Friday, August 3rd, 2018
The Navy announced today that its next generation narrowband satellite communication system has been approved for expanded operational use by U.S. Strategic Command. The authorization paves the way for Navy and Marine Corps early-adopter commands to use the system on deployment as early as this fall, primarily in the Pacific theater. The Navy’s on-orbit, five-satellite
Friday, August 3rd, 2018
WESTMINSTER, Colo.- Maxar Technologies (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.) (NYSE: MAXR; TSX: MAXR), a leading global provider of advanced space technology solutions for commercial and government markets, commends the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on the approval of a new bill that would simplify and bring clarity to regulations in the remote
Friday, August 3rd, 2018
DENVER – With drones becoming an increasingly common worksite tool, Komatsu has identified aerial mapping and analytics as a key component of their Smart Construction initiative—a range of integrated hardware and software products designed to offer an end-to-end workflow for each phase of construction. “A Komatsu Smart Construction jobsite by definition is technology enhanced and production
Friday, August 3rd, 2018
REDLANDS, Calif.- Exciting new uses for GIS around the world were celebrated at the thirty-eighth annual Esri User Conference in San Diego, California, held July 9–13. Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, recognized users of the company’s technology who are changing their organizations as well as the world around them. One particular set of
Friday, August 3rd, 2018
SANTA MONICA, Calif.– Today, AirMap, the world’s leading airspace management platform for drones, announced that its UTM services are being deployed by Air Navigation Services of the Czech Republic (ANS CR) to deliver situational awareness and authorization capabilities to the country’s growing community of drone operators. ANS CR is deploying AirMap UTM to manage authorizations for
Friday, August 3rd, 2018
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Founded in 1999, GEO Jobe is a geospatial industry leader that currently has the top three most popular apps in the ArcGIS Marketplace including Admin Tools for ArcGIS Online, Mapfolio, and MapLapse. Additionally, With a fleet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and 5 licensed pilots, GEO Jobe offers high resolution, low altitude
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
The first partnership communication meeting of United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) was held in Deqing, China on 24 July 2018. Representatives from more than 40 enterprises attended the meeting. As the first partnership communication meeting held by UNWGIC Secretariat, it aimed to select qualified enterprises and public institutions as partners for the preparation
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
Redlands, California—Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the World Bank, an international organization with the mission to reduce global poverty. Under the agreement, Esri software geoenables the World Bank’s Survey Solutions software, allowing staff to improve accuracy and quicken the kinds
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
LAS VEGAS – The Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) today announced the launch of the Nevada Drone Center of Excellence for Public Safety (NDCOE). The mission is to save lives and reduce air hazards from drone incursions by empowering a shared safety vision with the FAA’s integration of drones into the commercial air traffic system.
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – NSR’s Big Data Analytics via Satellite, 2nd Edition report, published today, finds downstream Big Data solutions continue on a sustained growth path over the next decade, largely driven by Earth Observation and M2M/IoT applications in several key markets. Big Data analytics via satellite will generate close to $18.1 billion in cumulative revenues by
