newly released report,  Earth Observation Requirements & Solutions in Latin America, the Latin American Earth observation market is undergoing significant expansion brought about by growing demand for Earth observation data and services, and governments’ growing investment into the application to support this demand and

Wednesday, May 6th, 2015

OGC Announces Standard for Concise Description of Earth Coordinate Reference Systems

May 6, 2015 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has adopted the OGC Well-known Text (WKT) Representation of Coordinate Reference Systems Encoding Standard.