Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
To speed up the user uptake of the European Union’s Earth observation programme Copernicus, the European Commission’s Copernicus Accelerator will now foster the development of commercial space applications and products. Tremendous amounts of data from space – especially the kind produced by Copernicus – present countless opportunities, and are becoming an increasingly common component of
Friday, July 1st, 2016
On the heels of Tuesday’s announcement by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) releasing its final Part 107 regulations governing small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS), MAPPS, the association of private sector surveying mapping and geospatial firms, today confirmed that Randy Willis, Manager of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Emerging Technologies Team with oversight of Unmanned Aircraft will be
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Deimos Imaging has been presented with the EARSC Company Achievement Award during the occasion of the pre General Assembly cocktail, held on 21st June in Brussels. EARSC has thereby recognised Deimos Imaging as the company to have made the most significant contribution to the development of the Earth Observation sector in Europe. The criteria used
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
For the first year, under the umbrella of the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation ConnectinGEO project, the EARSC competition “European EO product of the year” rewarded a company which has developed the most innovative product integrating an element of open data. During the whole process about 16 companies got interested in the award
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Hallowell, Maine – Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) today confirmed the locations for the remaining Global Mapper public training classes for 2016 as well as the date for rescheduled Blue Marble User Conference (BMUC) in Pittsburgh, PA. During the first six months of 2016, Blue Marble Applications Specialists conducted training classes in several cities throughout North
Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
REDLANDS, Calif.- This week, Esri presented Pinellas County, Florida, with the 2016 Enterprise GIS Award for innovating a smart community governance model. That model fulfilled county initiatives to build a public GIS with apps that benefit the community. One of those apps used Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) open data to save property owners $5.3
Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
Karlsruhe – “Hamburg has pulling power” – says Prof. Karl-Friedrich Thöne. The venue is perfect for INTERGEO. Why? An interview with DVW president and INTERGEO patron Thöne about the growing high-tech show and its diverse conference programme. INTERGEO 2015 in Stuttgart broke all the records in terms of exhibition space and visitor numbers. Are you
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
CASTLE ROCK, Colorado, 28 June 2016 – Commercial geospatial organizations worldwide are encouraged to participate in a first-of-its-kind Geospatial Marketing Intelligence Survey. The 6-minute online survey gives geospatial professionals the opportunity to report on the most effective marketing activities in their sector and geographic region of the geospatial community. www.surveymonkey.com/r/GeoMarketing The survey is being conducted
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
Heerbrugg,Switzerland, 28 June 2016 – Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Plan Contest. An annual highlight of the Geosystems Track at HxGN LIVE, the contest gives conference attendees the opportunity to showcase their best deliverables by submitting plans that demonstrate creativity and innovative problem solving with reality capture. The 2016
Monday, June 27th, 2016
Herndon, VA, June 27, 2016 —James Madison University’s (JMU) Department of Integrated Science and Technology in Harrisonburg, Va., was recently named an accredited program by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF). The department is now offering the USGIF GEOINT Certificate to students achieving a bachelor’s degree from either JMU’s geographic science (GS) or intelligence
