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
Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the charter for a proposed OGC Standards Working Group (SWG). The new SWG will revise the Earth Observation Metadata profile of Observations & Measurements, an existing OGC standard for documenting Earth Observation (EO) product metadata. It will also develop a new, related standard to extend the
Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
1Spatial Group Limited today announced that 1Spatial Management Suite Version 1.0 and Radius Studio Version 2.3 have achieved Oracle Exadata Ready and Oracle Exalogic Ready status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). 1Spatial is a Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork.
Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s next generation of GOES satellites, beginning with GOES-R, will have the ability to take full-disk images of Earth at five-minute intervals. That means that GOES-R will be able to image everything it can see in the same length of time it takes the current GOES (short for Geostationary Operational
Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce its participation as an exhibitor at the SASGI Conference being held this year in Johannesburg on July 23-24.
Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
On Monday, July 8, the California Supreme Court ruled that Orange County must provide spatial databases to outside parties in their original form as complete electronic databases, such as a geodatabase, rather than simply in a readable version, such as a printed copy or a PDF file. The Court also decided that the data must
