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Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
Feb.25, 2015 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the OGC® Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework white paper. This essential document for Smart City systems planning is available free at https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=61188.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
Feb.25, 2015 — Department for Transport project with Ordnance Survey (OS) will deliver the next generation road mapping for England and Wales.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
SALINA, Kansas, Feb.25, 2015 — Kansas State University Salina has reached a national milestone in the unmanned aircraft systems industry, becoming the first entity in the country to receive approval from the Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, for statewide access during flight operations.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
Gatineau, QC, Feb. 25, 2015 — CubeWerx today announced the availability of OpenImgeMap™ – A cloud-based platform for hosting and publishing dynamic collections of geospatial imagery and securely delivering them through Open APIs. As a world leader in the provisioning of interoperable Web services, CubeWerx now sets the bar for dynamic hosting of imagery. Upload
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
Netanya, Israel, Feb. 25, 2015 — ORBIT Communication Systems, a leading provider of mission and business critical communication solutions for land, sea, air and space applications, announced today that it has won a contract to supply its Gaia-100 earth observation ground station solution to a leading Space Agency in Europe.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
Feb.25, 2015 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the OGC® Augmented Reality Markup Language 2.0 Interface Standard (ARML 2.0). ARML 2.0 provides a free and open, non-proprietary encoding that augmented reality (AR) content providers can use to specify the visual appearance and real world “anchors” (including location) of virtual objects in an AR scene. Additionally, ARML
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
Feb.25, 2015 — GoGeomatics Canada recently launched a new service for job seekers looking for work in geomatics, GIS, remote sensing, surveying, cartography, and other related fields. Their Geospatial Resume and Cover Letter Writing Services are designed to offer an effective, affordable approach to help geospatial job seekers find employment, regardless of where they are
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
Rome, Feb.24, 2015 — e-GEOS, a company established by Telespazio (80%) and the Italian Space Agency (20%), has been awarded a contract from the European Commission worth 12 million euros, to provide satellite maps for emergency management. The contract, identified as Copernicus Emergency Management Service – Rapid Mapping, will be active in the period 2015
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
Feb.24, 2015 — The QuickBird satellite designed and built by Ball Aerospace for DigitalGlobe de-orbited successfully last month after making 70,000 trips around the Earth during its more than 13 years on orbit.
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
Friedrichshafen/Ottobrunn, Feb.24, 2015 — After six months of intensive testing, the first Sentinel-2 satellite developed and built by Airbus Defence and Space for the European Space Agency (ESA) is getting ready for its mission in space.
