Monday, December 17th, 2018
Last night at the December meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Technical Committee in Charlotte, North Carolina, OGC’s outgoing President & CEO, Mark Reichardt, was awarded a special edition of OGC’s prestigious Kenneth D. Gardels Award. The Gardels Award is presented each year to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to advancing
Monday, December 17th, 2018
VIENNA – The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and Airbus Defence and Space have issued a Call for Interest (CFI) to United Nations Member States for an orbital opportunity utilizing the Airbus Bartolomeo external platform on the International Space Station (ISS). The mission will offer institutions from participating Member States the opportunity
Monday, December 17th, 2018
WASHINGTON – Non-profit Radiant Earth Foundation announced today that its Founder and CEO, Anne Hale Miglarese, has been appointed to the Federal Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing (ACCRES) to serve for the next two years. The ACCRES Charter is as an expert and independent advisory body. ACCRES members evaluate economic, technological, and institutional developments
Thursday, December 13th, 2018
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2018 – Non-profit Radiant Earth Foundation announced today that its Founder and CEO, Anne Hale Miglarese, has been appointed to the Federal Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing (ACCRES) to serve for the next two years. The ACCRES Charter is as an expert and independent advisory body. ACCRES members evaluate economic, technological,
Tuesday, December 11th, 2018
AMSTERDAM THE NETHERLANDS, 11 December 2018– Organizers of the third annual Commercial UAV Expo Europe have announced the 2019 Conference Programme and initial list of confirmed presenters and panelists. Commercial UAV Expo Europe takes place 8-10 April in Amsterdam, with pre-conference programming and workshops on Monday 8 April followed by conference programming and exhibits on
Monday, December 10th, 2018
The launch of the self-driving ‘drone car’ Pop.Up Next attracted a great deal of attention from the world’s media, as did the FormulePFV DroneRacing event. Another major highlight was the fact that the European Commission, European and national authorities together with the industry adopted the Declaration of Amsterdam to advance safe, secure and green drone
Monday, December 10th, 2018
WASHINGTON – The National Alliance for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation Board of Directors is pleased to announce Joshua Dozor of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Stephen Lai of the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, as recipients of the 2018 Award for Excellence in Public Safety GIS. Awards were presented at a special reception
Monday, December 10th, 2018
Last Friday was a record-breaking day for golf enthusiasts world-wide. Two of the world’s best golfers, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, participated in a one-on-one golf duel. Having scored 19 majors between the two of them, they competed for a $9 million grand prize on the Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas. The event
Monday, December 10th, 2018
Toulouse – MapTiler, a maps API (Application Programming Interface) developed by the Swiss company Klokan Technologies, has been named the winner of Airbus Multi-Data Challenge organised as part of the Copernicus Masters 2018. Klokan Technologies receives a voucher worth € 100,000 for the acquisition of satellite data and will benefit from both technical and business coaching. MapTiler provides ads-free personalized maps and can
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018
BERKELEY, Calif. – New Light Technologies (NLT) was the primary sponsor of this year’s second annual Geo4Dev conference, organized by the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), a hub for global development research at UC Berkeley. On November 15, 2018, the event brought together the country’s leading geospatial experts in conversation about the today’s role of GIS
