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Tuesday, March 24th, 2015

GoGeomatics Canada Launches E-Book for International Geospatial Job Seekers

March 24, 2015 — GoGeomatics Canada, the premier communications and resource hub in the Canadian geospatial community, has just launched a career guide for international job seekers looking to move to Canada to work in GIS, remote sensing, surveying, geodesy, and geomatics engineering.

Monday, March 23rd, 2015

Topcon Acquires Digi-Star, a Global Leader in Precision Agriculture

LIVERMORE, March 23, 2015 — Topcon Positioning Group announces the acquisition of Digi-Star, a global leader in agricultural solutions involving weight sensors and control systems for feeding, planting, fertilizer, and harvest equipment manufacturers.

Monday, March 23rd, 2015

GIS Map Provides Unique Perspective on Current and Potential Drilling on State Lands

HARRISBURG, Pa., March 23, 2015 — Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) and FracTracker Alliance have created a unique GIS map that enables the public to investigate how shale gas development is changing the face of our public lands. 

Monday, March 23rd, 2015

Amazon Gets Experimental Airworthiness Certificate

March 23, 2015 — The Federal Aviation Administration today issued an experimental airworthiness certificate to an Amazon Logistics, Inc. unmanned aircraft (UAS) design that the company will use for research and development and crew training. The FAA typically issues experimental certificates to manufacturers and technology developers to operate a UAS that does not have a

Friday, March 20th, 2015

Leica GeoMoS 6.2 Enables Parallel and Easy Management of Multiple Monitoring Projects on-Premises or in the Cloud

Heerbrugg, Switzerland, March 20, 2015 — Leica GeoMoS version 6.2 comes with the newly updated GeoMoS Monitor 6.2, which allows management of data collection and computation for multiple monitoring projects at the same time.

Friday, March 20th, 2015

More than 40 companies confirmed at MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica Exhibition

March 20, 2015 — MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica, Conference and Trade Fair of Geomatics and Geospatial Solutions, will be held in Sao Paulo, 5-7 May at the Frei Caneca Convention Center. At the event website you can view photos, videos, news, testimonials, information for exhibitors, location, accommodation, registration, exhibition floor, MundoGEO#Connect 2015 Awards, and also check out

Friday, March 20th, 2015

Amazon Makes Landsat Data Even More Available

March 20, 2015 — As part of Amazon Web Services (AWS) commitment to White House’s Climate Data Initiative, the company announced today that 85,000 Landsat 8 scenes are now conveniently accessible in AWS Public Data Sets. 

Thursday, March 19th, 2015

Panoptes Systems Launches eBumper4 Obstacle Avoidance Product; Kicks Off Order Campaign

CAMBRIDGE, MA, March 18, 2015 — Panoptes Systems is excited to introduce the eBumper4, the first commercially-available, sonar-based, small drone obstacle avoidance system. Running into obstacles is one of the biggest hurdles to overcome for effective drone operation. eBumper4 helps solve this problem.

Thursday, March 19th, 2015

Airbus Defence and Space Selects Arianespace to Launch EDRS-C Satellite

March 19, 2015 — Airbus Defence and Space and Arianespace have reached an agreement for the launch of EDRS-C which is the second geostationary satellite of the SpaceDataHighway system. The launch is scheduled for the first quarter in 2017. EDRS-C will increase the system capacity and provide redundancy for the SpaceDataHighway. Its orbital position will

Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

Paolo E. Colombi Named Global Sales Lead for Harris Corporation’s Geospatial Solutions Business Area

March 18, 2015 — Harris is pleased to announce that Paolo E. Colombi has joined  Harris as Head of Global Sales for Geospatial Solutions.