Thursday, July 7th, 2016
Redlands, California —The National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) has selected Esri Education Manager Charlie Fitzpatrick for its 2016 George J. Miller award. NCGE, a nonprofit organization with the mission of enhancing the status and quality of geography teaching and learning, grants the annual award to individuals who have demonstrated a lifetime of distinguished service
Thursday, July 7th, 2016
MELVILLE, N.Y. — BZ Media LLC announced today the second in its series of critical examinations of the hype and reality behind certain vertical commercial drone markets, “The Truth About Drones in Construction and Infrastructure Inspection.” The free report was commissioned by BZ Media and written and produced by Skylogic Research. The white paper can
Thursday, July 7th, 2016
Hallowell, Maine – Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting and delivering a LiDAR workshop at the upcoming International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) XXIII Congress in Prague, Czech Republic. This quadrennial event brings together thousands of specialists in photogrammetry, remote sensing, and spatial information science from throughout
Wednesday, July 6th, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announced that today marks the launch of the Multi-View Stereo 3D Mapping Challenge. The challenge aims to foster a community of participants that will produce a solution to accurately produce 3D mapping from satellite photos. “Numerous commercial
Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
Join MAPPS in beautiful Traverse City, Michigan for education and networking at the 2016 MAPPS Summer Conference! The 2016 MAPPS Summer Conference will be held at the Grand Traverse Resort in Traverse City, Michigan from July 16-20, 2016. RIEGL USA will be sponsoring the Monday Member/Principal Breakfast from 7:00 AM-8:00 AM. RIEGL USA
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
