Tuesday, November 1st, 2016
HUNT VALLEY, MD – Textron Systems Unmanned Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) business, announced today that the company will now offer the TK-7 Firewatch precision survey sensor on the Aerosonde™ Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) after its recent successful demonstration in Blackstone, Va. Developed by Overwatch Imaging, LLC., the TK-7 Firewatch multi-spectrum precision survey
Monday, October 31st, 2016
Eos Systems Inc. has introduced new photogrammetry software optimized specifically for photographs taken with drones or unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The new PhotoModeler UAS 2016 creates 3D models, measurements, and maps from photographs taken with ordinary cameras built-in or mounted on drones. It has numerous features for operation with drone photos, including post processing kinematics (PPK),
Monday, October 31st, 2016
Developed and maintained by the product team for years, SuperSurv is one of the core products of Supergeo. By integrating GIS and GPS perfectly, SuperSurv can help field workers to collect, display, edit, and manage spatial data with ease, and it is available on both two mainstream mobile operating systems: Android and iOS. Last month,
Monday, October 31st, 2016
Neustrelitz, Germany – After signing respective agreements with ESA and Antrix, the commercial arm of ISRO, GAF as the prime contractor in cooperation with DLR has upgraded the ground station in Neustrelitz to accommodate the reception of data from the Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) aboard the Oceansat-2 Indian remote sensing (IRS) satellite. The integration and
Monday, October 31st, 2016
Herndon, Virginia Oct. – The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) has launched the EdGEOcation Giving Campaign to raise money and awareness for USGIF’s educational programs. The Foundation has set the goal to raise $5,000 by Dec. 31. USGIF’s educational activities include awarding scholarships to students studying geospatial sciences, providing academic certificates to students who
Monday, October 31st, 2016
Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, has finished construction of the first of the two GRACE-FO (GRACE = Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, FO = Follow-On) satellites in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The satellite will now be transferred to Ottobrunn near Munich for several months of operational testing in the IABG test centre.
Monday, October 31st, 2016
REDLANDS, Calif. — Global smart mapping leader Esri will continue its long-standing support of Code for America by sponsoring the 2016 Code for America Summit, which will take place November 1 to 3, in Oakland, California. Each year, Code for America brings together leaders in the civic technology community to discuss the new ways technology
Monday, October 31st, 2016
Rueil-Malmaison, France– Hypack chose the Ellipse-D inertial navigation system to equip their new UAV-based surveying solution: the NEXUS 800. The NEXUS 800 is an out of the box turnkey system that tightly integrates hardware and software to provide an advanced and seamless solution for LiDAR survey planning, data acquisition, post processing and analysis, and product
Friday, October 28th, 2016
ARLINGTON, Va.- CACI International Inc (NYSE: CACI) announced today that it has been awarded a prime position on the Full-Motion Video (FMV) functional area of the Multi-Intelligence Analytical and Collection Support Services (MACSS) multiple-award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The company has also been awarded a five-year,
Friday, October 28th, 2016
At this year’s IBM World of Watson event in Las Vegas, global smart mapping leader Esri announced that it now works with IBM users and developers to broaden the customer experience by making Esri data and technology available in the IBM cloud. IBM customers can now use Esri maps, data, geospatial tools, and analytical services
