Monday, July 23rd, 2012
DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI) and GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), today announced that the boards of directors of both companies have unanimously approved a definitive merger agreement under which the companies will combine in a stock and cash transaction valued at approximately $900 million. The combination of DigitalGlobe and GeoEye will create a global leader in
Monday, July 23rd, 2012
Engineers at Orbital Sciences Corporation, Gilbert, Ariz., have installed the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instrument back onto to the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft. With both the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and TIRS instruments now on the spacecraft, LDCM is a complete observatory.
Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
Cambridge City Council has used a digital map of trees, created by aerial mapping company Bluesky, to inform tree planting and management across the historic city. As part of a wider project to address the effects of climate change the specially commissioned ProximiTREE data replaced a more traditional tree audit to determine which trees already
Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
Safe Software, makers of FME and the leaders in spatial data transformation technology, today announced the release of FME 2012 Service Pack 3 (SP3), which features compatibility with Esri’s newly released ArcGIS 10.1 and support of Autodesk’s 2013 version of AutoCAD Map 3D. FME 2012 SP3’s timely support of the latest versions of these industry-leading
Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) today announced the successful launch of exactView-1 at UTC 06:41:39 into a sun synchronous polar orbit of 800km by a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
Esri Canada today announced that Calgary Co-op, one of the largest retail co-operatives in North America, will leverage the Esri Business Analyst (Canadian Edition) solution to improve strategic planning. Powered by Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) technology combined with extensive demographic and segmentation information, the solution will enable the retailer to efficiently map their stores, integrate
Saturday, July 21st, 2012
Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) introduced today the Trimble® Positions™ Mobile extension – a new streamlined choice for integrating Trimble’s GNSS professional field solutions and data verification into the Esri ArcGIS for Windows Mobile environment.
Saturday, July 21st, 2012
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC GeoServices REST API standard. The GeoServices REST Application Programming Interface (API) provides a standard way for web clients to communicate with geospatial technologies, such as Geographic Information System (GIS) servers, based on Representational State Transfer (REST) principles.
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012
For the first time, about 70 percent of a country has been mapped using an advanced remote sensing technique known as hyperspectral imaging. In order to assist Afghanistan in understanding their abundant natural resources, in particular the development of an economically viable minerals market, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Department of Defense Task Force
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
Advanced mine monitoring system is helping geotechnical engineers predict potentially dangerous pit movements at the largest goldmine in Latin America. Installed at Newmont Mining Corporation’s Minera Yanacocha gold mine in northern Peru, 3D Laser Mapping’s SiteMonitor system continuously monitors one of the six active pits. Using state of the art laser scanners the system can
