Friday, April 15th, 2016
NEWTON MA (USA) – The Business Geography Specialty Group (BGSG) of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) announced the winners of the 2016 Student Paper Competition in Business Geography at the 2016 AAG Meeting in San Francisco, CA (March 29-April 2). The purpose of this competition is to promote scholarship and written and oral presentation
Friday, April 15th, 2016
Pre-launch preparations for the Sentinel-1B satellite, carrying an Airbus Defence and Space built radar instrument, are in full swing at Europe´s Kourou Spaceport in French Guiana. The satellite, which has Thales Alenia Space Italy as prime contractor, is set to be launched on 22 April 2016 by a Soyuz launcher. Airbus Defence and Space built
Thursday, April 14th, 2016
ARLINGTON, Va — The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) today released an interactive analysis that finds 38 types of business operations have been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly unmanned aircraft systems commercially in the National Airspace System (NAS). According to the report that analyzed more than 3,000 FAA exemptions, aerial
Thursday, April 14th, 2016
Cambridge, ON – exactEarth Ltd. (TSX: XCT) (“the Company”), the leading provider of Satellite AIS data services, today announces a Strategic Alliance Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Larus Technologies (“Larus”), an Ottawa-based provider of adaptive learning and predictive analytics software. Under the Agreement, the two companies will work together to develop and market Big Data analytics-based
Thursday, April 14th, 2016
New York, NY—A team led by Shree K. Nayar, T.C. Chang Professor of Computer Science at Columbia Engineering, has developed a novel sheet camera that can be wrapped around everyday objects to capture images that cannot be taken with one or more conventional cameras. The Columbia team, which includes research engineer Daniel Sims BS’14 and
Thursday, April 14th, 2016
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected Battelle, an independent, nonprofit research and development organization, to manage the construction, commissioning and initial operations of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). Battelle, with a long history of program management and scientific expertise, will help ensure NEON’s mission and its full scientific utility. For more information, please
Thursday, April 14th, 2016
Topcon GB & Ireland will be showcasing a range of cutting-edge technology designed to save time and create efficiencies at this year’s Geobusiness at the Business Design Centre in London (24-25th May). The Falcon 8 is Topcon’s 8 rotary-wing unmanned aerial system (UAS) and has been created to meet the challenges professionals face when
Thursday, April 14th, 2016
Palaiseau, near Paris, France, April 14, 2016 – Sofradir, the global leader in advanced infrared (IR) detectors for military, space and commercial applications, today announces it will mark its 30th anniversary as an industrial pioneer of high performance IR components at the international trade event SPIE DCS. This year Sofradir will unveil its extended Daphnis
Thursday, April 14th, 2016
To provide a graphical representation of cultural crimes committed by Daesh (also known as ISIS or ISIL) and other extremist organizations in the Middle East and North African region, the Antiquities Coalition partnered with Hexagon to create the Culture Under Threat Map. The interactive map program base includes current high-resolution satellite imagery maps and displays the destruction of
Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
NEW DELHI, India, and BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA — High-level leaders from several nations’ space agencies provided insider perspectives on programs for monitoring natural and manmade impacts on the environment, as featured speakers at the SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing symposium last week in New Delhi, 4-7 April. In a gathering unusual for including so many top-level
