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Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

Norwegian Microsatellite Built by Space Flight Laboratory Deploys First-of-Kind Yagi Antenna for VHF Data Exchange from Space

TORONTO, Ontario, Canada  – The Norwegian Space Centre has announced successful deployment of critical antennas and probes on the NORsat-1 and NORsat-2 microsatellites built by Canada’s Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) and launched on July 14 from Kazakhstan. Most notable was deployment of a large Yagi antenna from NORsat-2 that will provide first-of-its-kind VHF Data Exchange

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

MDA Signs Contract Amendment with US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to Provide Information Solution to Support Flight Operations at Airports

VANCOUVER – MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX:MDA), a global communications and information company, today announced that it has signed a contract amendment with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for its Geospatial Terminal Operations (GTO) requirement.  MDA will provide an additional year of software systems and services to automate the production of

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

Shaping the Future of Spatial Data Management and Analytics

Karlsruhe, Germany, 25/07/2017: DISY Informationssysteme GmbH will be celebrating its 20th anniversary at this year’s INTERGEO, which takes place in Berlin from September 26 to 28. For two decades, the Karlsruhe-based company has been associated with smart GIS and reporting solutions made in Germany. At the world’s largest trade fair for geodesy, spatial data and

Monday, July 24th, 2017

Harris Corporation to Announce Fourth Quarter Results on Tuesday, August 1, 2017

MELBOURNE, Fla.-Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) will host a conference call on Tuesday, August 1, 2017, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) to discuss its fourth quarter fiscal year 2017 financial results. The company will issue a press release reporting its fourth quarter results at approximately 6:30 a.m. ET. The dial-in numbers for the teleconference are (877)

Monday, July 24th, 2017

Navistar’s IoT Deployment on Cloudera Wins TDWI 2017 Best Practices Award

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Cloudera, Inc. (NYSE: CLDR), the leading provider of the modern platform for machine learning and advanced analytics, announced that TDWI, the leading global provider of analytics and data management research and education, has named Navistar‘s Internet-of-Things (IoT) deployment of Cloudera a winner of the 2017 Best Practices Award

Monday, July 24th, 2017

INTERGEO – Bridge to a Digital Future

Karlsruhe/Berlin, 24, July 2017 | When geo IT experts from the worlds of business and science sat down together at a roundtable for INTERGEO and got talking, they put together a picture of geo IT’s significance and role at the present time and looking ahead as the transformation to a digital future takes shape. The

Monday, July 24th, 2017

Kuwait’s Public Authority of Industry Wins Int’l Award for GIS App

KUWAIT – Kuwait’s Public Authority Of Industry (PAI) said on Tuesday it had won a distinguished achievement award in the field of geographic information systems (GIS). The award, described by PAI as a “great achievement,” was presented by the leading international company, ‘ESRI’, at its annual conference held recently in San Diego. Eng. Younis Al-Khilaifi

Monday, July 24th, 2017

What Happened at LiDAR for Drone 2017 – YellowScan User Conference

LiDAR for Drone 2017 – YellowScan International User Conference was held on the 29th and 30th of June, in the Château de Flaugergues, Montpellier. For this special event, YellowScan had put together a diverse and exciting agenda, proving the broad usage of YellowScan LiDAR equipment in applications such as archeology, forestry, powerlines, surveying, mining and civil

Friday, July 21st, 2017

DroneDeploy Partners with SLANTRANGE and Sentera to Provide Accurate Crop Health Analysis Using Near-Infrared and Multispectral Sensors

SAN FRANCISCO, CA –  DroneDeploy, the leading drone software platform, today announced new capabilities to help growers perform more accurate plant health analysis and process high-quality maps during all stages of crop growth. Growers can now use DroneDeploy to create field maps using sensors designed for agriculture, including Sentera near-infrared and SLANTRANGE calibrated multi-spectral sensors.

Friday, July 21st, 2017

URISA Board Candidates Announced

Des Plaines, IL – URISA’s Leadership Development Committee recently presented its recommended slate of candidates to the URISA Board of Directors. The Board approved the slate, listed below, for its 2017 election. Those elected will begin their three-year Board terms following  GIS-Pro 2017 in Jacksonville, Florida this October. URISA is pleased to present the following list of