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Thursday, March 21st, 2013

MDA to Provide RADARSAT Information for Environmental Monitoring and Emergency Response Services

MDA’s Information Systems group (MDA) announced today that its Geospatial business unit will deliver RADARSAT-2 data products and change monitoring services to the Ukraine Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Ministry) to support environmental monitoring and emergency response services in key areas within the Ukraine.

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Hand Held 3D Mapping System Used to Explore Aboriginal Caves

ZEB1, the world’s first truly mobile handheld rapid laser mapping system has been used to explore Aboriginal cave markings in South Australia. The strange markings, called finger flutings, were thought to have been left in the Koonalda Cave between about 30,000 and 10,000 years ago. Created by hands being dragged along established grooves in the

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

SuperPad 3.1 Supports Comune di Ovodda for Accurate Field Boundary and Prosperity Assessment

Supergeo Technologie announced that SuperPad 3.1 was selected by Comune di Ovodda to complete field data collection for accurate field boundary and prosperity assessment. Today, economic development and governmental policy were the main driving factors of land-using change. In this procurement, Superpad 3.1, the mobile GIS software, is utilized by Comune di Ovodda to frequently

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

The OGC Announces Best Practices Document for Earth Observation Product, Service and Sensor Discovery

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has adopted as an official OGC Best Practice a document titled, “OGC EO Product Collection, Service and Sensor Discovery using the CS-W ebRIM Catalogue.” This OGC Best Practices Document describes the relations that exist between several metadata conceptual models: Earth Observation (EO) Product, EO Product Collections, Sensors and Services. Specification

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

TerraGo Closes $5.5 Million Financing to Support Growth in Location Intelligence Markets

TerraGo, a leading global provider of location intelligence, geospatial collaboration and field data collection software solutions, announced today the successful completion of $5.5 million in financing to drive corporate growth and expedite product innovation strategies.

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

Esri and Motion Provide Geoenriched Mobile Claims Processing

Esri, the world-leading provider of GIS and location analytics software, and Motion Computing, a global provider of mobile computing solutions and rugged tablet technology, have aligned to help insurance agencies improve their claims workflow. By providing access to Esri’s ArcGIS platform on ruggedized tablets, everyone in an insurance agency, from adjusters in the field to

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

MDA to Provide Digital Elevation Models for Philippine National Flood Hazard Analysis

MDA’s Information Systems group has signed a contract with Accent Micro Technologies Inc. (AMTI) to provide comprehensive 3-D terrain models for the territory of the Philippines in support of a national disaster management program. Under the contract, MDA will supply Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) using RADARSAT-2 for use by the University of the Philippines, in

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

NASA’s Second Annual International Space Apps Challenge

NASA has announced this year’s International Space Apps Challenge, the second annual event aimed at solving practical problems in space and on Earth. The challenge will run in 75 cities around the world, and NASA has curated over 50 challenges for participants to tackle. There will also be a “make your own challenge” option for

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

Slagboom & Peeters Purchases Second UltraCam Eagle

Slagboom & Peeters has contracted with Microsoft’s UltraCam business unit and subsidiary to purchase an UltraCam Eagle digital aerial camera system with an 80mm lens. This transaction marks the company’s second UltraCam Eagle purchase announcement in the last 12 months. Slagboom & Peeters, from its headquarters in the Netherlands, provides aerial mapping and photogrammetric services

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

Enfield Takes an Oblique View with Bluesky Aerial Images

Aerial mapping company Bluesky has supplied Enfield Council with BlomOBLIQUE aerial images covering the whole of the north London Borough. The imagery, taken at an angle of approximately 45 degrees, allows for sides of building to be seen and easier interpretation of the environment by non-specialist users. The product BlomOBLIQUE is captured by Blom UK,