Monday, December 6th, 2010
ITT Corporation announced its agreement to purchase the business operations of EchoStorm Worldwide. The privately held EchoStorm delivers innovative video and data management technology for military, government, and commercial applications. EchoStorm, founded in 2003, provides a suite of secure, net-centric commercial products that enables users to capture, manage, and disseminate full-motion video in near real
Monday, December 6th, 2010
GNSS market forecasting is of great interest to private and public GNSS stakeholders, for business and strategic planning and policymaking. According to the new GSA report, the market for GNSS will grow significantly over the next decade, reaching in 2020 up to €244 billion for the overall GNSS enabled market (accounting for the full retail
Sunday, December 5th, 2010
The integrated surface gas monitoring solution provides consultants and landfill operators with an end-to-end solution. Field samples are recorded with GPS coordinates in real time during the field survey, which can then be transferred from the Trimble SiteFID monitor software on the handheld to back-office compliance applications for further analysis and reporting. The Trimble SiteFID meets
Sunday, December 5th, 2010
The German Federal Government adopted a new space strategy at its cabinet meeting on 30 November 2010. The paper defines the fundamentals of how the high-technology space sector is to develop over the next few years at a national level and in so doing, how it must respond to changing political and societal conditions on
Sunday, December 5th, 2010
A Russian Proton-M carrier rocket will deliver three Glonass-M satellites into the orbit on Sunday, completing the forming of the global navigation system, a representative of Russian space agency Roscosmos has said. The rocket will blast off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at 03:25pm local time (10:25 GMT), he said. Read More
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
ESDIN was well represented at the GSDI 12 conference in Singapore in October. Laila Aslesen (WP 5) shared her thoughts at the end of her team’s work on licensing models for a European Spatial Data Infrastructure. The presentations below take you from the background through the approach to the conclusions of this work. They then go on to
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®), as part of its lead role in the Architecture Implementation Pilot for theGlobal Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), announced videos showing the remarkable progress that has been made in implementing GEOSS. GEOSS is a major multi-year program of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). The videos were prepared for
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
GeoFly GmbH has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft® company, to purchase an UltraCamLp photgrammetric digital aerial camera system. Innovative hardware, electronics and software result in a lighter, more compact camera system, so it is suitable for smaller aircraft and projects requiring a rapid response. However, the camera provides the same high geometric accuracy,
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Envista Corporation announced it has secured $4.1M from seven investors toward a $7.6 million equity-based funding round. The company’s initial investors included New England-based Borealis Ventures (Hanover, NH), Egan-Managed Capital (Boston, MA), and Point Judith Capital (Providence, RI). Envista will leverage the capital to fund business expansion and product development to meet global demands to
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
DigitalGlobe announced it has finalized the judging panel for its inaugural 8-Band Research Challenge. The judges, respected scientists from around the world, will be responsible for reviewing final submissions and selecting the 15 papers that best exemplify sound science and innovative applications of 8-band, high-resolution imagery. Winners will be announced on December 16 and invited
