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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016

Trimble Reports Third Quarter 2016 Results

SUNNYVALE, Calif.– Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) today announced financial results for the third quarter of 2016. Third Quarter 2016 Financial Summary Third quarter 2016 revenue of $584.1 million was up 4 percent as compared to the third quarter of 2015. Engineering and Construction revenue was $332.4 million, up 2 percent. Field Solutions revenue was $77.9 million,

Tuesday, November 1st, 2016

SLANTRANGE Agricultural Drone Mapping Data Now Compatible with DroneDeploy

SLANTRANGE, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation, drone-based remote sensing and analytics systems for agriculture, announced today a new integration solution, available immediately, to utilize SLANTRANGE data products within the DroneDeploy drone software platform. Utilizing DroneDeploy’s new “GeoTIFF Upload” feature, complete SLANTRANGE maps, which are processed at the point of collection, can now be directly

Tuesday, November 1st, 2016

Ola Rollén Under Investigation by Norwegian Authorities for Insider Trading Unrelated to Hexagon

NACKA STRAND, Sweden – Ola Rollén, Hexagon’s President and CEO, is currently under investigation for insider trading stemming from personal investments unrelated to Hexagon. The circumstances have been explained in this morning’s press release from Christian B Hjort and Erik Keiserud, Ola Rollén’s lawyers, arguing “that the charge is based on a misinterpretation of the

Tuesday, November 1st, 2016

Textron Systems Offers New Precision Survey Sensor on Aerosonde(TM) Small Unmanned Aircraft System

HUNT VALLEY, MD – Textron Systems Unmanned Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) business, announced today that the company will now offer the TK-7 Firewatch precision survey sensor on the Aerosonde™ Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) after its recent successful demonstration in Blackstone, Va. Developed by Overwatch Imaging, LLC., the TK-7 Firewatch multi-spectrum precision survey

Monday, October 31st, 2016

Eos Introduces Photogrammetry Software for Drone Photography

Eos Systems Inc. has introduced new photogrammetry software optimized specifically for photographs taken with drones or unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The new PhotoModeler UAS 2016 creates 3D models, measurements, and maps from photographs taken with ordinary cameras built-in or mounted on drones. It has numerous features for operation with drone photos, including post processing kinematics (PPK),

Monday, October 31st, 2016

The Latest SuperSurv 3.3 for iOS Is Released!

Developed and maintained by the product team for years, SuperSurv is one of the core products of Supergeo. By integrating GIS and GPS perfectly, SuperSurv can help field workers to collect, display, edit, and manage spatial data with ease, and it is available on both two mainstream mobile operating systems: Android and iOS. Last month,

Monday, October 31st, 2016

GAF Operationally Provides Ocean Colour Data to ESA

Neustrelitz, Germany –  After signing respective agreements with ESA and Antrix, the commercial arm of ISRO, GAF as the prime contractor in cooperation with DLR has upgraded the ground station in Neustrelitz to accommodate the reception of data from the Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) aboard the Oceansat-2 Indian remote sensing (IRS) satellite. The integration and

Monday, October 31st, 2016

USGIF Launches EdGEOcation Giving Campaign

Herndon, Virginia Oct. – The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) has launched the EdGEOcation Giving Campaign to raise money and awareness for USGIF’s educational programs. The Foundation has set the goal to raise $5,000 by Dec. 31. USGIF’s educational activities include awarding scholarships to students studying geospatial sciences, providing academic certificates to students who

Monday, October 31st, 2016

Airbus Completes First GRACE-FO Satellite for NASA/JPL

Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, has finished construction of the first of the two GRACE-FO (GRACE = Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, FO = Follow-On) satellites in Friedrichshafen, Germany.  The satellite will now be transferred to Ottobrunn near Munich for several months of operational testing in the IABG test centre.

Monday, October 31st, 2016

Esri Sponsors 2016 Code for America Summit

REDLANDS, Calif.  — Global smart mapping leader Esri will continue its long-standing support of Code for America by sponsoring the 2016 Code for America Summit, which will take place November 1 to 3, in Oakland, California. Each year, Code for America brings together leaders in the civic technology community to discuss the new ways technology