Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
OpenGeo, the world’s leading commercial open source geospatial company have announced their plans to support QGIS and the open source community behind it. QGIS is the most widely available open source GIS tool with a proven track record and an extensive plug-in ecosystem. It is widely regarded to have achieved feature parity with proprietary tools
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company” (TSX: MDA), a global communications and information company, announced today it has been awarded a contract by DigitalGlobe to provide a new international Direct Access Facility ground station for an unspecified customer to task, collect and process imagery from the WorldView-1 and WorldView-2 satellites. This contract
Monday, July 22nd, 2013
ScanEx RDC Research and Development Center officially became the distributor of the KOMPSAT data series in Russia and the CIS countries (Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Azerbaijan) at the end of June this year, following the signing of an agreement with the Korean company Satrec Initiative Co., Ltd.
Monday, July 22nd, 2013
Marcus Hanke, CEO of 1Spatial, global specialists in spatial big data management, is part of a panel discussing Market Insight & Opportunities Ahead at the Cambridge Conference today at 3.45pm. Chaired by Neil Ackroyd from Ordnance Survey, other panellists include representatives from Oracle, DigitalGlobe, Esri and Infotech.
Friday, July 19th, 2013
The International Space Station (ISS) partner agencies released a statement Wednesday on the benefits of the space station during natural disasters on Earth. Flying 250 miles above the planet and circling it every 90 minutes, the orbiting outpost provides a unique vantage point from which images of Earth can play an important role in helping
Friday, July 19th, 2013
SPOT 6, the high-resolution Earth observation satellite designed, built and operated by Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, has now been qualified by the JRC to take part in the MARS-CAP programme. MARS-CAP is a programme run by the European Commission which involves surveying agricultural land by satellite, as part of the Common Agricultural Policy
Thursday, July 18th, 2013
The UltraCam team recently visited Ramani Geosystems, a Kenya–based geospatial services firm that offers land surveying, aerial photography, aerial LiDAR and mapping services throughout Africa and an UltraCam customer since 2012. Ramani Geosystems wanted to be able to take on larger projects and find a better way to capture high-resolution images in East Africa’s tricky
Thursday, July 18th, 2013
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX: MDA), a global communications and information company, announced today that it has signed a multi-million dollar contract with Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), France. MDA will provide a RADARSAT-2 ground station and three years of RADARSAT information. The station will be installed in Bali, Indonesia, providing
Thursday, July 18th, 2013
Trimble introduced today new functionality and configuration options for the Juno T41 rugged handheld computer. In addition to a handheld computer and smartphone configuration, the series now includes high-speed 1D/2D barcode imaging technology and enhanced, real-time 1-2 meter GPS accuracy.
Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
Developers using Ordnance Survey’s OS OpenData products have been busy accessing the organisation’s new Linked Data service.The enhanced Linked Data service, which provides more flexibility and ease when using the free geographic datasets, is proving popular with hundreds of developers already accessing datasets and the new features. In the first month the new site received
