Thursday, March 20th, 2014
A Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellite built by Lockheed Martin has been encapsulated into its payload fairing in preparation for an April 3 liftoff. The launch will take place aboard an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 3 East at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
Thursday, March 20th, 2014
Ordnance Survey’s latest iOS app is ideal for pinpointing the location for anyone exploring the great outdoors. OS Locate is free to download and is a fast and highly accurate means of pinpointing a user’s exact location on the map, anywhere in Great Britain.
Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
Today the White House announced the Climate Data Initiative, aimed at helping organizations and communities use public data to better understand and prepare for the effects of climate change. Up until now, it’s been difficult for the public to locate detailed, timely data relevant to climate-related risks such as extreme weather events. To help address
Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
Australian insurance companies could save millions of dollars by adopting cutting-edge mapping technology to deal with the impact of natural disasters in real time, according to a leading spatial industry expert.
Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
European Space Agency (ESA) organises a series of summer schools on Monitoring of the Earth System to promote the exploitation of Earth Observation EO data across disciplines, with a specific focus on their assimilation into Earth System models.
Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
Leica Geosystems Inc. today announced that I.F. Rooks & Associates, Inc., an aerial photogrammetry firm based in Plant City, Fla., has expanded its services with the purchase of a Leica RCD30 medium-format digital camera. Rooks is the first firm in Florida to implement the complete RCD30 sensor solution on a helicopter.
Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
Trimble introduced today a new premium map layer that adds private land ownership, Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN) and parcel boundaries on topographic and satellite maps from MyTopo. The layer option is available via MyTopo’s popular print-on-demand Website mytopo.com . Private land ownership maps are used by professionals involved in real estate, land use planning, agriculture
Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
OS OnDemand, Ordnance Survey’s online map service, has been a valuable asset to the Environment Agency during this winter’s flooding, providing millions of households and businesses with access to detailed flood mapping.
Tuesday, March 18th, 2014
Blue Marble Geographics will be conducting a workshop at the forthcoming AAG (Association of American Geographers) Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida. The workshop, entitled “LiDAR Processing and Terrain Analysis in Global Mapper”, is scheduled for Wednesday, April 9, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used
Tuesday, March 18th, 2014
Esri has released new versions of Collector for ArcGIS and Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS. The Collector app now includes the ability to download maps to your smartphone or tablet device to collect and edit data when working offline. Operations Dashboard has added support for browsers so you can view operations on your iPad, Android tablet
