Monday, March 10th, 2014
Esri, the world leader in mapping technology, unveiled The Esri Climate Resilience App Challenge 2014, calling all developers to create an app using the Esri ArcGIS Platform to help communities, see, understand, and prepare for climate risks. Esri will provide up to three winners with more than $15,000 in cash prizes or a software equivalent.
Monday, March 10th, 2014
1Spatial Group, the spatial big data company has made a number of significant hires across the business in its sales and development teams to address the rapidly growing business opportunities.
Friday, March 7th, 2014
Researchers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., developed a sophisticated piece of flight hardware called a Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) to detect and locate lightning over the tropical region of the globe. Launched into space in 1997 as part of NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), the sensor undertook a three-year baseline
Thursday, March 6th, 2014
PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, today announces that it has signed an Education Alliance agreement with Arabian Gulf University in Manama, in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The agreement was signed in late 2013 with the cooperation of GISTEC, PCI Geomatics’ exclusive reseller in the region. Under the terms of
Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
Blue Marble Geographics will be exhibiting at the NERCOFE 2014 Workshop at the University of Maine on March 10-11, 2014. Throughout the conference Blue Marble will be demonstrating the LiDAR Module for Global Mapper and how it is utilized throughout the forestry industry. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide
Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
Exprodat, the UK-based provider of Esri-based petroleum GIS services, software and training, has created an exclusive forum for oil & gas companies to benchmark their geospatial capabilities.
Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
Keystone Aerial Surveys, Inc., a PASCO Group company, has contracted with Microsoft’s UltraCam business unit and subsidiary to purchase two UltraCam Falcon digital aerial camera systems with the UltraNav GNSS-Inertial Direct Georeferencing + Flight Management System.
Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of high-accuracy lidar 3D survey systems and productivity-enhancing workflow software, is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting at the Oceanology International 2014 conference in London, UK on March 11-13. Attendees are invited to visit Optech at booth G100, shared with sister company Teledyne
Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
The INTERGEO leading conference trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management is to return to the German capital for its 20th anniversary. Surrounded by the heady mix of politics, organisations and media found there, INTERGEO is turning its attention first and foremost to those questions thrown up by the increasing digitisation of
Tuesday, March 4th, 2014
The President’s fiscal year (FY) 2015 budget request for the U.S. Geological Survey is $1.1 billion, an increase of $41.3 million above the FY 2014 enacted level. The FY 2015 Budget reflects the President’s ongoing commitment to scientific discovery and innovation to support decision making in addressing critical societal needs and to support a
