Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
1Spatial, Gold Sponsors and exhibitors at GIS Ireland will be exploring some of the key issues around specific digital landscape models (DLM), digital cartographic models (DCM) and how the company is providing the industry with an innovative solution at the conference this month. The presentation entitled ?Automated Generalisation: The Holy Grail for NMCAs will be
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
Leica Geosystems strengthens its market position in airborne surveying through Hexagon’s acquisition of Airborne Hydrography AB (AHAB), a provider of airborne laser survey systems for hydrographic and topographic surveys.
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
On Friday, Oct. 4, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company hosted community leaders from Leadership Jefferson County to celebrate Manufacturing Day and educate the community on the company’s manufacturing prowess. Local leaders toured the leading-edge Lockheed Martin facility and heard from Dennis Little, vice president of Production, on revolutionizing manufacturing.
Monday, October 7th, 2013
SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Space Imaging Middle East (SIME), whereby SIME will act as an authorized SimActive distributor in the Middle East region.
Monday, October 7th, 2013
Esri and the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Esri Corporate Headquarters in Redlands, California on 3 October. This MoU confirms the two organisations’ long-standing relationship: it provides an official framework to the GICHD’s collaboration with Esri, the leading Geographic Information System (GIS) software company which
Monday, October 7th, 2013
Using a state of the art airborne mapping system, aerial surveying company Bluesky is expanding its international operations. The integrated system, developed by Optech, includes a LiDAR and fully integrated thermal sensor and high resolution camera. Already proven in the UK the system, thought to be a world first, has already been successfully deployed in
Sunday, October 6th, 2013
ScanEx, announced today the launch of the innovation partnership program “Open Landscape”. The program will officially start on October 1, 2013. Founding members of the “Open Landscape” program include : ScanEx Research and Development Center and NGO “Transparent World” together with the World Bank, the World Resources Institute,members of the Global Forest Watch 2.0 and the Global Tiger Initiative. The program is supported by DigitalGlobe, NASA, and other satellite imagery
Friday, October 4th, 2013
The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) announced the recipients of its 2013 Scholarship Program, awarding a total of $107,000 to outstanding students studying the geospatial sciences or a related field. Since 2004, USGIF has awarded a total of $691,000 in scholarships.
Friday, October 4th, 2013
On the 6th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions” winners of the “Living Map” Internet competition were awarded for their work with satellite images. First place went to the team “Rezhevsk gems” (secondary school № 2, Sverdlovsk Region, Rezh town) , headmaster – Anastasia Orekhova. Silver medal went to the team
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013
Denis Dobrynin, World Wildlife Fund (WWF-Russia) Projects Coordinator, spoke at the 6th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions” on the necessity to establish satellite-based monitoring of intact frontier forest under protection of nature conservation non-profit organizations in the framework of voluntary forest certification (by example of the Arkhangelsk Region).
