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Friday, February 20th, 2015

Digital Aerial Solutions Expands Mapping Services with Purchase of Leica ALS80 Laser Scanner

NORCROSS, GA, Feb.20, 2015 – Leica Geosystems Inc. today announced that Digital Aerial Solutions (DAS), a woman-owned small business based in Tampa, Fla., is the first company in North America to purchase the ALS80 laser scanner. The ALS80 augments the company’s current data collection capabilities consisting of three Leica ADS sensors and one Leica ALS60 laser

Thursday, February 19th, 2015

A Decade of Change in America’s Arctic: New Land Cover Data Released for Alaska

Feb. 19, 2015—The latest edition of the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD 2011) for Alaska is now publicly available. The extensive NLCD database continues to add to our understanding of where land cover change has occurred across the Nation over time.  Derived from carefully calibrated, long-term observations of Landsat satellites, NLCD data are used for thousands

Thursday, February 19th, 2015

1Spatial Becomes Gold Partner of the National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC)

Cambridge, UK, Feb.19, 2015—1Spatial plc, the spatial big data company, is delighted to announce it has become a Gold Partner of the National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC), whose mission it is to promote state wide geospatial coordination activities in all states and be an effective advocate for states in national geospatial policy and initiatives,

Thursday, February 19th, 2015

Keystone Purchases Third UltraCam Falcon with UltraNav

Graz, Austria, Feb. 19, 2015—Keystone Aerial Surveys, Inc., a group company of PASCO CORPORATION, has contracted with Microsoft’s UltraCam business unit and subsidiary to purchase an UltraCam Falcon digital aerial camera system with the UltraNav GNSS-Inertial Direct Georeferencing + Flight Management System.

Thursday, February 19th, 2015

Optech Presenting Multipulse and Multispectral Solutions at ILMF 2015

Feb. 19, 2015 — Optech is pleased to announce that it will present and exhibit at the International LiDAR Mapping Forum in Denver, CO, USA on February 23-25, 2015, where senior personnel will describe how Optech’s new Galaxy and Titan systems are challenging industry paradigms and blazing new application opportunities with innovative new solutions.

Thursday, February 19th, 2015

Dielmo 3D to Demonstrate LiDAR Processing, Software and Online LiDAR Services at ILMF 2015

Valencia, Spain, Centennial CO—DIELMO 3D S.L., Valencia, Spain, announced they will be demonstrating their LiDAR industry leading online services as well as proprietary LiDAR software and processing services at ILMF 2015. Additionally, Dielmo 3D has launched their new North American web site, www.dielmousa.com,  and signed an agreement with Spatial Resources, LLC., Centennial, Colorado to distribute

Wednesday, February 18th, 2015

TerraGo Edge Brings Real-Time GPS to Field Workers at a Fraction of the Cost of Traditional Handhelds

Washington, DC, Feb.18, 2015 – TerraGo, a pioneer of geospatial collaboration and enterprise mobility software, announces the availability of TerraGo Edge 3.4. For users who require high-precision data collection, this means they can now monitor GPS data in real-time, and capture the location when it meets their accuracy requirements. By providing an intuitive user interface

Wednesday, February 18th, 2015

Bluesky Aerial Photography Gives a Bird’s Eye View of the Cotswolds

Leicestershire, UK, Feb. 18, 2015 – Aerial photography from Bluesky is supporting the delivery of essential council services in Gloucestershire. The high resolution imagery is helping staff at Cotswolds District Council deal with requests from the public, whether in person, online or via the Council’s Customer Contact Centre. The data is also supporting staff in

Wednesday, February 18th, 2015

Hexacopter Measures Zero Gravity Plane, Generates Detailed 3D Model of Landing Gear

Kassel, Germany, Feb.18,015—The publicly appointed surveyors Uli Bauer and Andreas Gelhausen have generated a 3D model of the landing gear of the zero gravity Airbus A300 ZERO-G that is accurate to more than +/- 5 mm. Furthermore, they used the Aibot X6 UAV to generate a point cloud of the aircraft.

Wednesday, February 18th, 2015

Textron Systems Announces New Web-based Geospatial Image Exploitation Capability

Feb.18, 2015- Textron Systems Geospatial Solutions, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) business, announced today the beta release of its newest product, the RVcloud™ web-based Electronic Light Table (ELT), offering many of the image exploitation capabilities of its popular RemoteView™ geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) software. The release of RVcloud enables organizations to transform the way in which