Tuesday, January 21st, 2014
Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the addition of its Trimble® UX5 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to its Agriculture product portfolio for aerial imaging and mapping. The Trimble UX5 system can enable Ag service providers to easily capture aerial images for scouting and monitoring crop health such as detecting pests, weeds and nitrogen deficiencies. The system can
Tuesday, January 21st, 2014
MundoGEO is pleased to announce a whole new event in 2014, focused on developing solutions to society using geospatial information. MundoGEOXperience – Geographic Ideas Marathon (http://mundogeoxperience.com/2014/) – will be held from May 7 thru 9, parallel to the 4th edition of MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica 2014 – Conference and Trade Fair of Geomatics and Geospatial Solutions. This
Tuesday, January 21st, 2014
The same NOAA satellites that helped forecasters predict severe weather, such as the Moore, Okla., tornado last May and November’s deadly Midwest tornado outbreak, also played a key role in rescuing 253 people from potentially life-threatening scenarios throughout the United States and its surrounding waters last year.
Tuesday, January 21st, 2014
Aiming for launch at the end of March, the first satellite built specifically for Europe’s ambitious Copernicus environmental monitoring programme is now in the last stages of testing before being shipped to French Guiana for liftoff. Rising to the challenges of global change and the need to manage the environment more effectively, Copernicus offers
Tuesday, January 21st, 2014
Aero-Graphics has purchased an UltraCam Eagle digital aerial photogrammetric camera system with a 100mm lens and an UltraNav GNSS-Inertial Direct Georeferencing + Flight Management System from Microsoft’s UltraCam business unit and subsidiary.
Monday, January 20th, 2014
CITIC Pacific Mining has taken a high-tech approach to managing underground infrastructure at the largest magnetite project under construction in Australia, with the development of an industry-first, interactive buried services reporting and mapping system. The company has joined forces with Australia’s leading Geographic Information System (GIS) specialist, Esri Australia, to develop the reporting and mapping
Friday, January 17th, 2014
Spatial data specialist 1Spatial has completed the acquisition of the final 10 per cent of the issued share capital of geospatial software company Star-Apic, which specialises in solutions for land, property and infrastructure.
Thursday, January 16th, 2014
Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of Global Mapper version 15.1. This minor release features read/write support MS SQL Server Spatial databases, as well as updates to both the path profile and raster calculator tools. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts
Wednesday, January 15th, 2014
BC Assessment has signed an agreement with Esri Canada, a provider of enterprise geographic information system (GIS) technology, to pilot the company’s prototype of Assessment Analyst 3D, the world’s first geospatial 3D assessment analysis solution. This technology allows appraisers to conduct detailed valuations of condominiums, commercial buildings and individual units using 3D geoprocessing and analytics from
Wednesday, January 15th, 2014
Tourists heading to Canberra this summer can follow in the virtual footsteps of explorers and movie stars at an extraordinary exhibition that blends rare and historical charts with cutting-edge mapping technology. The Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita to Australia exhibition, which was opened late last year by self-proclaimed ‘map geek’ Russell Crowe, uses next-gen
