Friday, January 13th, 2017
Herndon, Virginia —The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) CEO Keith J. Masback was reappointed to a second three-year term as a member of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee ( NGAC). He was also reappointed as NGAC’s Vice Chair. The NGAC provides recommendations to the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), the interagency executive group responsible
Friday, January 13th, 2017
NACKA STRAND, Sweden — Hexagon AB, a leading global provider of information technologies that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial enterprise applications, today announced the following organisational changes: Gerhard Sallinger has been appointed new Senior Vice President of Strategic Alliances for Hexagon and Mattias Stenberg has been appointed President of PPM. Mr. Sallinger
Friday, January 13th, 2017
DALLAS & FORT WORTH, Texas — Mouser Electronics Inc., along with Easy Aerial Inc. and celebrity engineer Grant Imahara, today launched the final episode of the unique project from the latest series in the Empowering Innovation Together™ program. Project First Responders showcases the proof of concept for an autonomous, cloud-based drone platform used for search
Friday, January 13th, 2017
The Oracle Spatial and Graph SIG user group is partnering with Oracle’s Business Intelligence, Warehousing, and Analytics (BIWA) SIG on the Oracle Spatial + BIWA Summit: THE Big Data + Analytics + Spatial + Cloud + IoT + Everything Cool User Conference (http://www.biwasummit.org). The event takes place at Oracle’s headquarters in Redwood Shores, California from
Thursday, January 12th, 2017
12 January 2017 – Transmitting large volumes of data in near real time through space at a rate of 1.8 gigabytes per second based on laser technology since November 23rd, the “SpaceDataHighway” is one of the most ambitious and forward-looking communication systems in operation today. To foster further innovation and enlarge the application portfolio, Airbus
Thursday, January 12th, 2017
January 12, 2017 (Portland, Maine, USA) – The organizers of International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF), the world’s leading technical conference and expo covering the newest airborne, terrestrial and underwater LiDAR as well as emerging remote-sensing and data collection tools and technologies, announced the 2017 keynote lineup today. The event takes place February 13-15 in Denver
Thursday, January 12th, 2017
MAPPS, the national association for private sector geospatial firms, today announced it has recognized twelve individuals for their significant contributions to the association and the geospatial profession for 2016. MAPPS President, Susan Marlow, Stantec, recognized the following Presidential Award recipients: •Bob Hanson, Michael Baker International, for his service as MAPPS Treasurer, A/E Forum Chair, Board
Wednesday, January 11th, 2017
DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), the global leader in Earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced the successful results of the first SpaceNet Challenge and the next phase of the initiative. SpaceNet is a forward-leaning collaboration between DigitalGlobe, CosmiQ Works, and NVIDIA, which consists of an online repository of freely available satellite imagery,
Tuesday, January 10th, 2017
Des Plaines — This year, the theme is disaster response. The challenge is to develop a map which shows us how GIS could be, or has been used in a disaster response scenario, either real or imagined. Maps could show disaster preparation; use of GIS during a disaster to manage emergencies, people, supplies, etc.; or
