Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
MULTIROTOR distances itself as the B2B world market leader for professional micro drones in industry, documentation and surveying from the threat to the air traffic caused by the misuse of a drone in Paris. As reported, a pilot of an Airbus A320 had to avoid an obstructing drone during the landing approach at the airport
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
Watertown, Mass. — VHB announces that it has purchased the assets of Fountains Spatial, Inc., a leading provider of geographic information system (GIS) services located in Schenectady, New York. Fountains Spatial President Larry Spraker, a nationally-recognized expert in the development of web-based GIS applications using Esri technology, and Vice President Austin Fisher, a 20-year GIS industry
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
CAPE cANAVERAL aIR foRCe station, Fla., March 9, 2016 — The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) delivered the fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on March 3, prior to its expected May launch. The spacecraft will be the third MUOS satellite launched in a 16-month
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
The UK Space Agency’s (UKSA) International Partnership Space Programme (IPSP) supported a workshop on geo-information platforms to aid the forest sector in Mexico, as part of the “Advancing Earth Observation Applications for Forests” project, co-ordinated by Ecometrica. The meeting was held in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas and was attended by delegates from over
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
Heavy city traffic contributes significantly to air pollution and health problems such as asthma, but University of Texas at Dallas researchers think another kind of traffic — data traffic — might help citizens better cope with pollution. “Online maps are accessed millions of times daily by people using computers and mobile devices to find the
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
While many students returned from the semester break with stories of vacations taken or jobs worked, Boston College freshman Branick Weix had something unusual and inspiring to share: his weeklong trip to Costa Rica to help researchers track endangered sea turtles. Through his company, SkyLink Productions, the Minnesota native partnered with the nonprofit group Seeds
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
Innovapptive Inc., a leading provider of SAP® Mobile and User experience software and solutions, and Critigen, a full-lifecycle spatial systems integrator, today announced a technology partnership in geospatial integration and mobility to deliver market-leading technologies for enterprises looking to help SAP customers take advantage of geospatial system integration capabilities. “Critigen helps clients integrate geospatial technologies with
Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
8 March 2016 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has announced the recent successful completion of the OGC Incident Management Information Sharing Internet of Things Pilot Project (IMIS IoT Pilot). The IMIS IoT Pilot was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the IJIS Institute. The project
Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
Skybox Imaging, acquired by Google in 2014, is now Terra Bella. Introducing Terra Bella Seven years ago, we started Skybox Imaging with the vision of a new era in space technology. Small satellites with big capabilities are no longer a dream. Today, two years and nearly 100,000 images separate us from the launch of our
Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
The three instruments on the Sentinel-3A satellite are now offering a tantalising glimpse of what’s in store for Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring effort. The latest images, which feature Europe and Antarctica, come from the sensor that records Earth’s radiant energy. Launched just three weeks ago, Sentinel-3A carries a suite of cutting-edge instruments to provide systematic
